Toward a Risk-Based Analysis of Organized Crime: The Experience of Canada.

In Canada, there is an active debate within law enforcement on how organized crimeshould be conceptualized. The old view of organized crime as generally ethnically based (alienconspiracy/pluralist model) and hierarchically structured is being challenged by the network andmarket/enterprise models that conceive of organized crime as fluid, entrepreneurial networks thatoperate across the illicit and licit sectors in the consensual exchange of goods and services. Thispaper offers a critique of the pluralist ethnic and bureaucratic/hierarchical models of organizedcrime and proposes a hybridized model comprised of the network and market/enterprise models.This hybridized model will form the theoretical foundation for the risk assessment methodologythat will take the place of the threat methodology that Criminal Intelligence Service Canada(CISC) currently uses to analyze organized crime. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]