1. in 2010, the Estimated Economic Impact of Organized Crime Was Approximately ______

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Criminal Justice 10

Quiz 4

NAME: ______Date Due: 3/14/16
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Chapter 5:

1. In 2010, the estimated economic impact of organized crime was approximately ______.

a. $1 trillion per year b. $2 trillion per year

c. $ 100 billion per year d. $200 billion per year

2. On March 18, 1996, the first 1,800 police officers graduated from a new-style New York City Police Academy that focused on anticorruption training.

a. True b. False

3. One of the more notable prostitution cases involved California-based prostitute and madam

______.

a. Martha Stewart b. Linda Lovelace

c. Heidi Fleiss d. Judith Mann

4. Prostitution operates in virtually every city in the United States.

a. True b. False

5. Recent evidence has demonstrated increasing involvement in the ______by Korean and Chinese organized crime groups

a. Netherlands b. massage parlor trade

c. piracy of movies d. rice trade

6. Where is most of the Ecstasy that is available in the U.S. market produced?

a. Mexico b. United States

c. Netherlands d. Columbia

7. Drug wholesalers receive imported drugs of high degrees of purity and therefore must ______the purchased drugs.

a. kick b. step on

c. throw d. pull

8. Although organized crime occasionally runs casino-type games, its primary gambling income comes from ______and bookmaking.

a. the numbers game b. poker tables

c. online poker games d. book selling

9. From a gross dollar standpoint, what is considered the king of bookmaking?

a. poker bets b. dog wagering

c. horse wagering d. sports betting

10. Perhaps the most disturbing claim made against the more sophisticated organized crime groups is the one suggesting that these organizations are infiltrating and controlling large areas of legitimate business through ______.

a. surreptitious videotaping b. designs and artifices

c. business racketeering d. serial laundering

11. Organized crime involvement in ______crime is becoming one of its most lucrative and fast-growing new markets.

a. street b. community

c. environmental d. violent

12. Organized crime earns over $30 billion annually from illegal ______and trafficking in outlawed or protected natural resources.

a. dumping b. poaching

c. inclusion d. panoply

13. Organized crime’s ______services provide businesses with potent weapons for harassing competitors and/or securing favorable employee contracts.

a. prostitution b. racketeering

c. false identification d. tax evasion

14. In brief, ______is the process by which criminal profits are made to appear legitimate.

a. racketeering b. interdiction

c. gray marketing d. money laundering

15. The businesses in which organized crime is involved is not varied. They engage in just two or three areas of crime.

a. True b. False

16. Corruption is a plus, but not integral to organized crime.

a. True b. False

17. Cocaine consumption in the United States, (formerly the world’s largest market,) has declined considerably since its peak in the late 1980s.

a. True b. False

18. Heroin abuse in the United States increased significantly in the early to mid-1990s and has continued to spread to rural American communities in 2013.

a. True b. False

19. Labor racketeering has become one of La Cosa Nostra’s fundamental sources of profit, national power, and influence.

a. True b. False

20. One of the least common methods of money laundering is called Black Market Peso Exchange.

a. True b. False