• DOI:10.1177/073401688300800209
Corpus ID: 144389146

The Organized Crime Continuum: A Further Specification of a New Conceptual Model

@article{Hagan1983TheOC,
  title={The Organized Crime Continuum: A Further Specification of a New Conceptual Model},
  author={F. Hagan},
  journal={Criminal Justice Review},
  year={1983},
  volume={8},
  pages={52 - 57}
}

• F. Hagan
• Published 1983
• Sociology
• Criminal Justice Review

Endless and sometimes fruitless debate continues in the literature regarding a proper definition of organized crime as a concept. Much of this difficulty is associated with thefact that the concept has been viewed at a nominal level of measurement and the question asked: "Is this group and/or its operations an example of organized crime?" A neoteric, continuum (ordinal) model of the concept of "organized crime" suggests that such a question is futile and that an analogy can be drawn with other… Expand

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