ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the infiltration of civil society by organised crime groups and describes how the dumping incident created the opening for organisations to exploit victims, essentially criminalising resistance. The attractiveness of victimhood to local members of the community could be based on two premises. The first is that they have indeed been the victim of the state-corporate crime and seek recognition of this fact, and the second is the promise of a future claim for compensation. The chapter explores the relationship between the nation-state and various forms of organised crime, "which ultimately defines organised crime's power, character and persistence". As the perpetrators of an organisational crime, they are two actors in one interrelationship. The rules that have been violated include domestic law and the dictates of social morality as judged from the point of view of the relevant social audience.
