Chat with AIExam 1: What Is Organized Crime
Why do you think The Godfather is the best-selling book about crime ever published, and that there is continuing fascination with organized crime in movies and on television?
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VerifiedThe Godfather Although it is a novel, people are fascinated by organized crime, the mafia, and all the associated descriptions Perhaps the personalities of organized crime figures, combined with the fact that organized crime often provides goods and services in public demand that happen to be illegal, contribute to our continuing interest in organized crime in all its manifestations
Why are biographical attributes e.g., ethnicity) of organized crime groups not very useful?
(85) VerifiedThey may help to describe a particular person or group, but they do not help to explain that person's or group's behavior especially when compared to those having that biographical attribute that do not engage in organized crime
What is a consensus definition of organized crime among authors who have written on the subject?
(81) VerifiedOrganized crime is a continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illicit activities that are often in great public demand Its continuing existence is maintained through the use of force, threats, monopoly control, and/or the corruption of public officials See Table 11 in the text
A study of 40 organized crime cases in the Netherlands found women to have what role in the illegal activity?
(93) Why is catering to public demands through illicit goods and services a more common form of organized crime activity than infiltration of business?
(97) How is the infiltration of legitimate business more predatory than the provision of illicit goods and services?
(86) How are the provision of illicit goods and services most clearly distinguished from the infiltration of legitimate business?
(76) How do we know that no single ethnic group accounts for organized crime, and that local criminal opportunities offer a much more powerful way to explain organized crime?
(96) How have arrests for gambling changed over the past 38 years, and why?
(84) Why is description of organized crime in terms of ethnicity misleading?
(82) Why are police arrests not a true indicator of the extent of organized crime activity?
(70) Why are the 11 different types of organized crime groups described by the President's Commission on Organized Crime a curious mixture?
(82) Why are all gambling, drug, prostitution, and stolen property arrests not necessarily related to organized crime?
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