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(451 mat) Â both terrorism and organized crime are related to one another provided examples 200 words please list references
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    Terrorism as we have learned over the past few weeks is sometimes a hard word to truly define and ultimately there is no set definition of the word across the globe.  This leads to there being a controversy on whether or not terrorism can be considered organized crime or if it is a crime of its own. More often than not, terrorist are not state led but extreme groups who have no nationality they pledge allegiance to other than their terrorist groups. With that being said the countries of where the terrorist are being harbored run into the issue of what to classify them because they do not fall under their law. Another issue that comes up that people seem to have confusion about is that criminal law acts out to for a finical gain whereas terrorist attack to get a message out. All of these attacks come at a price and need funding from somewhere. While terrorists might do illegal things to get money such as drug trade, human trafficking, armed robbery, the list really goes on and on, it does not take away from their main end goal of causing widespread panic and killing people.           We know what terrorism is but what is organized crime exactly? As stated on the FBIâs website organized crime units âconstantly seek to obtain power, influence, and monetary gainsâ 2. This sounds exactly like what terrorism is defined as minus the monetary gains part. But as stated previously, these attacks that terrorist carry out cost money so their actions when not carrying out attacks are criminal activities. The FBI also states that many of the groups of organized crime are throughout the world and can have âties to Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle Eastâ2.
           On the surface organized crimes and terrorism are two wrongs in the world that are being dealt with on a daily basis by the respective law enforcement agencies tasked with taking them down. But as readers dig deeper into the definitions and the reasoning behind actions taken by criminals it is easier to see that both terrorism and organized crime are related to one another. This goes to show from the week one forum post, why defining the term terrorism is so important.
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Reference:
Hoffman, Bruce. 2006. Inside Terrorism. New York: Columbia University Press. Accessed April 26, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central.
"Organized Crime." FBI. May 03, 2016. Accessed April 26, 2017. https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/organized-crime.
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