The definition of “organized crime” remains contentious because it has meant different things to different stakeholders over time. Does “organized crime” refer to illegal activities, relations between illegal organizations, how actors work together to engage in crimes, the infrastructure supporting crimes, or to the bricks and mortar of an illegal organization? Depending on the definition embraced by a stakeholder, their unit of analysis (eg crime group under investigation), and the particular time the study was conducted, an analyst may well be led to believe that some organized crime is really “disorganized” in nature. The two typologies of “organized” versus “disorganized” crime are indeed antithetical but they do not and should not be considered exclusive perspectives. In a pilot study into criminal groups conducted by the United Nations in 2002, two-thirds were found to have properties of “organized” crime and one-third were found to have properties of more “loosely networked structures."