... organized crime, including undercover operations, electronic surveillance techniques, and coordinated investigations under RICO and Continuing Criminal Enterprise statutes (Ashley, 2003). Like other federal agencies, they can also negotiate proffer arrangements to encourage gang members to provide...

... associated with organised crime (co-offending, commission of specific offences, three years imprisonment or more). The 4,109 “organized crime” offenders, identified by the process, were compared with “general” and “serious” offender control groups across a variety of personal and demographic variables...

...Jerry H. Ratcliffe; Steven J. Strang; Ralph B. Taylor Purpose – Expert assessment of organized crime (OC) group capabilities is often the basis for national threat assessments; it is rare, however, for variations in collective expert opinions of OC success factors to be systematically evaluated...

... approach can be considerably more sophisticated as well. […] retaining organized crime groups as distinct units of analysis, and indeed a key focus of police targeting strategies, is a fundamental requirement for the success of enriching both analysis and law enforcement responses (Vander Beken, 2004...

... and Southern European organized crime groups in cocaine distribution. This observation has the potential to precipitate the growth of cocaine markets in Poland as the transit routes through the country become well traveled. With the continued influx of drugs being trafficked into and out of the country...