Résumé
This document provides a greater understanding of the social and economic harms stemming from organized criminality, and assesses the possibility of measuring these harms to assist in efforts to counter organized criminal activity.
Contenu
1. Detailed analysis of the Criminal Code of Canada – 1.1. Operationalizing the Criminal Code definition -- 2. UCR methodology – 2.1. Crime Severity Index (CSI) – 2.2. Organized Crime Severity Index (OCSI) – 2.3. Offence weighting and criminal organization offences – 3. Logic of the method – 3.1. Material benefit serious offences – 3.2. Three or more offender offences – 3.3. Multiple offences -- 4. Example application -- 5. Discussion and limitations -- 6. Future development of a method for estimating an OCSI – 6.1. UCR method: microdata pilot testing – 6.2. Corrections data method – 6.3. Delphi method.