Criminal Policy's challenges faced the organized crime: View from Colombia

The commission of crimes belonging to organized crime requires the use of power, either as military, economic, or political, it means named from the criminology “the powerful crimes.” Thence, it is possible to affirm that due to the legal loopholes, this kind of criminality acts. For this reason, the design of criminal policy must recognize the interaction between the legal actors (public and privates) and the criminal groups. In this way, the Colombian State formulated the guidelines for criminal policy 2021- 2025 that established, as a priority, the disruption of organized crime. However, this policy limited its goals to carry out operative actions and ignored the link between organized crime and power. Therefore, this paper will study organized crime under the classification of “the powerful crimes” and the challenges for the criminal policy, especially in Colombia. To achieve this, I firstly will talk about organized crime and why it is named the powerful crime. Secondly, I will review what is the criminal policy and its goals. Finally, I will study the Guidelines for criminal policy in Colombia 2021-2025, considering organized crime’s criminological meaning. All the foregoing determines the main challenges for the criminal policy to prevent and punish organized crime.