Organized crime

Question 1

Organized crime

Answer 1

Sometimes defined through a typology
*Reason for committing is due to monetary/ political goals

Question 2

Howard Abadinsky listed various factors associated with organized crime

what are the qualifications

Answer 2

Qualifications
1. Absent of political goals
2. organized crime is hierachal
3. limited or exclusive membership
4. constitutes a unique subculture
5. perpetuates itself
6. willing to use illegal violence
7. monopolistic
8. governed by rules & regulations

Question 3

Examples of organized crime

Answer 3

Pirates during the American Colonial era

Question 4

Types of organized crime

Answer 4

1. mafia
2. prison gangs
3. urban street gangs
4. outlaw motorcycle gangs
5. Transitional organized crime

Question 5

Criminal Justice Responses

for organized crime

Answer 5

-Chicago Crime Justice
- Wickersham Commission
- Kefauver Committee
- McClellan Committee
- President’s commission and Law enforcement
- Organized crime of 1970’s
- Presidents commission an organized crime