LLCU 213 TEST #1 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS (2)
Question:
Social Organized Crime in Canada
Answer:
- The greatest problem in understanding organized crime is not with the word
crime but with the word organized
- Internal cohesion and external relations
- Bonding and bridging social capital
- Social capital is about the value of social networks, bonding similar people and
bridging between diverse people, with norms of reciprocity
- Violence is the backbone, power is the lifeblood of the mafia and criminal
organizations
- Conventional crime is different from organized crime
Question:
Canada is the best country for organized crime because
Answer:
- Least risk for persecution
- Only problem is the weather
Question:
Jesse James vs. Luciano
Answer:
- James Gang ended with Jesse's death in 1882
- Luciano's organization is still active
- While the crime portfolio of Jesse James was limited, criminal organizations are
involving in a variety of crimes and on a large scale
Question:
Extinction vs. Perpetuity
Answer:
- Perpetuity: a variable that can distinguish a organized from conventional crime
- Lasts forever
-If a boss passes away, the organization does not die, he is replaced
Question:
- Criminals who are part of recognizable (by other criminals) organization are in a
position to negotiate transactions
- Those without an organizational affiliation would find it difficult if not impossible
to accomplish
- They benefit from the value of a bad reputation
- They carry a more reliable form of justice where the legal system places onerous
burdens on plaintiffs
- They use bonding rituals
,- Focused on being "born again" into a new group
- Create a sense of bonding
Answer:
Reputation
Question:
Name
Answer:
- A name is everything
- Without a name, a gang would just be perceived as a group of hooligans
Question:
Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo
Answer:
- known as Judge Judy in Chicago
- Resolved many problems were few words
Question:
Myths
Answer:
- Robin hood: mythic hero that stole from the rich to give to the poor
- Gives past to criminals to make them look good
Question:
Rituals
Answer:
- Typically over 100 year old
- Cutting hands to pledge themselves
Question:
- Organized crime is a continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit
from illicit activities that are often in a great public demand
- Have the ability to corrupt
- Provide for public demand
- Its continuing existence is maintained through the use of course, monopoly
control, and/or the corruption of public officials
- Have restricted members
- You do not just choose to join, they select you
Answer:
Organized crime
Question:
1. A continuing group or organization that participates in illicit activity in any
society by the use of force, intimidation or threats
2. The structuring of a group or organization whose purpose is to provide illicit
services for which there is a strong public demand through the use of secrecy on
the part of associates
, 3. The assurance of protection and immunity necessary for its operation through
political corruption or avoidance of prosecution
Answer:
Three main characteristics of organized crime
Question:
Organized crime vs. Consensual Crime
Answer:
Consensual crime: gambling, lending, sex, narcotics, stolen property
- No inherent violence
- Economic harm
Organized crime: coercive use of legal business for purposes of exploitation
- Threat, violence, extortion, economic harm
- Highly organized
- Hierarchy
- Restricted membership
- Immunity through corruption and enforcement
Question:
Other characteristics of organized crime
Answer:
- Rules: governed rules and regulations
-Monopolistic: hegemony over a territory
-Strives for hegemony over a particular geographic area of industry
- Do not want competition
- Violence: willingness to use illegal violence
- Readily available and routinely accepted resource
- Perpetuation: perpetuates itself
- Ongoing criminal conspiracy designed to persist through time (beyond the life
of the current membership)
- No political goals: the goals of an organized crime group are money and power
- An organized crime group is not motivated by social doctorine, political beliefs
or ideological concerns
- Goal is money and power
- Political involvement may be used to protection or immunity for illegal activity
- Hierarchical: vertical power structure, not just a leader and followers
- Has at least three permanent ranks (not just a leader and followers) each with
authorities over the level beneath
- The authority is inherent in the position
- Vertical power structure
- Membership: limited or exclusive membership
- Typically involves having basic qualifications (ex. ethnic, kinship, background)
- Those who meet basic qualifications usually require a sponsor
- Parallel culture: constitute a parallel culture
- Mix between subculture and parallel culture
Question:
CORRECT ANSWERS (2)
Question:
Social Organized Crime in Canada
Answer:
- The greatest problem in understanding organized crime is not with the word
crime but with the word organized
- Internal cohesion and external relations
- Bonding and bridging social capital
- Social capital is about the value of social networks, bonding similar people and
bridging between diverse people, with norms of reciprocity
- Violence is the backbone, power is the lifeblood of the mafia and criminal
organizations
- Conventional crime is different from organized crime
Question:
Canada is the best country for organized crime because
Answer:
- Least risk for persecution
- Only problem is the weather
Question:
Jesse James vs. Luciano
Answer:
- James Gang ended with Jesse's death in 1882
- Luciano's organization is still active
- While the crime portfolio of Jesse James was limited, criminal organizations are
involving in a variety of crimes and on a large scale
Question:
Extinction vs. Perpetuity
Answer:
- Perpetuity: a variable that can distinguish a organized from conventional crime
- Lasts forever
-If a boss passes away, the organization does not die, he is replaced
Question:
- Criminals who are part of recognizable (by other criminals) organization are in a
position to negotiate transactions
- Those without an organizational affiliation would find it difficult if not impossible
to accomplish
- They benefit from the value of a bad reputation
- They carry a more reliable form of justice where the legal system places onerous
burdens on plaintiffs
- They use bonding rituals
,- Focused on being "born again" into a new group
- Create a sense of bonding
Answer:
Reputation
Question:
Name
Answer:
- A name is everything
- Without a name, a gang would just be perceived as a group of hooligans
Question:
Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo
Answer:
- known as Judge Judy in Chicago
- Resolved many problems were few words
Question:
Myths
Answer:
- Robin hood: mythic hero that stole from the rich to give to the poor
- Gives past to criminals to make them look good
Question:
Rituals
Answer:
- Typically over 100 year old
- Cutting hands to pledge themselves
Question:
- Organized crime is a continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit
from illicit activities that are often in a great public demand
- Have the ability to corrupt
- Provide for public demand
- Its continuing existence is maintained through the use of course, monopoly
control, and/or the corruption of public officials
- Have restricted members
- You do not just choose to join, they select you
Answer:
Organized crime
Question:
1. A continuing group or organization that participates in illicit activity in any
society by the use of force, intimidation or threats
2. The structuring of a group or organization whose purpose is to provide illicit
services for which there is a strong public demand through the use of secrecy on
the part of associates
, 3. The assurance of protection and immunity necessary for its operation through
political corruption or avoidance of prosecution
Answer:
Three main characteristics of organized crime
Question:
Organized crime vs. Consensual Crime
Answer:
Consensual crime: gambling, lending, sex, narcotics, stolen property
- No inherent violence
- Economic harm
Organized crime: coercive use of legal business for purposes of exploitation
- Threat, violence, extortion, economic harm
- Highly organized
- Hierarchy
- Restricted membership
- Immunity through corruption and enforcement
Question:
Other characteristics of organized crime
Answer:
- Rules: governed rules and regulations
-Monopolistic: hegemony over a territory
-Strives for hegemony over a particular geographic area of industry
- Do not want competition
- Violence: willingness to use illegal violence
- Readily available and routinely accepted resource
- Perpetuation: perpetuates itself
- Ongoing criminal conspiracy designed to persist through time (beyond the life
of the current membership)
- No political goals: the goals of an organized crime group are money and power
- An organized crime group is not motivated by social doctorine, political beliefs
or ideological concerns
- Goal is money and power
- Political involvement may be used to protection or immunity for illegal activity
- Hierarchical: vertical power structure, not just a leader and followers
- Has at least three permanent ranks (not just a leader and followers) each with
authorities over the level beneath
- The authority is inherent in the position
- Vertical power structure
- Membership: limited or exclusive membership
- Typically involves having basic qualifications (ex. ethnic, kinship, background)
- Those who meet basic qualifications usually require a sponsor
- Parallel culture: constitute a parallel culture
- Mix between subculture and parallel culture
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