So far the distinction between crime and economy and crime economies might be drawn between structure and process. Traditionally, when considered along with economy, crime is talked of as an illegitimate component part.
In this way the ‘economic’ propensity of crime can be overlooked.
Enterprise theory, which has been successfully turned towards understanding organised crime, de-emphasises considerations of from and structure in favour of process and outcome.
Greater emphasis on these will re-orient much of the popular moral panic generated by mythologies such as the Mafia