LLCU 213 Week Two. Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
How was the term "organized crime" used in the 1840s? - answer✔Describe the revolutionary
Fervour and describe organized crime in Europe
To define the Camorra of Naples
What did George Webb Appleton write about the Revolutionary Fervour in an article published
in Galaxy? - answer✔Naples had the reputation of being ruled by fierce crime, and that all
people within Naples partook in this
But this was not true at all; it was the Camorra, a secret society of sorts, that subjected the rest of
the town to tyranny; Camorra was a specific territory and group of people
In 1862 in colonal India, what did the term organized crime refer to?
What were these groups described as in official documents? - answer✔Referred to gangs of
highway robbers and other predatory crimes
Described as " dangerous fraternities" and "criminal tribes addicted to criminal pursuits"
Describe the Conspiracy of NYC Plumbers
Five years later, what was OC used to describe, as stated by the Brookyln Daily Eagle? -
answer✔1880s
Term organized crime was used to describe NYC plumbers who wanted to raise prices of their
services
Used to describe political trust
What was the term organized crime used to describe by the chairman of the New York Society
for the Prevention of
Crime, Reverend Charles Parkhurst, in 1896? What did this mark the beginning of? -
answer✔Collusion between city officials and brothel owners in Manhattan
Marked the beginning of progressive reform and later in passing alcohol prohibition laws
In 1915, what did the Chicago City Council Committee on Crime use pickpocketers/ dips as an
example of?
In the report what are there several references to and not to? - answer✔Example of professional
criminals with their own history, language, customs, etc. But most importantly, the ability of
such individuals to escape from detection through political corruptness, collusion, violence, etc.
Mentions of mob and gangs but not to organized crime
According to Klaus von Lampe, during what time period did the definition of organized crime
change drastically? - answer✔Prohibition era
How did the definition of organized crime change during the Prohibition era? - answer✔Changed
from amorphous criminal class to gangsters and racketeers organized into gangs, syndications,
and criminal organizations; Then moved to powerful criminal leaders, such as Al Capone
What did piracy and brigand play a major role in? - answer✔Played a major role in the end of the
great Norse venture to Greenland and America; previously, pirates were sacked by English and
Scottish pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa
The great age of piracy in the Atlantic coincided with what? - answer✔Colonizing of the New
World by the Europeans
In The American Way of Crime, what did Browning and Degrassi write about crime? What did
they say crime started with? - answer✔Crime became profitable when it became organized, and
this was due to cooperation and collusion of political officials. Crime became part of American
life
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