Description
Length: 2,500 words
TASK
ESSAY.
Instruction – Complete Part A AND Part B.
1. Select one question from Part A and address that question as required in the question text.
2. Part B of this assessment task is then to be completed in relation to the issues raised in Part A of your assignment.
PART A.
Questions for Part A (answer one question only). All subject readings are likely to be relevant for these topics.
1. Fijnaut et al., (1998, p. 28) argue that ‘…because of [the] differences in their modes of action, it is very important to distinguish between organised crime and organisational crime’. Discuss the differences between these two forms of crime, including the key characteristics of each, and why those characteristics are central to your preferred definitions of each?
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2. ‘If the significance into the next millennium of organised crime for Australia is to be understood, globalisation is the key’ (Findlay, 2000, p. 273). Explain globalisation and organised crime, and discuss why globalisation is thought to be the key to understanding organised crime in Australia?
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3. Based on your study of the readings and subject material on organised crime and terrorism AND also using additional research by you, define organised crime and terrorism and then explain any relationship, or lack thereof, between the two activities? (Include in the discussion at least three factors that differentiate between the two, and three that both groups can have in common.) Examples of organised crime or terrorism groups may be used to support your case.
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PART B.
In light of the organised crime issues highlighted by you in Part A of the assignment, discuss the advances experienced by law enforcement in relation to addressing organised crime in recent years, and the difficulties still faced by law enforcement agencies in combatting organised crime. Be sure to consider the impact that organised crime is having on the societal security.
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· Research and identify the historical development of organised crime to explain current nature and extent.
· Examine the impact/relationship of globalisation on organised crime and identify its impact/relationship on trafficking, gangs, narcotics and terrorism.
· Analyse and report on the impact of organised crime on democracy, outlining current practices of disruption and difficulties to still be faced.