Assignment Details
Part I
Respond to the following questions:
- What examples of organized crime can you find in the United States?
- What factors contribute to the existence of the criminal organizations you described?
- Provide examples of the ways in which the U.S. criminal justice system is dealing with the types of organized crime that you found.
- What law enforcement agencies are involved?
- How do those law enforcement agencies work to control organized crime?
Part II
Suggestions for responding to peer posts:
- Review peers’ posts that used examples of different types of organized crime than the ones that you found.
- Were some of the factors that he or she believes contributed to these crimes the same? What different factors were mentioned?
- Are the methods of dealing with this type of organized crime different from those devised to deal with the type of organized crime that you found?