Organized Crime MCQs
Organized Crime MCQs
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1: One characteristic that differentiates organized crime groups from other groups is its formal structure.
A. True
B. False
2: Which is not a method in which Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs display unity?
A. Riding together
B. Attending retreats together
C. Displaying club colors and patches
D. Potential members committing criminal acts in front of senior members
3: What is corruption?
A. Dishonest and unethical conduct by people in power
B. Dishonest and unethical conduct by ordinary citizens
C. Dishonest and unethical conduct by criminals
D. Dishonest and unethical conduct by students
4: Which is not one of the ways in which Whitey Bulger had a long, successful career in organized crime?
A. He was an informant for the FBI
B. He kept a low profile
C. His brother’s high position in government
D. Friendships with police forged in childhood
5: What is the name of the United States program in which an individual is given around-the-clock protection while awaiting court appearances?
A. Witness Corruption Program
B. Witness Defense Program
C. Witness Relocation Program
D. Witness Protection Program
6: How does an organized crime group continue to operate beyond the lifetime of its individual members?
A. The leaders always stay the same.
B. The government allows it to.
C. It does not disintegrate when key leaders are arrested, die, or become absent.
D. Members never get caught doing criminal activity.
7: The following are characteristics of leadership of organized crime groups, except ______.
A. Manliness and aggression
B. Desire to gain instant respect
C. Empathy
D. Desire to belong
8: According to the chapter, what is the meaning of “LCN”?
A. Local Crime News
B. Legal Criminal Network
C. Los Chicos Nuevos
D. La Cosa Nostra
9: Prohibition caused a 10-year period of heightened organized crime, violence, and political corruption in the United States.
A. True
B. False
10: Which of the following is not a characteristic of an “organized crime” member?
A. An individual who makes a business out of crime.
B. An individual who continually uses force, threats, and/or corruption to harm public officials.
C. An individual who commits crimes from a legitimate business organization.
D. An accomplished criminal.
11: Which organized crime group is considered the most powerful international drug trafficking organization in the world?
A. Golden Triangle
B. Medeliin cartel
C. Juarez Plaza
D. Triads
12: Which of the following is not a legitimate source of information on organized crime?
A. Informers
B. Trial documents
C. Investigations
D. Movies
13: ______ statute authorizes the Federal Government to seize legitimate operations if they have been purchased with illegally gained funds.
A. Hobbs
B. RICO
C. Bank security
D. Organized crime
14: Mafiya is a term used to refer to various Russian organized crime groups, which have grown in power since the collapse of the former Soviet Union.
A. True
B. False
15: Mexican cartels control 50 percent of the cocaine market in the United States.
A. True
B. False
16: Which type of organized crime has the chief goal of psychological gratification rather than monetary gain?
A. Syndicate
B. Mercenary
C. Political-social
D. In-group-oriented
17: ______ is the infiltration of unions to use their influence for personal profit.
A. Loan sharking
B. Trafficking
C. Racketeering
D. Bolita
18: Mafia boss, ______ was also known as the “Dapper Don.”
A. Vito Genovese
B. Lucky Luciano
C. Al Capone
D. John Gotti
19: Which one of the following criminal events took place in the 1700s?
A. Colonial pirates
B. The New Orleans incident
C. The pizza connection
D. The commission trials
20: Money laundering is the third largest industry in the world.
A. True
B. False
21: From which former member does a great deal of information on organized crime come?
A. Joseph Valachi
B. Jay Albanese
C. Vito Genovese
D. Al Capone
22: Under the Cosa Nostra model, the caporegime is also known as ______.
A. Counselor
B. Captain
C. Consigliere
D. Underboss
23: Syndicates are involved in other gambling activities, such as bookmaking.
A. True
B. False
24: The strength of organized crime rests in it economic ideology and rationality.
A. True
B. False
25: Which of the following statements is not a myth associated with street gangs?
A. They are all violent.
B. They are highly organized.
C. Los Angeles gangs franchise drug distribution to the rest of the country.
D. They do not control drug distribution in cities.
26: _____ is known as a national ruling body of La Cosa Nostra consisting of the bosses of the five New York families and four bosses from other important families.
A. Corner Boy
B. None of these
C. Delinquent Boy
D. Commission
27: Is corporate Model a model that sees La Cosa Nostra as similar to corporate structure, that is, a formal hierarchy in which the day-today activities of the organization are planned and coordinated at the top and carried out by subordinates?
A. False
B. True
28: Is ethnic Succession Theory theory about the causes of organized crime positing that upon arrival in the United States each ethnic group was faced with prejudicial and discriminatory attitudes that denied it legitimate means to success in America?
A. True
B. False
29: _____ is sees La Cosa Nostra as similar to the old European feudal system based on patronage, oaths of loyalty, and semiautonomy.
A. Zone IV
B. Feudal Model
C. None of these
D. Zone V
30: _____ is defined as Literally, “our thing.” An organized crime group of Italian/Sicilian origins; also commonly referred to as the Mafia.
A. All of these
B. La Cosa Nostra
C. Complete Deterrence
D. General Deterrrence
31: _____ is known as a continuing criminal enterprise that works rationally to profit from illicit activities often in great public demand. Its continuing existence is maintained through the use of force, threats, and/or corruption of public officials.
A. Positive School
B. None of these
C. Neutral School
D. Organized Crime
32: Is prohibition common term for the Volstead Act that prohibited the sale, manufacture, or importation of intoxicating liquors within the United States?
A. True
B. False
33: Is rICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Statutes statutes that specifically target the continuing racketeering activities of organized criminals and provide for more severe penalties for the same crimes that fall under traditional criminal statutes and for the seizure of property and assets obtained from or involved in illegal activities?
A. True
B. False
34: _____ is a corrupt political machine that ran New York into the early 20th century associated with the Democratic Party and with organized crime.
A. All of these
B. Tammany Society
C. Dopamine
D. GABA
35: _____ is defined as program administered by the U.S. Marshals Service that provides witnesses awaiting court appearances with around-the-clock protection and new identification documents, employment, housing, and other assistance after testifying.
A. Zone V
B. None of these
C. Witness Protection Program
D. Zone III
36: _____ is defined as laws that require that property obtained through criminal activity is surrendered to the state.
A. War
B. None of these
C. Assets forfeiture
D. Nuremburg
37: _____ is known as model that shows organized criminal groups exist along a continuum from nonorganized crime to highly organized crime groups.
A. Do not have stable family lives
B. Are not drug addicts usually
C. None of these
D. Continuum model of organized crime
38: Is ethnic succession theory the belief that organized crime has been a ladder of mobility for a succession of ethnic groups?
A. False
B. True
39: _____ is a 1940s antiracketeering act that holds that any interference with interstate commerce is a violation.
A. All of these
B. Hobbs act
C. Many laws are virtually unenforceable
D. Undermine public respect of the law
40: _____ is defined as arnold Trebach’s thesis that as soon as one source of heroin supply is shut off, another will emerge to meet the demand.
A. Iron law of opium trade
B. Gendered justice
C. None of these
D. Gender differences in crime
41: _____ is known as one who illegally lends money at usurious interest rates.
A. Addict robbers
B. Alcoholic robbers
C. None of these
D. Loan shark
42: Is mafiya a term for describing the Russian Mafia?
A. True
B. False
43: _____ is was a major Colombian drug trafficking organization.
A. Ex post facto
B. All of these
C. Medellin cartel
D. Ethical conduct in research
44: _____ is defined as an illegal game of betting on numbers.
A. Numbers game
B. Cannons
C. All of these
D. Heels
45: _____ is known as the most powerful legislation ever passed to attack organized crime. It was passed in 1970.
A. The American Revolution
B. The Code of Hammurabi
C. None of these
D. Organized Crime Control Act
46: Is racketeering dishonest practices, particularly in the labor sector?
A. True
B. False
47: _____ is statute of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. It prohibits the use of the proceeds from criminal operations from being used to acquire legitimate operations.
A. All of these
B. Triads
C. Juarez Plaza
D. RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations)
48: _____ is defined as chinese organized crime groups.
A. None of these
B. Labeling theory
C. Triads
D. Anomie
49: _____ is known as japanese organized crime groups (literally, “good-for-nothings”).
A. Hot spots
B. All of these
C. Yakuza
D. Family structure
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