Areas and consequences of organized crime influence on the legal market

Abstract

Criminal structure spread sphere of influence in all fields of social life and become a threat to national and international security. Namely, criminal profits generated by organized crime in the criminal market and its infiltration into the legal economic flows represent a potential danger for corrupting in legal economic relations and undermine the integrity of financial institutions. In this way, in the end the basic fundamentals of the financial system may be disrupted, and in dangerous are the functioning of state institutions, economic prosperity and national security. Modern criminal organizations are profit-oriented and market-based and operating methods that use are combination of criminal and methods of modern business organizations, which makes them particularly dangerous to society. The great economic power of organized crime used to acquire political power, and it is in turn used to pursue criminal objectives. Thus, the threat of organized crime is not limited to the effects of individual criminal actions, but much more on the ability to influence the decision making processes in the sphere of politics and economics. The great interest of organized crime to influence on state and its functions stems from the fact that with the help of the state authority can provide the easiest way for providing criminal profit and immunity from prosecution. The authors in paper point to areas and dominant negative consequences of the infiltration of organized crime into legitimate economic relations, as well as the implications of these processes in order to gain a better understanding of their importance for defining the model on fighting of organized crime.

Kriminalne stukture šire sfere uticaja na sva polja društvenog života i postaju opasnost po nacionalnu i međunarodnu bezbednost. Profit koji generiše organizovani kriminal na ilegalnom tržištu i njegova infiltracija u legalne ekonomske tokove narušava integritet finansijskih institucija. Na taj način osnovne postavke finansijskog sistema mogu biti narušene, a delovanje državnih institucija, ekonomski napredak i nacionalna bezbednost ugroženi. Savremene kriminalne organizacije su profitno orijentisane i tržišno ustrojene, a metodi delovanja koje koriste kombinacija su kriminalnih i metoda rada savremenih poslovnih organizacija, što ih čini posebno opasnim po društvo. Velika ekonomska moć organizovanog kriminala koristi se za sticanje političke moći, a ona se povratno koristi za ostvarivanje kriminalnih ciljeva. Autori u radu ukazuju na dominantne oblasti i konsekvence infiltracije organizovanog kriminala u legalne ekonomske odnose, kao i na implikacije ovih procesa u cilju što boljeg razumevanja njihovog značaja za definisanje modela suprostavljanja organizovanom kriminalu.