HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ESCALATING PHENOMENON OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS

Gheorghe Pîrvu and Darius Ilincuta
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Gheorghe Pîrvu: University of Craiova Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Darius Ilincuta: University of Craiova Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Annals of University of Craiova - Economic Sciences Series, 2011, vol. 1, issue 39, 144-151

Abstract: The history of mankind as a whole has proven that every time they appear and show major economic crisis, global exponential stage for development appear to various phenomena of crime, of poverty amid ancestral human population and the evil inclinations the detriment of his neighbor, for selfish economic advancement. And, as civilization develops, the same is climbing forms of the criminal manifestation of human potential. In the current economic crisis, organized crime knows a replay practices during the '30s economic crash, accompanied by absorption of "benefits" to the current technical discovery. In Romania, there is clearly upward trend in the field of organized crime, human trafficking, macroeconomic and financial crime, cyber crime and drug trafficking.

Keywords: organized crime; cybercrime; human trafficking; drug trafficking; macroeconomic and financial crime; money laundering; underground economy; the current economic crisis; economy and organized crime; illegal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E26 H26 K42 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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