Exam 10: Organized Crime: "Goods and Services"

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Which term embodies two central features: the assessment of significant interest rates in extending credit and the use of threats and violence in collecting debts?​

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_____________ "book" bets on two types of events: horse races and sporting events.​

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Bookmakers​

In which area is the scale and the nature of manufacturing central to much product counterfeiting,often involving a large number of small firms collaborating to produce a single product and leaving the country vulnerable to counterfeiting?​

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According to the Task Force on Organized Crime,the core of organized crime activity is:​

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The business of organized crime is extortion.​

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What is a type of usurious loan that requires a specified schedule of repayment,including both principal and interest?​

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What includes a wide array of games of chance and sporting events on which wagers are made?​

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For which famous war were lotteries used (unsuccessfully)as a financing method?​

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What is a botnet? Explain its role in the commission of cybercrimes by criminal organizations.​

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What is another name for loansharking?​

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Which of the following is a network of compromised computers that infiltrates data to capture the contents of encrypted web pages and modify them in real time?​

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Who was the first important organized criminal to recognize the potential from legalized gambling in Nevada?​

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A(n)______________ refers to a type of illegal loan that requires a schedule of repayment,including both principal and interest.​

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The oldest form of bookmaking is _____________.​

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The business of organized crime is _____________,and those criminals who provide goods and services are its victims.​

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What is another name for the 1910 "White Slave Act," which prohibited the interstate transportation of women for the purpose of prostitution or other immoral purpose?​

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There is strong evidence that legal lotteries have diminished the revenues of their illegal counterparts.​

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Organized crime needs victims who cannot easily hide.​

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A player selects one,two,or three digits from 0 to 9 with the odds of winning running from 10 to 1,100 to 1,and 1,000 to 1 in which game?​

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To understand the business of organized crime,we need to consider the degree to which a crime group's business activities are integrated into their organizational structure.​

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