Organized and Consensual Crime, Mid-term review, Chp. 5
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- The initial contact is made by telephone; a way to verify the client's identity is established and the fee is established for supplying these.
- Escort service prostitutes
- In addition to prostitution, in which related crime was Holly Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam, involved?
- money laundering
- Like other forms of vice, gambling has been outlawed or regulated for decades because of its perceived ability to erode society's morals. T or F
- T
- Drug and other vice operations will continue into the 21st century because a market exists for them.
- U.S. taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year fighting the drug war and other vice operations. Which is the most liekly prediction for such illegal activities in the twenty-first century?
- Traditionally, currency counterfeiting has been outside the portfolio of organized crime primarily because of high risk in such ventures, the labor-intensive nature of the process, and the relatively low yield in terms of profits. T or F
- T
- In some major cities, motorcycle gangs have made a major move into this industry.
- Commercial sex
- Loan-sharking is the top money maker for traditional organized crime and represents one of its most violent enterprises. T or F
- ?
- Eleanor Miller's study of female prostitutes working the street suggests that these often operate within informal criminal networks and within the context of a street subculture.
- Streetwalkers
- Which best describes Frank Serpico's and David Durk's roles in uncovering organized crime operations in the 1970s and 1980s?
- They testified before investigatiove commissions in NY.
- This remains the most widely used and readily available illicit drug in the U.S.
- Marijuana
- Resulting from the Knapp Commission's final report were reforms, which included the appointment of a special prosecutor to supersede the five NYC DAs in all corruption investigations in the city, and the creation of this within the department.
- Internal Affairs Division
- Which law was enacted in an effort to reduce prostitution in the U.S.?
- The Mann act of 1910
- Of all the motivating factors behind organized crime operations, which is the most significant?
- profit
- The use of this in the U.S. increased significantly in the early to mid-1990s, but has leveled off in recent years.
- Heroin
- The worldwide production and consumption of synthetic drugs, particulary amphetamine-type stimulatns, including methamphetamine ane ectasy, have dramatically increased since the early 1990s. T or F
- T
- The nation's king of ****
- Which best describes the claim to fame of Reuben Sturman of Cleveland, Ohio?
- On March 18, 1996, the first 1,800 police officers graduatefd from a new-style NYC police academy that focused on this.
- Anticorruption training
- Grossing billions of dollars each year, it is among the largest American industries.
- Which best describes the financial position of organized crime activities in America?
- From a gross dollar standpoint, sports betting is the king of bookmaking. Unlike numbers and horse wagering, sports betting caters mainly to the affluent. T or F
- T
- A bookmaker is a broker who, for a fee known as the bookorish, accepts wagers he hopes will balance one another so that payoffs to winning bettors can be paid from losing bettors' money, with something left over for the bookmaker. T or F
- T
- Which setting is most ideal for providing illegal sexual services?
- a massage parlor
- The consumption of this in the United States, the world's most important and largest market, has declined somewhat wince its peak in the late 1980s, but has remained relatively stable for most of the last decade.
- Cocaine
- Perhaps the most disturbing claim made against the more sophisticated organized crime groups is the one suggesting that these organizations are infiltrating and controlling large areas of legitimate business through business racketeering. T or F
- T
- Arms trafficking in munitions became a major international organized crime enterprise during the 1990s. T or F
- T
- Contraband smuggling is not an attractive criminal enterprise because it typically carries more severe penalties than does drug trafficking. T or F
- F
- Which is the most accurate descriptor of the material found in Playboy magazine?
- soft-core pornography
- Which group has recently made a major move into the commercial sex industry?
- motorcycle gangs
- Organized crime provides a wide array of this to millions of customers on a daily basis.
- Illegal goods and services
- As the 20th century came to an end, organized crime involvement in environmental crime was becoming on of its most lucrative and fast-growing new markets. T or F
- T
- This results from the restrictiveness of public policy that prohibits hard-core ****ography or from a producer's desire to reach a consumer audience larger that that partronizing **** shops or adult movie theaters.
- soft-core pornography