ODLIKE SAVREMENIH KRIMINALNIH TRŽIŠTA
CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN CRIMINAL MARKETS

Summary/Abstract: In many parts of the world, multiple criminal markets operate in the same area, undermining economic stability, regional peace and social security. To varying degrees, criminal markets overlap or strengthen. The authors dichotomously view the totality of criminal markets, in relation to the surroundings, defining them as real and virtual. They point out that both categories are determined by the following characteristics: globality, transnationality, mobility, adaptability, variability, convergence, complementarity, correlation and phenomenological connection with poly-criminality, which is why they are a constant source of security risk and a constantly growing threat to public security. The authors pay special attention to the issue of convergence of criminal markets, consider it as a primary feature of criminal markets and as being dominant in relation to other determinants derived from it or closely related to it, both emergently and essentially. The paper emphasizes the mutual influence of criminal markets, as a reflection of the effect of poly-criminality and the functional reciprocity of the purpose of the most transnational criminal activities. Systems of illegal transport of goods and "legalization" of criminal profit through the entire financial labyrinths of cyber money launderers, as the authors believe, are also indicators of the existence of a singular or network presence of criminal markets. Through the prism of convergence, just like via other determinants of criminal markets, the authors try to show the range of corrupt constructions, which are considered to indicate key criminal hubs and sensitive points in the structure of the local and regional poly-criminal milieus. Last but not least, the authors unambiguously connect the existence of criminal hubs with the active operation of criminal hotspots, as a demonstration of the intensity of actions of organized criminal groups whose interaction forms the extent and the very matter of the criminal market through supply and demand of illegal needs and “services”.

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