Author(s): Talgat Akimzhanov, Ramazan Tleukhan, Baurzhan Smatlayev, Solidat Kairzhanova, Aygul Irubayeva
The present study aims to review and discuss the concept of organized crime and present the current definitions of the organized crime which are completely reflecting content by the form of crime and are recognized by scientists and practitioners. Now exhaustive signs of organized crime, where in legal relations there are many gaps, complicating law-enforcement process concerning members of organized criminal groups, especially its top and many other things are not worked out. In our opinion, "stability" and "unity" can be considered as synonyms which have the right to existence and have to be regulated along with other signs of organized criminal group in the existing penal legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. All these circumstances require searching of the new approaches in research work at studying of organized crime, which would give the chance to receive a true picture of organized crime.