ABSTRACT
Organized crime implies that the criminality will extend beyond individual criminality and generally considered to be a group act. Another factor is the ability to survive the death or arrest of a gang leader. Many of these organized criminal groups conduct transnational criminal operations. They maintain alliances with other organized criminal groups to conduct their criminal activities or to protect them from other criminal groups. These groups engage in peripheral activities. Many of them are illegal, such as human trafficking, often for purposes of prostitution and slavery. The groups often have counterfeiters connected to them as well.
