Bakersfield College
Crim B10
Organized Crime
Chapter 1 Quiz
Name: ______Date Due: 1/29/18
Select the best answer from the selections provided. Answer on a Scan-Tron 882E
1. The 1972 movie ______, starring Marlon Brando, depicted organized crime.
a. The Underworld
b. The Black Dahlia
c. The Choir Boys
d. The Godfather
2. The National Criminal Intelligence Service (2005) describes organized crime as having four salient attributes, which include all of the following except:
a. An organized crime group contains at least three people.
b. The group, or at least one member, commits murder or aggravated assault.
c. The group is motivated by a desire for profit or power.
d. The group commits serious criminal offenses.
3. Organized crime profits by trafficking women across international borders for prostitution and often uses women as ______in the drug trade during transit.
a. mules
b. horses
c. cows
d. oxen
4. Unlike street criminals or even professional criminals, organized criminals work together on a
______basis in illegal enterprises.
a. friendly
b. need to know
c. continuous
d. supply and demand
5. Organized crime exists for one primary purpose: ______.
a. to beat the criminal justice system
b. to make a profit
c. to get away with murder
d. to protect each other from other organizations
6. The Italian Mafia grew and developed during the reign of fascist dictator Benito ______in the 1920s.
a. Juarez
b. Ciccio
c. Mori
d. Mussolini
7. Representing the core of the organized crime unit, the ______is made up of persons who utilize criminality and violence and are willing to corrupt in order to gain power and profit.
a. Pizza Connection
b. Koran
c. Sicilian orthodox
d. Criminal Group
8. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the criminal group?
a. Continuity
b. Structure
c. Membership
d. Transparency
9. A corrupt public official is a “______.”
a. protector
b. punisher
c. eraser
d. motivator
10. According to Reuter (1983), in New York, no one group exercises control over entrepreneurs in gambling and loan-sharking.
a. True
b. False
c. I don’t know
d. Who the heck is Reutter?
11. Organized crime is made up of a series of highly adaptive, flexible networks that readily take into account ______.
a. hard targeting
b. new opportunities for distribution
c. perceptional blindness
d. new law enforcement hiring strategies
12. The President’s Commission on Organized Crime was established to study the nature and extent of organized crime in the United States and to develop strategies and recommendations to combat it.
a. True
b. False
c. The President has a Commission?
d. The President is Organized Crime.
13. ______are composed of persons who purchase organized crime’s illegal goods and services, such as drug users, patrons of bookmakers, and prostitution rings, and people who knowingly purchase stolen goods.
a. Specialized supporters
b. Social supporters
c. Crime groups
d. User supporters
14. Organized crime organizations manipulate and control legitimate industries like trash hauling.
a. True
b. False
15. Law enforcement priorities shifted in 2001 with the 9/11 attacks, which also resulted in an end to transnational organized crime.
a. True
b. False
16. The 1990s and the early twenty-first century witnessed an increased sophistication in the crimes associated with the global drug trade.
a. True
b. False
17. The impact of globalization is the same everywhere.
a. True
b. False
18. Organized crime and legitimate business can produce their goods and services more cheaply if they have a wider international reach.
a. True
b. False
19. One view of the Mafia states that violent crime, organized and ruthless, was transplanted to the United States from Sicily.
a. True
b. False
20. In drug trafficking, the production, importation, distribution, and retail activities are kept as discrete functions, often performed by completely different organized crime groups, most of which are both temporary and small.
a. True
b. False
21. Membership is not a characteristic of the criminal group.
a. True
b. False
22. By 1983, the FBI boasted that since 1979 the government had convicted almost 500 predominantly Italian criminals and their associates as the result of organized crime investigations.
a. True
b. False
23. The offering of illicit services represents one of the main enterprises of organized crime organizations.
a. True
b. False