Domestic Organized Crime
Recently the method by which black criminals have gained control of criminal rackets is through ________ distribution.
drug
Whatever the reasons, the promise of mutual benefit is the foundation of transnational ________ between criminal organizations.
strategic alliances
Most acts of terrorism have three basic participants: the perpetrator, the victim, and the ________.
audience affected
It has been common throughout the history of organized crime for a series of exchanges between the underworld and ________ to develop into a long-term corrupt relationship.
upper-world
One of the most important organized crime groups of the 1930s and 1940s was the ________.
Forty Thieves
Who contracted with the Mexicans to move cocaine into the United States?
Colombians
The ________ case illustrates the power of domestic terrorism, even though the crimes in this case were most likely perpetuated by a lone individual.
Unibomber
A basic characteristic of organized crime is that it depends on ________ for survival and continued profitability.
the corruption of government officials
________ motorcycle gangs originally formed during the late 1940s as loose-knit, rowdy groups made up of disgruntled World War II veterans.
Outlaw
Canadian and U.S. law enforcement intelligence analysts report that the ________ has become the most active Asian criminal organization in the world.
Big Circle gang
Which terrorist organization has effectively managed its strategic branding by using online media tools to disseminate its vision of the caliphate?
ISIS
In May 1999, two companies, Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd. and BASF AG, agreed to plead guilty to charges of fixing the prices of what?
Vitamins
Who ran a numbers racket in Pittsburgh and was also the owner of a black baseball team, the Pittsburgh Crawfords?
William “Gus” Greenlee
________ organizations are also heavily involved in the international trafficking of human beings, particularly foreign workers for the Japanese construction industry and foreign women.
Yakuza
In its efforts to depose the Taliban, the United States allied with warlords of the Northern Alliance, traditional ________ producers.
opium
Who was Ronald Reagan’s most trusted adviser?
Senator Paul Laxalt
Who established a heroin importation and distribution network made up of black Vietnam veterans?
Frank Lucas
According to Schmidt (1993) the term Mafiya is overused in Russia, because whenever even the smallest merchant offers a product that is perceived as being too expensive, customers make a face and say ________.
“The Mafia”
Which terrorist organization has a paramilitary arm, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which, beginning in the 1990s, has conducted many anti-Israeli attacks in Israel and the Palestinian territories?
HAMAS
The single greatest case of fraud in the history of crime was the ________, which some analysts see as the natural result of the ethos of greed promulgated by the Reagan administration.
savings and loan scandal of the 1980s