Deck 10: Organized Crime Goods and Services

Question 1

Who was the first important organized criminal to recognize the potential from legalized gambling in Nevada? ​

A)Bugsy Siegel
B)Al Capone
C)Frank Costello
D)Meyer Lansky

Answer 1

A

Question 2

For which famous war were lotteries used (unsuccessfully)as a financing method? ​

A)the Revolutionary War
B)the Civil War
C)WWI
D)WWII

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Professional gamblers-who bet for income, not fun-also track line changes in an effort to "__________," meaning they shop around for the most advantageous lines and bet opposite sides of the contest. ​

A)hedge
B)middle
C)secure
D)handle

Question 5

According to Thomas Schelling, what is the business of organized crime? ​

A)money laundering
B)prostitution
C)gambling
D)extortion

Question 6

Which type of connection is defined as members of a criminal organization extorting money from illegal entrepreneurs under a threat of violence? ​

A)reciprocal
B)entrepreneurship
C)parasitic
D)patron-client

Question 7

Which type of connection is defined as members of a criminal organization requiring legitimate or illegal entrepreneurs to pay a fixed or percentage amount but in return providing services such restricting market entry, debt collection, and arbitration? ​

A)reciprocal
B)entrepreneurship
C)parasitic
D)patron-client

Question 8

What is another name for loansharking? ​

A)investment
B)hedge
C)numbers
D)usury

Question 9

Which type of connection is defined as a member of a criminal organization providing an illegal good such as drugs or a service such as enforcement of restraint of trade agreements? ​

A)reciprocal
B)entrepreneurship
C)parasitic
D)patron-client

Question 10

What is a type of usurious loan that requires a specified schedule of repayment, including both principal and interest? ​

A)knockdown
B)vig
C)principle
D)chop

Question 11

Some organized crime groups such as American, Sicilian, Russian, and Japanese Mafias provide which type of services for restraint-of-trade agreements among otherwise legitimate businessmen? ​

A)courier
B)money laundering
C)banking
D)enforcement

Question 12

Which act makes it a crime to operate a betting or wagering business using telephone lines or other wire communication facility? ​

A)Federal Wire Wager Act
B)Hobbs Act
C)Mann Act
D)Cybercrime Act

Question 13

Which type of crime poses the greatest threat t o financial and trust systems-banking, stock markets, e-currency, and value and credit card services-on which the world economy depends? ​

A)loansharking
B)extortion
C)cybercrime
D)sex trafficking

Question 14

From a gross dollar volume standpoint, what type of wagering is the "king" of bookmaking? ​

A)sports wagering
B)dog-race wagering
C)horse-race wagering
D)political race wagering

Question 15

Which of the following is a network of compromised computers that infiltrates data to capture the contents of encrypted web pages and modify them in real time? ​

A)botnets
B)cyber-cache ​
C)cyber crawler
D)cybercrime

Question 16

Which term embodies two central features: the assessment of significant interest rates in extending credit and the use of threats and violence in collecting debts? ​

A)Kitting
B)Uttering
C)Loansharking
D)Extortion

Question 17

Which term refers to a person who provides a readily available outlet for marketing stolen ("hot")merchandise? ​

A)"keeper"
B)"friend"
C)"dealer"
D)"fence"

Question 18

According to the Task Force on Organized Crime, the core of organized crime activity is: ​

A)the supplying of illegal goods and services.
B)violence.
C)both violence and the supplying of illegal goods and services.
D)neither violence nor the supplying of illegal goods and services.

Question 19

What includes a wide array of games of chance and sporting events on which wagers are made? ​

A)gambling
B)loansharking
C)theft
D)fencing

Question 20

A player selects one, two, or three digits from 0 to 9 with the odds of winning running from 10 to 1, 100 to 1, and 1,000 to 1 in which game? ​

A)craps
B)blackjack
C)numbers
D)policy

Question 21

To understand the business of organized crime, we need to consider the degree to which a crime group's business activities are integrated into their organizational structure. ​

Question 22

Which principle is central to trafficking in persons and is applied upon arrival, through seizure of travel documents such as passports and tickets of the trafficked person? ​

A)submission
B)obedience
C)captivity
D)torture

Question 23

What is another name for the 1910 "White Slave Act," which prohibited the interstate transportation of women for the purpose of prostitution or other immoral purpose? ​

A)Jefferson Act
B)Roosevelt Act
C)Byrd Act
D)Mann Act

Question 24

Which of the following differentiates human trafficking from alien smuggling? ​

A)Human trafficking seeks short-term gain.
B)Human trafficking aids undocumented persons in gaining entry to a country.
C)Human trafficking seeks a continuing exploitive relationship.
D)Human trafficking seeks short-term gain and a continuing exploitative relationship, and aids undocumented persons in gaining entry to a country.

Question 25

What is one of the most common means of control of a person who is being trafficked? ​

A)food
B)sex
C)debt
D)drugs

Question 26

There is strong evidence that legal lotteries have diminished the revenues of their illegal counterparts. ​

Question 27

In which area is the scale and the nature of manufacturing central to much product counterfeiting, often involving a large number of small firms collaborating to produce a single product and leaving the country vulnerable to counterfeiting? ​

A)African
B)Chinese
C)Russian
D)Sicilian

Question 28

What phrase is used to describe how people travel from their own country to another with the sole purpose to engage in commercial sex acts with children? ​

A)Child Sex Tourism (CST)
B)Innocence Hunting (IS)
C)Redlight Dinner (RD)
D)Candy Store Shopping (CSS)

Question 29

The low priority given to gambling enforcement adds to its attractiveness to organized crime. ​

Question 30

The pornography business, like prostitution, suffers from a great deal of "amateur" involvement. Pornography, which at one time was under the almost exclusive control of organized crime, is now available over the Internet. ​

Question 31

Organized crime needs victims who cannot easily hide. ​

Question 32

The oldest of the major bookmaking activities is illegal sports wagering. ​

Question 33

Organized crime's interest in prostitution waned during Prohibition because money could be made easily in which area? ​

A)narcotics
B)murder
C)bootlegging
D)extortion

Question 34

According to U.S. federal law, what involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of forced labor or services through means of force, fraud, or coercion? ​

A)people pushing
B)modern slave trading
C)alien smuggling
D)human trafficking

Question 35

It is a violation of federal law to use the phone for gambling across state lines or international boundaries. ​

Question 36

When it comes to human trafficking, criminal organizations have failed so far to take full advantage of the lack of immigration control, border protection, and security systems that are weakened by political corruption. ​

Question 37

What type of trafficking is unlike many of the other forms of trafficking because the goods are durable and may last indefinitely? ​

A)adult human
B)child human
C)firearms
D)counterfeit goods

Question 38

Any crime committed with a computer can be classified as a "cybercrime." ​

Question 39

The business of organized crime is extortion. ​

Question 40

What is the primary mechanism of international arms control? ​

A)weapons passport license
B)end user certificate
C)United Nations certificate
D)international embargo warranty

Question 41

Define and explain the process of bookmaking. ​

Question 42

________ labor involves the use of deceit and/or coercion to facilitate an involuntary status akin to slavery. ​

Question 43

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. ​

Question 44

An individual known commonly referred to as the _____________ provides a readily available outlet for marketing stolen ("hot")merchandise. ​

Question 45

List and explain the three forms in which the connection between organized crime and illegal business can take shape. ​

Question 46

_____________ "book" bets on two types of events: horse races and sporting events. ​

Question 47

A(n)______________ refers to a type of illegal loan that requires a schedule of repayment, including both principal and interest. ​

Question 48

The business of organized crime is _____________, and those criminals who provide goods and services are its victims. ​

Question 49

The oldest form of bookmaking is _____________. ​

Question 50

Trafficking in persons has two broad categories: forced labor and _____________ . ​

Question 51

How does trafficking differ from alien smuggling? ​

Question 52

Criminal activity is facilitated by use of _____________ to secure both communications over networks and stored data on computers . ​

Question 53

_____________ includes a wide array of games of chance and sporting events on which wagers are made. ​

Question 54

What is a botnet ? Explain its role in the commission of cybercrimes by criminal organizations. ​

Question 55

What role does organized crime typically perform in fencing operations? ​