Basic Organized Crime Concepts
Crimes against humanity and fundamental human rights, war crimes, and genocide are examples of?
What is International Crime
Group of interdependent actors in which there is a clear ranking among participants that distinguishes leaders from other members of the criminal enterprise.
What is Standard Hierarchy
The illegal transporting and transacting in controlled substances.
What is Drug Trafficking
Organizations whose members use their motorcycle clubs as conduits for criminal enterprises.
What is Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
A crime of theft on the high seas that carries the danger of significant environmental damage.
What is Piracy
This type of crime involves offenses that cross international borders or which affect the interests of more than one state.
What is Transnational Crime
_____ Hierarchy differs from the Standard Hierarchy in terms of influence, but they carry out the same activities. Local organizations which operate within the group are granted independence and autonomy.
What is Regional Hierarchy
The federal offense of transporting illegal controlled substances from one country into another.
What is Drug Smuggling
Refers to the taking, trading (supplying, selling or trafficking), importing, exporting, processing, possessing, obtaining and consumption of wild fauna and flora, including timber and other forest products, in contravention of national or international law.
What is Wildlife Crime
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is Globalization
A continuing criminal enterprise that rationally works to profit from illicit activities that are often in great public demand.
What is Organized Crime
This structure consists of criminal groups with equal decision-making rights, which are responsible for their actions before one body. These criminal groups have put in place an arrangement that assists in managing their activities in a coordinated way.
What is Clustered Hierarchy
The illicit trade of contraband small arms and ammunition, which constitutes part of a broad range of illegal activities often associated with transnational criminal organizations.
What is Arms Trafficking
These organized criminals remain loose-knit social entities that are primarily involved in street- level crimes.
What is Street Gangs?
____ has social, moral, and legal implications and can be defined as any sexual exchange in which the reward is neither sexual nor affectional.
What is Prostitution
Organized crime can involve violence and coercion, but the objective in organized crime remains ____?
What is Profit
Unstructured group of organized criminals surrounded by a large network of associated individuals involved in criminal activity. Possibility for other members or outside criminal networks to be activated, but only when necessary.
What is Core Group
The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.
What is Human Trafficking
A corporate entity that exists into perpetuity. Its membership is restrictive, mutually exclusive, and often requires a lifetime commitment.
What is Prison Gangs
Certain consumer goods, especially very expensive or desirable brands or those that are easy to reproduce cheaply, have become frequent and common targets of?
What is Counterfeiting
The realization that not a single country, no matter how powerful, can fight organized crime across borders in isolation, led to the passage of the United Nations Convention against ______?
What is Transnational Organized Crime
Members' activities as individuals construct this group. The individuals participating at a given time are the ones who determine the shape, organization, and membership of this ______.
What is Criminal Network
Facilitation, for financial or other material gain, of irregular entry into a country where the migrant is not a national or citizen.
What is Human Smuggling
Disguising financial assets so they can be used without detection of the illegal activity that produced them.
What is Money Laundering
Provides money at a high interest rate to people who, for a variety of reasons, have little choice but to go to such sources in search of financial support.
What is Loan Sharking