Causes Of Organised Crime

The main goal of organised criminal groups is profit, so there are issues with crime syndicates being involved in illegal logging, cybercrime, piracy, and more. However these examples are less relevant in cities. The most pertinent activities affecting urban areas due to organised crime are trafficking in drugs, light weapons, humans; violence; and corruption. Drugs

Some organised crime groups use the drug trade as one of many methods of profiting financially (for example, the American mafia), and some are completely dedicated to making money through drug trafficking, such as the drug cartels in Mexico. Drugs are often produced in rural areas, smuggled across borders, and sold in urban areas by the criminal groups.

There are many effects

Cities are major areas of both origin and destination for those forced into human trafficking. Evidently, the practice denies people their basic human rights and dignity and is one of the main reasons why organised crime cannot be allowed to continue.

Use of violence

Violence is a powerful tool in organised crime. As well as being used for financial gain though extortion; violence is used for coercion (making someone do something through threat and force). Crime syndicates will often have complete control over a particular neighbourhood, and the means by which they achieve this is through the threat of torture and/or death of people and their families.

Loyalty is bought by making an example of those who try to leave or those who betray the group. Violence is explicitly carried out against either the person who tried to leave or their family, meaning current perpetrators, recruits and witnesses of organised crime will not try to do the same for fear of the same

In LEDCs, where there is more poverty and fewer jobs, people are much more vulnerable to recruitment by criminal organisations and the exploitation by these groups. Countries with less economic development and unjust governments will also find it more difficult to fight organised crime due to poorer law enforcement services, poor government legislation, more corruption and poor border controls. In addition, for states going through civil wars or governmental reform, the lack of state control means criminal groups can flourish much more