Deck 2: Conspiracy and Provision of Illicit Goods and Services

Question 1

Why is conspiracy the offense most characteristic of organized crime?

Answer 1

It punishes the planning to commit a crime This planning aspect of organized crime is what distinguishes it from street crimes

Question 2

How does the provision of illicit goods and services include conspiracy?

Answer 2

The provision of illicit goods or services includes conspiracy because they involve the organized or planned provision of illegal drugs, stolen property, gambling, loansharking, or sex

Question 3

What are the two other distinct offenses that characterize organized crime?

Answer 3

Extortion and racketeering see Table 21 in the text These offenses are discussed further in Chapter 3

Question 4

What is conspiracy?

Question 5

What are the facts of United States v Auerbach and Helish?

Question 6

What was the legal issue in this case?

Question 7

How did the court rule, and why?

Question 8

What are the facts of United States v Bourjaily Bourjaily ?

Question 9

What was the legal issue?

Question 10

What did the court hold, and why?

Question 11

Why is an act required for conspiracy if it is supposed to punish the the planning of a crime?

Question 12

What are the facts of United States v Shabani ?

Question 13

What was the legal issue in this case?

Question 14

What did the court hold and why?

Question 15

What are the facts of United States v Schweihs and Daddino?

Question 16

What was the legal issue in this case?
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Question 17

What did the court hold, and why?

Question 18

Why is the law so stringent regarding the actions required to withdraw effectively from a conspiracy?

Question 19

What is the provision of illicit goods e.g., drugs and stolen property) marked by the crime of conspiracy?

Question 20

What are the facts of United States v Teffera?

Question 21

What was the legal issue in this case?

Question 22

What was the Court's finding, and why?

Question 23

Why wasn't the expert testimony about "mules" in drug cases dispositive in this case?

Question 24

What investigative methods might have made this case successful?

Question 25

What is the primary issue that arises in stolen property cases?

Question 26

What were the facts of United States v Rosa ?

Question 27

What was the legal issue in this case?

Question 28

What did the Court hold and why?

Question 29

What were the facts of United States v Stuart ?

Question 30

What was the legal issue in this case?

Question 31

What did the Court hold and why?

Question 32

How does stolen property directly support organized crime?

Question 33

How does public demand make the provision of illicit goods possible?

Question 34

What is gambling?

Question 35

How were the vacillating attitudes toward gambling during the 1600s and 1700s similar to those of today?

Question 36

Why has gambling always attracted a disproportionate number of poor people?

Question 37

How is gambling distinguished from alcoholic beverage consumption and illegal drugs as public policy issues?

Question 38

Why was there growing public mistrust of government-endorsed gambling during the 1800s?

Question 39

How can the beginnings of organized crime involvement in gambling be characterized as the result of a successful campaign by reformers to prohibit gaming enterprises?

Question 40

Why did legalized gambling make a return, beginning in the 1930s?

Question 41

What were the facts and legal issue of United States v Edge Broadcasting?

Question 42

What was the Court's finding and rationale?

Question 43

What are the facts of United States v Murray?

Question 44

What is required to convict someone of illegal gambling under federal law?

Question 45

What was the finding and rationale in the Murray case?

Question 46

What are the facts of of United States v. Follin?

Question 47

What was the legal issue?

Question 48

What did the Court hold and why?

Question 49

What is loansharking, and how does it support organized crime?

Question 50

What are the facts of United States v. Eufrasio?

Question 51

What was the legal issue?

Question 52

What was the Court's holding and why?

Question 53

How are sex and organized crime linked?

Question 54

How does prostitution become part of organized crime?

Question 55

What were the facts of United States v. Holcomb?

Question 56

What was the legal issue in this case?

Question 57

What was the Court's finding?

Question 58

What were the facts of United States v. Sigalow?

Question 59

What was the legal issue and finding here?

Question 60

What is the difference between obscenity and pornography?

Question 61

What is the current legal definition of obscenity as defined by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973)?

Question 62

What is the problem with such a national definition of obscenity?

Question 63

How is offensive material broadcast on radio or television not protected in the same way as the same material available in books, magazines, or videos?

Question 64

How has the U.S. Supreme Court revised its definition of obscenity in cases of child pornography?

Question 65

What are the enforcement records in obscenity cases?

Question 66

What is the Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation Act of 1977?

Question 67

What are the facts of United States v. X-Citement Video (1994)?

Question 68

What was the legal issue?

Question 69

What was the Court's finding?

Question 70

Characterize trends in the role of organized crime in prostitution?

Question 71

How has the Internet made the pornography business much easier?

Question 72

Why has Congress had difficulty making effective laws to regulate pornography transmitted via the Internet?