Across
- 6. The code of honor, silence, and obedience—a code that renders loyalty to the organization above loyalty to country, God, or family and whose violation means death.
- 10. Refers to making clean or washing “dirty money.”
- 11. The most powerful legislation ever passed to attack organized crime. It was passed in 1970.
- 15. The largest business in Mexico, and their profits are estimated to exceed the U.S. defense budget for the Iraq War.
- 19. Any criminal activity involving two or more individuals.
- 21. Directed at controlling money laundering. It was passed in 1970.
- 23. One who illegally lends money at usurious interest rates.
- 24. Was a major Colombian drug trafficking organization.
- 26. Viewed as the number one money-maker for organized crime.
- 27. Hiding or not counting money earned, for tax purposes.
- 29. A theory of the organizational structure of syndicate crime (The Cressey Model); conspiracy theory.
Down
- 1. Dishonest practices, particularly in the labor sector.
- 2. Use of multiple methodologies in the same study.
- 3. The use of “bugs” and wiretapping in covert eavesdropping, is viewed as one of the most effective weapons against organized crime.
- 4. Views organized crime as a set of shifting alliances, a client-patron relationship (The Albini Model).
- 5. Refers to criminal activities that take place in more than one country.
- 7. Argues that organized crime and normal business are similar activities on different ends of a spectrum of legitimacy (Smith).
- 8. FBI director who became personally corrupt and tainted by his ties to organized crime.
- 9. Statute of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970. It prohibits the use of the proceeds from criminal operations from being used to acquire legitimate operations.
- 12. An illegal game of betting on numbers.
- 13. The belief that organized crime has been a ladder of mobility for a succession of ethnic groups.
- 14. Identified four types of gang members: legits, homeboys, dope fiends, and new jacks.
- 16. Refers to a method—a syndicate-type organized crime.
- 17. Is now the largest illegal business of organized criminals.
- 18. A term for describing the Russian Mafia.
- 20. A 1940s antiracketeering act that holds that any interference with interstate commerce is a violation.
- 22. Laws that require that property obtained through criminal activity is surrendered to the state.
- 25. The belief that organized crime is the product of an alien conspiracy.
- 28. Japanese organized crime groups (literally, “good-for-nothings”).
- 30. Chinese organized crime groups.