Exam 13: Organized Crime

The practice of loaning individuals money when they are in urgent need, and charging high interest rates, is known as ______.

Criminologists use the term organized crime to refer to any crime involving two or more people.

Which of the following theories posits that groups find themselves in neighborhoods where legitimate avenues of upward mobility are blocked?

Internationally, what are the three primary centers of supply for illegal drugs?

Which of the following terms refers to the control of drugs by stopping the transport and smuggling of drugs into the United States?

Chinese triad organizations are often referred to as red societies.

Identify the three-step process of money laundering.

Which of the following is a term primarily used to refer to Japanese organized crime syndicates?

All of the following countries were identified as having created bank secrecy laws that forbid the disclosure of the financial affairs of account holders except for ______.

Identify Klein's four myths regarding street gangs.

Which of the following types of gang members are those who mature out of the gang?

The Ku Klux Klan is an example of which of the following groups?

Which of the following terms is used to describe Russian organized crime?

Which of the following is commonly used in money laundering?

Which of the following types of organized crime refers to crimes committed by groups for direct personal profit, crimes that prey on unwilling victims?

Beginning in the 1970s and continuing into the 1990s, gang violence in the U.S. worsened. All of the following contributed to this violence except ______.

What is MS-13?

Organized criminal activity is an example of career crime, in which crime is pursued as a livelihood.

In the United States, money laundering is considered a ______.

Secret Chinese organizations are referred to as ______.