Why Smaller/More Flexible Cell-Like Nodes and Networks?
While organized crime had been traditionally conceived as a secretive, rigorously structured, top-down controlled organization, the actual unlawful activities may be committed by much smaller groups linked loosely and transiently to larger organizations that covertly assist in providing resources and weapons. There is a downstream and upstream pathway to organized criminal activities, all of which attempt with more or less success in conveying a patina of legitimacy society wide. To be immediately perceived as illicit is to signal ominously to law enforcement agencies.
The tenuous links and pathways may be transnational. There’s little real patriotism to organized crime at high ...
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