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organized crime : criminal activity on the part of an organized and extensive group of people compare racketeering ...
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...
rico (racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act)
rico (racketeer influenced and corrupt organization act) A federal (or state) law designed to investigate, control and prosecute organized crime, and to combat the infiltration of organized crime into legitimate business. Source: FindLaw ...
gangland
gangland often attrib : the world of organized crime ...
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 ...
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...
Crime
Crime, is a word, of which the interpretation has varied with the philosophic bias of the writer; it has been described as the violation of a right, when considered in reference to the evil tendency of such violation, as regards the community at large, but this definition is too wide; and would include any evil act or movement whether or not it is punishable by law. The (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), s. 5, defines crime for the limited purposes of the Act as either felonies or specified offences or misdemeanours, while 'offence' means any act which is not a 'crime' and is punishable on indictment or summary conviction. In our law misdemeanour is generally used in cotradistinction to felony, and comprehends all indictable offences which do not amount to felony, as perjury, battery, libels, conspiracies, etc. see OFFENCE, and consult Russell on Crimes, and Mellor v. Denham, (1880) 5 QBD 467, and other cases decided upon the meaning of 'criminal cause or ...
organized
same as arranged as an organized tour...
signature crime
signature crime : any of two or more crimes that involve the use of a method, plan, or modus operandi so distinctive that it logically follows that the crimes must have been committed by the same person NOTE: Evidence of other criminal acts is usually not admissible against a defendant. Evidence of other crimes to prove that the crime in question is a signature crime committed by the defendant, however, is usually allowed. ...
substantive crime
substantive crime : a crime that does not have as an element the performance of some other crime : a crime that is not dependent on another [indicted and convicted of conspiracy to attempt to enter the bank and the substantive crime of attempting to enter the bank "United States v. Clay, 495 F.2d 700 (1974)"] called also substantive offense compare accessory, conspiracy ...
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