O crime organizado em Portugal: sua caraterização e ambiguidades

Abstract

The study of organized crime is a growing concern in Europe and all over theworld. However, all though many of our security policies are shaped by the risk andthreat of this phenomenon there is little or none information about this crime inPortugal. Through the analyses of official and international reports complemented byinterviews to criminal police agents, we assess the existence of organized crimeactivities in national territory to a level that begins to reveal itself of concern, speciallythe economic and financial crime. Far from the degree of sophistication found in otherEuropean countries, organized crime in Portugal is evolving and far from beingobjectively known.