Comparing_To_Major_Models_In_Organized_Crime

Comparing To Major Models In Organized Crime A Comparison Of Two Major Models of Organized Crime: The Smith’s Enterprise Model and The Block Model  To understand a model of organized crime there must first be an understanding of what organized crime is. The American Heritage Dictionary (2000) defines it as; “Widespread criminal activities, such as prostitution, interstate theft, or illegal gambling, that occur within a centrally controlled formal structure .” Many Scholars use varies attributes to not completely define but identify organized crime. Organized crime can then be identified as a group that has no ideological, are hierarchical, have limited/exclusive membership, are perpetuitous, use illegal violence, demonstrate a division of labor, are governed by a code of secrecy (Potter, p.1a). Assuming that both definitions are correct then Smith’s Enterprise Model and Block’s Enterprise and Power Syndicate Model can be defined under these terms; or can it' Smith’s Enterprise Model began with a man named Dwight Smith who wrote the book The Mafia Mystique in 1975. This model based the idea that organized crime was basically a normal business operation that performed in the illegal market. It was the fundamentals of entrepreneurship that led to the organized crime sector because it was based out of organized, crime, model, power, enterprise, syndicate, illegal, models, smith’s, goods, block, based, syndicates, potter, definition, violence, two, one, criminal, block’s, because, around, time, structure, services, over, new, labor, gain, division, closely, central, authority, york, understanding