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_____ is known as japanese organized crime groups (literally, “good-for-nothings”).

Hot spots

All of these

Yakuza

Family structure

Answer

Correct Answer: Yakuza

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_____ is defined as chinese organized crime groups.

None of these

Labeling theory

Triads

Anomie

Answer

Correct Answer: Triads

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_____ is statute of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. It prohibits the use of the proceeds from criminal operations from being used to acquire legitimate operations.

All of these

Triads

Juarez Plaza

RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations)

Answer

Correct Answer: RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations)

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Is racketeering dishonest practices, particularly in the labor sector?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the most powerful legislation ever passed to attack organized crime. It was passed in 1970.

The American Revolution

The Code of Hammurabi

None of these

Organized Crime Control Act

Answer

Correct Answer: Organized Crime Control Act

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_____ is defined as an illegal game of betting on numbers.

Numbers game

Cannons

All of these

Heels

Answer

Correct Answer: Numbers game

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_____ is was a major Colombian drug trafficking organization.

Ex post facto

All of these

Medellin cartel

Ethical conduct in research

Answer

Correct Answer: Medellin cartel

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Is mafiya a term for describing the Russian Mafia?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as one who illegally lends money at usurious interest rates.

Addict robbers

Alcoholic robbers

None of these

Loan shark

Answer

Correct Answer: Loan shark

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_____ is defined as arnold Trebach’s thesis that as soon as one source of heroin supply is shut off, another will emerge to meet the demand.

Iron law of opium trade

Gendered justice

None of these

Gender differences in crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Iron law of opium trade

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_____ is a 1940s antiracketeering act that holds that any interference with interstate commerce is a violation.

All of these

Hobbs act

Many laws are virtually unenforceable

Undermine public respect of the law

Answer

Correct Answer: Hobbs act

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Is ethnic succession theory the belief that organized crime has been a ladder of mobility for a succession of ethnic groups?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as model that shows organized criminal groups exist along a continuum from nonorganized crime to highly organized crime groups.

Do not have stable family lives

Are not drug addicts usually

None of these

Continuum model of organized crime

Answer

Correct Answer: Continuum model of organized crime

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_____ is defined as laws that require that property obtained through criminal activity is surrendered to the state.

War

None of these

Assets forfeiture

Nuremburg

Answer

Correct Answer: Assets forfeiture

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Which of the following statements is not a myth associated with street gangs?

They are all violent.

They are highly organized.

Los Angeles gangs franchise drug distribution to the rest of the country.

They do not control drug distribution in cities.

Answer

Correct Answer: They do not control drug distribution in cities.

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The strength of organized crime rests in it economic ideology and rationality.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Syndicates are involved in other gambling activities, such as bookmaking.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Under the Cosa Nostra model, the caporegime is also known as ______.

Counselor

Captain

Consigliere

Underboss

Answer

Correct Answer: Captain

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From which former member does a great deal of information on organized crime come?

Joseph Valachi

Jay Albanese

Vito Genovese

Al Capone

Answer

Correct Answer: Joseph Valachi

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Money laundering is the third largest industry in the world.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Which one of the following criminal events took place in the 1700s?

Colonial pirates

The New Orleans incident

The pizza connection

The commission trials

Answer

Correct Answer: Colonial pirates

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Mafia boss, ______ was also known as the “Dapper Don.”

Vito Genovese

Lucky Luciano

Al Capone

John Gotti

Answer

Correct Answer: John Gotti

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______ is the infiltration of unions to use their influence for personal profit.

Loan sharking

Trafficking

Racketeering

Bolita

Answer

Correct Answer: Racketeering

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Which type of organized crime has the chief goal of psychological gratification rather than monetary gain?

Syndicate

Mercenary

Political-social

In-group-oriented

Answer

Correct Answer: In-group-oriented

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Mexican cartels control 50 percent of the cocaine market in the United States.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Mafiya is a term used to refer to various Russian organized crime groups, which have grown in power since the collapse of the former Soviet Union.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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______ statute authorizes the Federal Government to seize legitimate operations if they have been purchased with illegally gained funds.

Hobbs

RICO

Bank security

Organized crime

Answer

Correct Answer: RICO

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Which of the following is not a legitimate source of information on organized crime?

Informers

Trial documents

Investigations

Movies

Answer

Correct Answer: Movies

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Which organized crime group is considered the most powerful international drug trafficking organization in the world?

Golden Triangle

Medeliin cartel

Juarez Plaza

Triads

Answer

Correct Answer: Medeliin cartel

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