National Conference on Organized Crime - Workshop Leaders' Reports, Parts 1 and 2

• NCJ Number: 81691
• Author(s): W J Mulligan; J E Moore; K Muellenberg; W J Neill; W L Timmemy; S Bertucelli; R Blakey; D Harris; J Lynch; J T McGuire; H Meyerson
• Date Published: Unknown
• Length: 0 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice; National College of District Attorneys
• Publication Format: Film
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. 2 videotapes, 2 hours, 5 minutes, color, 1 inch - Part of the National Conference on Organized Crime held in Washington, DC on October 1-4, 1975.

Annotation

Workshop highlights focus on the roles of and tools available to criminal justice professionals in combating organized crime and recommended statutory changes and investigatory innovations.

Abstract

Workshop leaders reviewed the respective roles of the police, prosecution, courts, and corrections officials in the control of organized criminal activities; the use of civil remedies against criminal activities; the corruptive influence on government and business of organized crime; control of transnational economic organized criminal activity; the interrelationship between syndicated crime and white-collar crime; and organized theft and fencing and their control. Also addressed were needed statutory improvements in the control of crime, the structure and management of a criminal intelligence unit, the effectiveness and necessity of electronic and other surveillance-type devices in combating organized criminal activity, and the education and training needed to raise the efficiency of personnel assigned to organized crime law enforcement. Speakers from a number of groups supported similar recommendations: for better education of all law enforcement personnel and the public on the nature of organized crime, for coordination of efforts among agencies and governments at all levels including the international, for better information and intelligence, for tougher sentencing of convicted offenders and more stringent penalties for corrupted officials, for support of wiretap laws, and for adequate resource allocation. The report on current crime trends documented regional expansion of all forms of organized crime to areas of the country where they were formerly not prevalent. For conference sessions, see NCJ 81673. For major addresses, see NCJ 81676, 81679, 81683, and 81686.