Personal Perception of Organized Crime

Organized crime have been discuss this week as being are the illegal activities that are done by criminals for either money or profits of some sort. Organized crimes has also been defined basic crimes that are planned and executed by a group of individuals. There are quite a few characteristics that we have learned are associated with organized crime such as embezzlement, Mexican drug cartels, and selling of illegal goods.
When it comes to my perception of organized crimes based compared to the reading passages this week was exactly what I expected to be when I started the reading material. When I think of organized crimes I feel that it would always be more than one person involved. I discovered that during the reading that there wasn’t any crimes done by a single individuals it was always done by a group of people such as the mob, gangs, and even terrorist. Therefore when I think about the 911 attack in 2001 on the twin towers, and pentagon. I feel that this attack could fell under organized crimes. During this attack there was so many people affected by this as the deaths of men, women, and children. The marathon bombing that occurred in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15, 2013 would be considered to be organized crime due to the fact that there was two individuals involved that happen to be brothers. One of the brothers was killed and the other one was captured and given the death penalty. I believe that if people would think about the consequences and what type of affect these attacks can have on people then they would think twice about committing these organized crimes. I feel that criminals of organized crimes should automatically get the death regardless of their role or participation in the crime if the attack killed multiple people. If there wasn’t anyone killed during the attack then the criminal should be