ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 3 This book talks about the illicit transactions in drugs by organized crime. This book also talks about the risks of organized crime. This book also talks about how organized crime’s interest in gambling began with casino gambling during prohibition and numbers running in inner city areas. Ianni, Francis, A.J. and Elizabeth Reuss-Ianni.
Organized Crime CJA 384 October 28, 2012 Organized crime is systematic, illegal activity for profit. I would describe organized crime as a crime operation in which every move is carefully planned. I have always thought of organized crime as “smart crime,” the type of crime that doesn’t leave traces and the end result leaves everyone involved with significant amounts of cash. Loan sharking, extortion, and racketeering are the types of crimes that I think of as being the most common with these criminal groups. However, drug smuggling and weapons trafficking are also quite common.
The Mexican drug cartel is very structured although some don’t think they are a true cartel they are. Each cartel in each city such as Tijuana, Culiacan has it’s own leader. They manufacture the drugs methamphetamine, cocaine, and grow the marijuana. They then smuggle it into the United States to the big drug dealers wherever they are. They smuggle it because drugs are a huge demand in the United States and they will obtain more money.
When thinking of organized crime two television shows come to mind the sopranos and the wire. Organized crime is a group of individuals regardless of race or gender who work together to obstruct justice working with corrupt individuals in key positions, such as government officials and police officers. These organized criminals work in controlling neighborhoods and cities selling drugs and using force to intimidate people around them. When using force to intimidate the people in the neighborhood and cities the organized criminals run. Force such as assault and murder of individuals to set an example of what will happen to anyone who interferes in the business of the organization such as the mafia is used.
She was a high-priced prostitute. She was arrested in the Hotel and her client was a cop. She had a cocaine, she got it
He explains how it's a very risky job and was very competitive with other gang leaders. He also tells her he has been involved in robbing banks. He says that the tasks he completes reward him with lots of cash. He receives these tasks from Al Capone. Al Capone was the most famous gangster in Chicago during the 1920’s.
Since the bank has permitted billions to be laundered, it is now faces penalties of billions of dollars. The senate is also accusing HSBC of overlooking signs and warnings that would have clogged the money laundering from place like Iran and Mexico. The senate report alleges that from 2005, the HSBC violated the Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-money laundering laws on a massive scale. Many of the issues is that the bank maintained high risk account affiliated with suspected Mexican drug cartels such as the Casa de Cambio which is a place in Mexico for money laundering. And large cash transactions connected to Iran and other international countries under the U.S. economic sanctions.
These new gang chapters sometimes become rivals to the original gang (Major Prison Gangs). Prison gangs are responsible for a wide varity of illegal activities. Along with offering protection to its gang members, prison gangs handle the drug, tobacco, and alcohol trafficking inside the prison. They are able and often bribe or scare other inmates and staff to “look the other way” as they commit their crimes. Larger prison gangs can even influence organized crime outside of prison.
These organizations are located all over the world and they help supply the United States with cocaine. The largest and most powerful organization is the Sinaloa Cartel. (CNS News, 2010) This organization is known for its show of force when it comes to controlling drug routes. In 2010, “U.S. Intelligence says Sinaloa Cartel has won battle for Ciudad Juarez drug routes.”(CNS News, 2010) At the end of year 2010, 3,622 homicides were recorded in Ciudad Juarez.
1. What is a typology? What are some of the typologies of violent crime that this module discusses? * Typology is classifying offenses or offenders by some relatedness, criteria, or similarity, arranging some offenders as normal, abnormal, habitual, or professional...extending from insane to petty offenders. Typology for crime uses defined characteristics, such as motivation, situation, behavior-both victim and offender-, and aspects unique to the offense.