Exam 17: Organized Crime

Albanese (2000) identifies criminal opportunities created by motivated offenders, including:

The Russian "Mafiya" is considered to be the most serious organized crime threat in the world today.

The headquarters of one Yakuza group, complete with the gang emblem hanging proudly outside, is only three doors away from the local police station.

The organizational structure of La Cosa Nostra is best described as hierarchical.

La Cosa Nostra is the only organized crime group operating in the United States.

What is not a major element important to predicting the incidence of organized crime?

The greater the wealth, the greater the organized crime.

How is La Cosa Nostra like a mature corporation?

Compare and contrast witness immunity and the witness protection program.

Intelligence agencies in the United States feel that because of their higher level of criminal sophistication, ______ will present a greater threat to American society than the traditional Italian-American crime families ever have.

Most of organized crime's income is derived from all the following goods and services not available in the legitimate market EXCEPT

The motorcycle gang "Hell's Angels" is one example of an organized crime group.

The ______ allows federal prosecutors to grant lower-level members of organized crime groups immunity from prosecution for their own crimes in exchange for testimony incriminating higher-level members.

Discuss the history and structure of La Cosa Nostra.

The lower the rule of law in a country the lower the level of organized crime.

The view of La Cosa Nostra as a loose connection of criminal groups held together by kinship and patronage is known as the ______ model.