Exam 3: United States

Entry into the Mexican Mafia membership requires a sponsor and a majority vote of the members in a jail or prison or an operational street-level clique.

Who became the most important Italian organized crime figure in New York following the deaths of Giuseppe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano?

____________ is a Salvadoran crime group operating in the United States.​

Individuals seeking membership in MS-13 are subject to various forms of initiation including:​

Describe what young male prospective candidates who wish to join the El Salvadorian-based street gang the MS-13 may have to carry out as a part of their initiation process.

At the center of the universe of an American Mafia unit is the _____________.​

The conflict that arose in 1930 between the two major Mafia factions in New York is known as the _____________.​

Between 1891 and 1920,4 million Italians entered the United States.Most came from the area south of Rome-in particular,Sicily,Naples,and its surrounding Campania area,and the province of Calabria.This area is called the _____________.​

Found in at least nine state prison systems and reputed to be the most powerful of the prison organized crime groups,_____________ is comprised mainly of Mexican-American convicts and ex-convicts from the barrios of East Los Angeles.​

The National Gang Intelligence Center (2011)estimates there are now more than __________ gangs currently operating in the United States.​

Scholars have determined that the New York organized crime bosses from the various five original Mafia families were one time linked in a rather informal arrangement known as:​

The struggle for domination of Italian American organized crime in New York became known as the Castellammarese War because Salvatore Maranzano and many of his supporters came from the small Sicilian coastal town of Castellammare del Golfo.​

The rules of the American Mafia have succeeded in preventing the emergence of a violent southern Italian tradition,_______________,referring to an irrational blood feud that is ultimately bad for the organization.

Crews generate finances that they share with their patron,who shares it with:​

Members of an organization who are not necessarily guided by their organization's goals,but share a common interest in the survival of the system,are considered members of a ___________ system.

Among the Italian immigrants who came to the U.S.in the first few decades of the 1900s,were mafiosi who established protection regimes in every American city that had a sizable Sicilian population.​

Prison-based gangs have gained prominence as organized criminal groups,most notably the ____________,who are now found in at least nine state prison systems and reputed to be the most powerful of all prison gangs in America according to the text.​

Although any number of members in an organized crime group may be related,the term Family does not imply kinship by blood or marriage,it refers to one's allegiance to their respective crime "family."​

Members and associates of NY crime families have been traditionally organized into _____________,semi-independent units technically headed by a caporegime.​

Although part of a particular crew, each member who becomes a(n) _____________ is considered to be an independent entrepreneur, not an employee, who receives no salary from the group, but instead has been accorded a valuable franchise to oversee.