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The person who is selfish in its essence acts to maximize his personal benefit. This behavioral feature becomes functional when the potential benefit that individuals will obtain after making the cost calculation is higher than the potential costs that will arise. Economically, the "rational choice theory", which describes the basis of human behavior in this way, has since the mid-20th century become analyzing the involvement of individuals in crime. In light of the basic approach to this analysis, this study, first of all, evaluated the theory of rational choice and studied the criminal interpretation of this theory. The study later analyzed its definitions in literature and international standards on the subject of organized crime, which passed from local to global and became part of the agenda of almost every state and over-government organization. The study, as its main objective, aims to analyze the subject of organized crime with the rational choice theory as the last step, made assessments towards this objective. At the beginning of its basic objectives, organized crime, which is achieving financial profits, is regarded as an economic initiative that commits crime by observing the interests of the group or organization by considering it to a large scale, unlike the individual committed crime. With these characteristics, the rational choice theory, which criminologically contains parts of many theories, has become the basic approach to this study.

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Individuals, who are selfish in essence, act to maximize their own utility. This behavioral feature becomes functional when the potential benefit to be obtained by individuals, after making a cost-benefit calculation, is higher than the potential costs to arise. Economically, the "rational choice theory", which explains the basis of human behavior in this way, has become used for analyzing the participation of individuals in crime since the middle of the 20th century. In the light of the basic approach of this analysis, this study first evaluates the rational choice theory and examines the criminological interpretation of this theory. Later on, the study analyzes the definition of organized crime in the literature and international norms, which has been on the agenda of almost every state and supra-state organization. Since the study aims to analyze organized crime with the rational choice theory as its main purpose, it makes evaluations towards this purpose as a last step. Organized crime, whose primary purpose is to secure financial gain, is seen as an economic enterprise that commits a crime by considering the interests of the group or organization by evaluating it on a large scale, unlike the crimes committed individually. With these features, rational choice theory, which contains parts of many theories criminologically, has become the main approach for this study.