Exam 13: Organized Crime

Success at small business permits mob infiltration of big business, which is the heart of the nation's economy.

The largest illegal business or organized criminals is now ______.

Cressey proposed that syndicate crime in the United States is characterized by a nationwide alliance of tightly knit families and a membership composed of Sicilian and Italian descendants in what is known as the ______ Theory.

Discuss the three key features of syndicate crime.

Scholars have found that it is more useful to conceive of organized crima as a matter of degree.

With major crackdowns on traditional organized crime activities such as extortion and bid-rigging rackets, mafia crime groups in New York in the '90s were shifting some of their focus to health frauds, prepaid phone cards, and Wall Street scams.

Identify two possible methods for controlling the availability of illegal drugs.

Money laundering refers to making clean or washing "dirty money."

Which of the following types of organized crime is committed for psycholgoical gratification?

Triad groups are nonhierarchical and informal.

Street gangs are all highly organized, very cohesive, and have centralized leadership.

Identify and describe each of the three main paradigms of organized crime in the field of criminology.

According to Klein, which of the following is true regarding street gangs?

Blackmail is not easily achieved by organized crime figures.

Assets forfeiture (seizure) is an example of laws that have been used against organized crime.

List three things organized criminals tend to do.

List and describe two types of organized crime according to Albini.

Enterprise theory argues that organized crime and normal business are similar activities on different ends of a spectrum of legitimacy.

What is the ethnic succession theory?