Law Enforcement Administration
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Law Enforcement Administration explores the fundamental principles and practices involved in managing law enforcement agencies. The course covers organizational structure, leadership styles, human resources management, budgeting, policy development, and interagency cooperation. Students examine the roles and responsibilities of police administrators, learn about legal and ethical considerations, and discuss strategies for effective decision-making and problem-solving in a policing context. Through case studies and real-world examples, participants gain insights into current challenges facing law enforcement leaders, including technology adoption, community relations, and accountability.
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Organized Crime 11th Edition by Howard Abadinsky
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Organized Crime
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Q1) Some criminal organizations use ___________ to confirm membership,such as the death head emblem of the Hell's Angels.
A)membership cards
B)trademarks
C)criminal "birth certificates"
D)souvenirs
Answer: B
Q2) A criminal network has points of _____________ where participants congregate.
Answer: convergence
Q3) Members of organized crime view themselves as conventional members of society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Both terrorist groups and criminal organizations use compartmentalization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q5) As opposed to organized crime,______________ is inherently political,and as such it is relative to one's political view.
Answer: terrorism
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Chapter 2: Explanations for Organized Crime
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Q1) The theory of _____________ asserts that illegitimate opportunity for success,like legitimate opportunity,is not equally distributed throughout society and access to criminal ladders of success is no more freely available than are noncriminal alternatives.
Answer: differential opportunity
Q2) According to learning theory,antisocial behavior is sometimes the result of learning-positive and negative reinforcement-directly from others.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Sociologists Clifford R.Shaw and Henry D.McKay suggested that the attitudes,values,and techniques of organized criminality are transmitted through all of the following ways except for:
A)economic necessity.
B)formalized and ritualistic processes.
C)culturally.
D)religiously
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: United States
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Q1) Mafia bosses are linked in a rather informal arrangement known as the ________________.
Answer: commission
Q2) With respect to the Italian organized crime families of today,Italian heritage is no longer a requirement to become a full "made guy" within the organization.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Between 1891 and 1920,4 million Italians entered the United States.Most came from the area south of Rome-in particular,Sicily,Naples,and its surrounding Campania area,and the province of Calabria.This area is called the _____________.
Answer: Mezzogiorno
Q4) At the center of the American Mafia Family patron-client network is:
A)the Boss.
B)the sottocapo.
C)the consigliere.
D)the made-man.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Italy and Albania
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Q1) What is another name for the 'Ndrangheta?
A)Sicilian Mafia
B)Corsican Mafia
C)Calabrian Mafia
D)Albanian Mafia
Q2) To the Camorra,which of the following is crucial for their continued operation?
A)omertá
B)secrecy
C)territorial control
D)religious ideology
Q3) Benito Mussolini's rise to power in the 1920s had important implications for the Mafia and Italian-American organized crime.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Members of the Mafia refer to the organization as:
A)Sacra Unite.
B)Famiglia Signifecata.
C)Cosa Nostra.
D)Capo di Famiglia.
Q5) The New Mafia is also known as _____________.
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Chapter 5: Colombia and Mexico
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Q1) Tijuana is the home of some of Colombia's most notorious drug traffickers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) With the weakening of the major Colombian cartels,Mexicans have formed direct links to coca leaf farmers and processing laboratories in two countries,_____________ and _____________.
Q3) With a population of more than one million,the city of ____________ is racked by poverty and lacks a sewage treatment facility,but is home to one of Mexico's richest drug organizations and is now considered the most dangerous city in the world.
Q4) Control of most of the world's cocaine industry remains in the hands of the Mexican organizations.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Colombian cocaine networks are informally structured and operate in a fluid,transactional manner.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Discuss the role of militias in Colombia in relation to drug trafficking and traffickers.
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Chapter 6: Russia and the Former Soviet Union
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Q1) Most Russian criminals began their criminal careers as members of adolescent street gangs in ethnic ghettos.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Today,many of the criminals who work for Russian organized crime operations in the United States tend to be of what descent?
A)Hungarian
B)Yugoslavian
C)Jewish
D)Polish
Q3) Who are reportedly the only criminal group in Russia that does not respect the territoriality of the vory?
A)Siberians
B)Latvians
C)Georgians
D)Chechens
Q4) The _____________,highly regarded thieves who control many of the current Russian organized crime rackets,developed among hardcore prison camp inmates.
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Chapter 7: Asia
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Q1) Secret Chinese societies have a long history in the United States,dating back to the mid-1850s in California.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is \(\underline{\text{NOT}}\) one of the three basic Chinese concepts that represent the Triad?
A)heaven
B)earth
C)man
D)hell
Q3) ________________ is a term used to describe a Chinese human trafficker who specializes in smuggling illegal aliens for employment into the United States and other countries.
Q4) The organized crime group known as United Bamboo was established in _____________ in 1956 and maintains strong ties to the Kuomintang Party of Communist China.
Q5) Define and explain those who call themselves yakuza.Next,how are present-day yakuza different from their historical counterparts?
Q6) Bosses in the yakuza organization are known as ________________.
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Chapter 8: Africa
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Q1) Nigerian involvement in the drug trade is limited due to its geographic location being so secluded.
A)True
B)False
Q2) As a result of stepped-up enforcement against __________ entering Europe through Spain and the Netherlands,West Africa has become more attractive to smugglers.
Q3) Which of the following is \(\underline{\text{NOT}}\) one of the key items trafficked in West Africa?
A)narcotics
B)ivory
C)precious minerals
D)stolen military weapons
Q4) The structure of African criminal organizations is NOT similar to the Sicilian Mafia or the Japanese yakuza,but more similar to that of which organized crime group in the United States?
A)Albanian
B)Irish
C)Russian
D)Jamaican
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Chapter 9: Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs
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Q1) The Vietnam War generated a tremendous increase in outlaw membership by those returning home from serving in the military.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Some clubs have _____________ clubs,a type of farm team that support their interests and are generally subservient,carrying out orders from the dominant club.
Q3) Which term was first used by the sheriff of Riverside to distinguish southern California bikers such as the POBOBs from those motorcycle enthusiasts affiliated with the mainstream AMA?
A)gang
B)Hell's Angel
C)Bandido
D)outlaw
Q4) Outlaw motorcycle club (OMC)members are identified by their _____________.
Q5) Outlaw motorcycle club subculture calls for the use of so-called "biker bars" to recruit new members.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Organized Crime: "Goods and Services"
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Q1) Any crime committed with a computer can be classified as a "cybercrime."
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____________ includes a wide array of games of chance and sporting events on which wagers are made.
Q3) The business of organized crime is _____________,and those criminals who provide goods and services are its victims.
Q4) Which of the following is the oldest of the major bookmaking activities?
A)sports wagering
B)dog-race wagering
C)horse-race wagering
D)political race wagering
Q5) Central to trafficking in persons is the "principle of _________," applied upon arrival,through seizure of travel documents such as passports and tickets of the trafficked person.
Q6) What is another name for loansharking?
A)investment
B)hedge
C)numbers
D)usury
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Chapter 11: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking
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Q1) Heroin and methamphetamine are usually brokered in which country?
A)Thailand
B)Myanmar
C)the Philippines
D)Mexico
Q2) _____________ are synthetic versions of drugs such as morphine.
Q3) Which individual was in charge of upholding and enforcing the Harrison Act?
A)Commissioner of Internal Revenue
B)Attorney General of the United States
C)Director of the FBI
D)Regional Director of the DEA
Q4) In the five years after the collapse of the French Connection,_____________ became the major source of U.S.heroin.
Q5) Explain the process of distribution of heroin and cocaine.
Q6) Analogs are synthetic versions of drugs such as morphine.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Early antidrug laws in the United States were often the result of ______________.
Q8) Trace the historic relationship between the British,China,and opium.
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Chapter 12: Organized Crime in Labor, Business, and Money Laundering
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Q1) Payments to organized crime may be direct,or by making a racketeer (or one of his relatives)a business partner,or by employing which type of employees,who are on a construction payroll and receive salaries but do no work?
A)smurf
B)secret
C)phantom
D)ghost
Q2) Until 1992,whose multimillionaire sons exercised control over garment-center trucking?
A)Jimmy Hoffa's
B)Robert Kennedy's
C)Carlo Gambino's
D)Gaetano Lucchese's
Q3) The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union was established in which city in 1891?
A)New York
B)Chicago
C)Houston
D)Las Vegas
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Chapter 13: Organized Crime Statutes
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Q1) What type of activity did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibit?
A)drug trafficking
B)human trafficking
C)restraint of trade
D)tax evasion
Q2) In what ways can the Internal Revenue Code be used against organized crime?
Q3) Federal conspiracy statutes generally require the government to prove that three or more persons agreed to commit an offense and that one or more of these persons did at least one act to carry out the agreement.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Members of an enterprise conspiracy must be aware of each other's criminal activities,in order to be in violation of the law.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The _____________ Act of 1959 established a Bill of Rights for union members.
Q6) Define conspiracy,state the three main types discussed in the text,and briefly describe each.
Q7) What is RICO? Also list and explain the major criticisms with its application.
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Chapter 14: Investigating and Prosecuting Organized Crime
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Q1) In the federal system,the ______________ is a body of 23 citizens empowered to operate with a quorum of 16 and requiring 12 votes who hears evidence to determine whether an official indictment should be handed down by the federal prosecutor.
Q2) Which of the following is NOT one of the three restraints on law enforcement efforts in general and on organized crime law enforcement in particular?
A)constitutional restraints
B)jurisdictional limitations
C)intertwining problems of corruption and informants
D)executive orders
Q3) The Fifth Amendment to the U.S.Constitution provides that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." This is an important protection for the individual against the coercive powers of the state,and it can be partially neutralized by a grant of ___________________.
Q4) In intelligence gathering,an analyst uses the methods of social science research,and central to this approach is the _____________.
Q5) Define "immunity." What are the two major types of immunity used by prosecutors?
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