Abstract
The purpose of the article is to find out the way people convicted of organized crime use neutralization techniques to avoid blame for their crimes and if there is a difference in their use between members of the organization’s core and periphery. The study was carried out with seven out of the nine members of the same organization convicted of drug trafficking. In-depth triangulated interviews with police information and court documents were used. Inmates make extensive use of techniques to justify their conduct by questioning the legal norm and attributing responsibility to external circumstances such as “having no other way out”. Members of periphery use fewer techniques, and on fewer occasions, than those of core, and they are the only ones to assume responsibility for the crime committed.
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