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Organized crime in war disaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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Conventional organized crimes mostly appear in organized societies. Traditionally it has been assumed that organized crime is part of the social system, thus any social disorganization should tend to frustrate its normal development and function. However, it has been experienced, that a disruption of the normal flow of social order does not lead necessarily to a decline of organized crime as a whole, but rather creates new distinctive criminal forms adapted to the disorganized aspects of society. Some criminal organizations, structured to the regularities of an organized society, cannot prosper any longer, because the change of the social organization to a disorganized state deprives them of their originally designed goals, targets and methods of achievement. Some others are able to continue functioning by adjusting their activities to the changed arena. But, also, new criminal organizations may develop, born in and by the processes of social change, stemming from newly born opportunities and also from a disorganization-caused dislocation of the traditional value-system. One of the most striking impacts that results in the disintegration of a traditional social order, and may disorganize and reorganize the conventional organized crime, is disaster; more specifically war-disaster.

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Première Partie: Doctrine: II — Mémoires
Copyright
Copyright © 1965 International Society for Criminology

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References

(1) Ralph-H. Turner, « Value-Conflict in Social Disorganization », Sociology and Social Research, vol. 38, 1954, pages 301-308.

(2) Fred-Charles Iklé, The Social Impact of Bomb Destruction, Oklahoma, 1958, page 143.

(3) Ibid., page 186.

(4) Ralph H. Turner and Lewis M. Killian, Collective Behavior, New-York, 1957, page 521.

(5) Charles-E. Fritz, « Disaster », in Robert-K. Merton and Robert-A. Nisbet, editors, Contemporary Social Problems, New York, 1961, page 675.

(6) Irving-L. Janis, « Psychological Effects of Warnings », in George-W. Baker and Dwight-W. Chapman, editors, Man and Society in Disaster, New York, 1962, page 74.

(7) Erving Goffman, « On Cooling the Mark Out, Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure », in Arnold-M. Rose, editor, Human Behavior and Social Processes, An Interactionist Approach, Boston, 1962, page 483.