Chat with AIExam 7: Changes in the Nature of Organized Crime
Exam 1: What Is Organized Crime24 Questions
Exam 2: Conspiracy and Provision of Illicit Goods and Services72 Questions
Exam 3: Infiltration of Business, Extortion, and Racketeering24 Questions
Exam 4: Causes of Organized Crime16 Questions
Exam 5: Paradigms of Organized Crime14 Questions
Exam 6: The Mafia: Facts and Myths39 Questions
Exam 7: Changes in the Nature of Organized Crime17 Questions
Exam 8: Transnational Organized Crime36 Questions
Exam 9: Investigative Tools47 Questions
Exam 10: Prosecution Strategies34 Questions
Exam 11: Organizing a Criminal Defense26 Questions
Exam 12: Sentencing Organized Crime Offenders31 Questions
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What is the primary source of income to organized crime according to the two Commission investigations?
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Verified1967: Gambling and loansharking the largest sources of revenues to organized crime only two paragraphs of the entire report devoted to narcotics and heroin the only drug mentioned by name
1987: Drug trafficking the most widespread and lucrative organized crime activity
How did the 1987 report characterize the organized crime prosecution effort?
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VerifiedLabor-racketeering prosecutions have not deterred labor racketeering The current prosecution effort was fragmented and lacks coordination among agencies A greater emphasis on civil remedies was encouraged to bankrupt mobsters and deter others from accommodating organized crime
What is hijacking?
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VerifiedThe unauthorized seizure of a land vehicle, aircraft, or other conveyance while it is in transit
Why is corruption important to organized crime, and why is it difficult to determine its true extent?
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(45) How have political changes around the world impacted the opportunities for organized crime during the past 10-15 years?
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(37) How did the President's Commission characterize organized crime in 1967?
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(46) What was the controversy that surrounded the release of the 1987 President's Commission on Organized Crime report?
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(35) Explain how a drug courier might bring narcotics into the United States without detection.
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(35) Why were new prosecution tools not a focus of the 1987 report, unlike 20 years earlier?
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(44) Why did the 1987 Commission find that gambling continues to be the activity most conducive to corruption?
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(29) What problems in combating organized crime were cited by both investigations?
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(44) What did the 1987 report conclude about what should be done about gambling, and why do you think it came to this conclusion?
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(35) How is it possible for large numbers of cars to be stolen, shipped overseas, and sold, given their large size and all the requirements for registration?
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(33) Why is the suggestion of both Commissions debatable regarding the positive impact that severe penalties will have on drug trafficking?
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(38) How did the 1987 President's Commission on Organized Crime differ in its characterization?
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