DB 5.1

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?