Exam 8: Transnational Organized Crime

What is the relationship between American and Sicilian Cosa Nostra groups?

Describe racketeering in the carting industry.

Increasingly, prostitutes around the world are being supplied from where?

What is an example of an organized crime group "subcontracting" for illicit services?

Why is it more useful to describe organized crime in terms of the illicit activities in question, rather than in terms of the groups that commit it?

How is corruption related to transnational crime?

How did the bootleggers of illegal alcohol become intertwined with providers of illegal gaming during the 1920s and 1930s?

Describe the origin of Jamaican gangs.

How can you describe organized crime in the 27 countries of the European Union?

How common is pirated software?

Why are drugs destined for the United States and western Europe sometimes brought through non-source, intermediary countries in central and eastern Europe?

How do U.S. courts permit charging individuals with organized crimes not committed in the United States?

What is "narco-terrorism"?

Why did the kidnapping of business executives and tourists from wealthy nations grow to the highest level ever during the 1990s?

What are examples of theft of intellectual property?

Why did the Medellin and Cali drug cartels in Colombia enjoy a great deal of success?