CHAPTER 13

Epistemology and Sources of Knowledge

Organized crime is to a significant extent whatever the law-makers declare; its scale is measured by what the criminal investigators and public prosecutors pursue. However, while the rule of law determines that which is categorized an organized criminal activity or an organized crime group, the law is not the only relevant factor. There must be predicate or on-the-ground conduct (i.e., evidence of facts of operation in the case of criminal activities and persistence in time in the case of organized crime groups or enterprises). Not any coalescing of individuals or the plans of any rogue individual mature into organized crime groups and acts. Crucial information about how to succeed must exist and ...

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