Management Intercultural Volumul XIX, Nr. 39 (2 / 2017) 163 Hatem BENAZOUZ Department of Sociology University of Chik Larbi Tebessi–Tebessa -Algeria ORGANIZED CRIME IN ALGERIA: TYPOLOGIES AND CHARACTERISTICS Review Article Keywords Organized crime, The contraband, Money laundering, Drug trafficking, The firearms trafficking JEL Classification K42 Abstract This essay tries to analyse the phenomenon of national and transnational organized crime, which focuses the attention of several countries, governments, security and judicial apparatus throughout the world, on its threat to world stability and its destructive impact on the economic, social and security plans. The various aspects of this phenomenon are described through the follow-up of the various stages in which organized crime in Algeria developed. Its impact on the stability of neighbour countries is also worth mentioning, because is increasing in intensity and diversifying national and transnational criminal activities.