ULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the que stion. 1 In many ways the image and impression we have of organized crime, whether accurate or not, have been shaped by American ________ culture. 1 A country

Chapter 1 Understanding Organized Crime M ULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) In many ways the image and impression we have of organized crime, whether accurate or not, have been shaped by American "________" culture. 1) A) country B) pop C) bebop D) rap 2) The 1972 movie ________, starring Marlon Brando, depicted organized crime. 2) A) The Choir Boys B) The Godfather C) The Underworld D) The Black Dahlia 3) Donald Liddick (2004) suggests that organized crime is "the provision of illegal goods and services, various forms of theft and fraud, and the restraint of trade in both licit and illicit market sectors, perpetuated by informal and changing networks of 'upper - world' and 'under - world' societal participants who are bound together in complex webs of ________ relationships." 3) A) boss - subordinate B) seller - user C) power - patron D) patron - client 4) The National Criminal Intelligence Service (2005) describes organized crime as having four salient attributes, which include all of the following EXCEPT ________. 4) A) the group is motivated by a desire for profit or power B) the group commits serious criminal offenses C) the group, or at least one member, commits murder or aggravated assault D) an organized crime group contains at least three people 5) Organized crime profits by trafficking women across international borders for prostitution and often uses women as ________ in the drug trade during transit. 5) A) oxen B) horses C) cows D) mules 6) Unlike street criminals or even professional criminals, organized criminals work together on a ________ basis in illegal enterprises. 6) A) supply and demand B) continuous C) need to know D) friendly 7) Organized crime exists for one primary purpose: ________. 7) A) to beat the criminal justice system B) to get away with murder C) to make a profit D) to protect each other from other organizations 8) Instead of shaking down neighborhood bars and restaurants, organized crime agencies, hired by legitimate businesses, now harass their ________. 8) A) local police agency B) competitors C) accountants D) attorneys 9) Organized crime involves a defined ________, with people in leadership and management roles who make "policy" decisions. 9) A) enterprise B) hierarchy C) procurement D) scope 1 Organized Crime 7e Michael Lyman, Gary Potter (Test Bank All Chapters, 100% Original Verified, A+ Grade) Answers At The End Of Each Chapter 1 / 4

10) Which type of hierarchies are tightly controlled groups with strong systems of internal discipline and clearly defined roles and lines of authority? 10) A) Standard B) Clustered C) Core D) Regional 11) A hallmark of organized crime is the provision of ________, which are not available from legitimate businesses. 11) A) services B) drugs C) weapons D) loans 12) One of the most comprehensive examinations of the ________ Mafia comes from Anton Blok (1974), an anthropologist who studied the Mafia of a Sicilian village for the period from 1860 to 1960. 12) A) European B) Mexican C) Sicilian D) Greek 13) What is a Gabelloti? 13) A) Violent peasant entrepreneurs B) A weapon used often in torture C) Special police force D) A trademark of Mexican Mafia murders 14) In Naples in the province of Campania on the Italian mainland, a powerful criminal brotherhood called the ________ (stemming from a Spanish word meaning dispute or fight) also operated. 14) A) Cosca B) Camorra C) Partito D) Palazzo 15) The Italian Mafia grew and developed during the reign of fascist dictator Benito ________ in the 1920s. 15) A) Mussolini B) Ciccio C) Mori D) Juarez 16) Until the Kefauver Committee hearings in 1950, the single most comprehensive and credible exploration of organized crime was ________ Organized Crime in Chicago . 16) A) John Wickliffe's B) W. S. Parkerson's C) John Landesco's D) Charles Mtranga's 17) The ________ was established to study the nature and extent of organized crime in the United States and to develop strategies and recommendations to combat it. 17) A) Anti - Mafia Commission B) Wickersham Commission C) Washington School of Organized Crime D) President's Commission on Organized Crime 18) Representing the core of the organized crime unit, the ________ is made up of persons who utilize criminality and violence and are willing to corrupt in order to gain power and profit. 18) A) criminal group B) Koran C) Pizza Connection D) Sicilian orthodox 19) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the criminal group? 19) A) Continuity B) Membership C) Structure D) Transparency 20) A corrupt public official is a "________." 20) A) motivator B) protector C) punisher D) eraser 2 2 / 4

21) ________ are composed of persons who purchase organized crime's illegal goods and services, such as drug users, patrons of bookmakers, and prostitution rings, and people who knowingly purchase stolen goods. 21) A) Specialized supporters B) Crime groups C) Social supporters D) User supporters 22) Chambliss (1978) conceives of organized crime as being a network of individuals, the most powerful of whom are ________. 22) A) neighbors B) friends C) family members D) businesspeople 23) According to ________ (1983), in New York, no group exercises control over entrepreneurs in gambling and loan - sharking. 23) A) Laswell B) Hellman C) Reuter D) Chap 24) Organized crime is made up of a series of highly adaptive, flexible networks that readily take into account ________. 24) A) new law enforcement hiring strategies B) perceptional blindness C) hard targeting D) new opportunities for distribution 25) In recognition of a need to regulate and constrain illicit activity, public officials put their policy - making and enforcement powers on the ________. 25) A) market B) back burner C) forefront D) lam TRUE/FALSE. Write 'T' if the statement is true and 'F' if the statement is false. 26) Organized crime organizations manipulate and control legitimate industries like trash hauling. 26) 27) Law enforcement priorities shifted in 2001 with the 9/11 bombings, which also resulted in an end to transnational organized crime. 27) 28) The 1990s and the early twenty - first century witnessed an increased sophistication in the crimes associated with the global drug trade. 28) 29) The FBI notes that there are only two structures under which TOC groups function N hierarchies and clans. 29) 30) Organized crime is a profit - driven enterprise, but the distinction between licit and illicit markets is often difficult to determine. 30) 31) The impact of globalization is the same everywhere. 31) 32) Organized crime and legitimate business can produce their goods and services more cheaply if they have a wider international reach. 32) 33) Incomes and wealth are decreasing enormously in some countries, drastically increasing the demand for organized crime's illegal goods and services, particularly in the drug and sex industries. 33) 3 3 / 4

34) Organized crime involves well - organized groups involved in a variety of criminal activities for the purpose of accumulating money or power. 34) 35) A regional hierarchy is an organized crime group that involves a number of smaller organized crime groups that coordinate their activities and enterprises. 35) 36) The Wickersham Commission noted that certain traits of criminal groups could be distinguished from other forms of criminality. 36) 37) One view of the Mafia states that violent crime, organized and ruthless, was transplanted to the United States from Sicily. 37) 38) Vito Cascio Ferro was also known as Don Vito. 38) 39) The pizzu was named after the small hand of an infant and the mafia saying "to wet the diaper" as it applies to the extortion of money. 39) 40) The police chief of New Orleans, David Hennessey, was indicted on October 15, 1890. 40) 41) After the death of David Hennessey, a lynch mob killed 11 people, some of whom were not connected to the Hennessey murder. 41) 42) Membership is not a characteristic of the criminal group. 42) 43) According to Cressey (1967), the primary unit of La Cosa Nostra is the family, which embodies mostly female members of Mexican ancestry. 43) 44) In La Cosa Nostra, the underboss is a close associate of the boss, who enjoys considerable influence on and status in the family. 44) 45) In drug trafficking, the production, importation, distribution, and retail activities are kept as discrete functions, often performed by completely different organized crime groups, most of which are both temporary and small. 45) SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question. 46) Perhaps the greatest problem in understanding organized crime is not with the word crime but with the word ________. 46) 47) Joe Albini (1971) tells us that organized crime is "any criminal activity involving two or more individuals, specialized or nonspecialized, encompassing some form of social structure, with some form of leadership, utilizing certain modes of operation, in which the ultimate purpose of the organization is found in the ________ of the particular group." 47) 48) One of the most profound ways in which a globalized economy has changed organized crime is that it has vastly ________ the number and types of enterprises from which organized crime may profit. 48) 4

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