ABSTRACT
In light of current levels of threat assessment applied by the EU to the phenomenon of organized crime and the importance this phenomenon has come to hold within the European Commission’s Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), this chapter will examine the origin and development of such discourse, as well as the policy responses adopted during its path from random police cooperation to a set of EU institutionalized policies. More specifically, this text argues that the EU anti-organized crime discourse is perfectly in line with the securizing trends of EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ).
