Criminal Syndicalism

criminal syndicalism : advocacy of unlawful means (as acts of violence) to bring about a change in industry or government compare sabotage, sedition ...

syndicalism [French syndicalisme, from (chambre) syndicale trade union, from chambre chamber + syndicale, feminine of syndical of or relating to a syndic or to a committee that assumes the powers of a syndic, from syndic government office] : a doctrine or practice promoting the revolutionary seizure of government and industry see also criminal syndicalism ...

syndicate

syndicate [French syndicat the office or jurisdiction of a syndic] 1 : a group organized to carry out a particular transaction or enterprise 2 : an association of organized criminals [sin-di-kāt] vb -cat·ed -cat·ing vt : to form or manage as or through a syndicate [a syndicated tax shelter] vi : to unite to form a syndicate syn·di·ca·tion [sin-di-kā-shən] n ...

racketeering

racketeering 1 : the extortion of money or advantage by threat or force 2 : a pattern of illegal activity (as extortion and murder) that is carried out in furtherance of an enterprise (as a criminal syndicate) which is owned or controlled by those engaged in such activity see also Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in the Important Laws section compare organized crime ...

sabotage

sabotage [French, from saboter to clatter with wooden shoes, botch, sabotage, from sabot wooden shoe] 1 : the willful destruction of an employer's property or the hindering of normal operations by other means 2 : the injury, destruction, or knowingly defective production of materials, premises, or utilities used for war or national defense compare criminal syndicalism, sedition ...

sedition

sedition [Latin seditio, literally, separation, from sed apart + itio act of going, from ire to go] : the crime of creating a revolt, disturbance, or violence against lawful civil authority with the intent to cause its overthrow or destruction compare criminal syndicalism, sabotage se·di·tious [-shəs] adj se·di·tious·ly adv ...

Organised crime

Organised crime, in Europe, the terms 'organised crime' and 'professional crime' are largely inter-changeable. As compared to American standards, the European criminal orgainsations are small-scale and short-lived. Such crimes are defined as involving system of specifically defined relation-ship with mutual obligation and privileges and association of a small group of criminals for the execution of the intended crime. The eruption of organised crime in India is of recent origin and is at the initial stage. It is the need of the hour to control such criminal activities which tempt the persons involved to amass huge profit. Such crimes have not only a legal facet but have a social and economic aspect which is required to be felt and dealt with by all concerned including the judiciary, the executive, the politicians, the social reformers, the intelligentsia and the law enforcing agency, State of Maharashtra v. Bharat Chaganlal Raghani, (2001) 9 SCC 1.Means any continuing unlawful activity...

Seize

Seize, the word means taking in physical custody, Textile Traders Syndicate Ltd., Bulandshahr v. State of U.P., AIR 1960 All 405 (407). (Criminal PC, 1898, s. 550)To forcibly take possession (of a person or property), Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1363....

organized crime

Groups of persons organized for illegal purposes such as bootlegging conducting illegal gambling loansharking extortion etc a general term encompassing most forms of criminal groups but especially those that are consolidated into ldquofamiliesrdquo more or less recognizing each others different regions of operation sometimes considered synonymous with the mafia or the syndicate...

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