Question: What benefits and drawbacks does bureaucratic organizational structure bring to an organized crime group? Transnational organized crime has emerged powerfully in recent years. Why? What political and technological events most significantly influenced this phenomenon? In what ways do organized criminals and terrorists work together, and why? How does Sutherland's differential association theory explain OC? How does Robert Merton's theory of anomie explain OC? What theory(ies) best explain(s)-for you [students]-organized crime in the early 1900s? In the 1920s?