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Prison Gangs Michael Dooley Aiken Tech CRJ 242.013 Prison Gangs Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized, stealthy and deadly, they are reaching out from their cells to organize and control crime in America's streets. Law enforcement personal began to systematically monitor gang activities in the 1970's. Working together, their initial attempts were to identify only gangs which had some semblance of formal structure, a constitution, bylaws, mission statement, or some identifiable

Law 32 of 2002 requires that prospective societies apply to the Ministry of Social Affairs for a license. One clause of the law forbids members of trade unions and professional syndicates to form any association to pursue activities appropriate to that union or profession (Zubaida 1992: 8). The Ministry of Social Affairs may also refuse the formation of a society because there is no need for it or because an existing society fulfills the same function. Moreover, the Ministry can even dissolve the

they believed that alcohol was often responsible for crime, poverty, and violence against women and children. Since people could not legally buy alcohol from stores, they turned to bootlegging. This meant that they would make, distribute, or sell illicit goods, especially liquor, illegally. Many cities prospered from bootlegging, such as New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago, but they suffered from it as well. The national American crime syndicate, the Mafia, arose out of the coordinated activities

The assigned reading thus far has been able to discuss and elaborate on the factors that are shaping transnational crime and its relations to national security. Four factors that can be considered is the fall of communism, failed governments, advancement in technology and finally economic liberalization. To begin with, the fall of communism lead to a breakdown of political and economic barriers in the world. With this sudden shift, people began to migrate between countries, deregulation of trade

highest cyber crime that has been reported. Love scams and fraudulent online purchases is a familiar cases in our country in this few years, this case reported has been continues increase. Love scams usually occurs on women based on the statistics of the reported case, it also indicates that predators were Africans people. This Africans target is a group unmarried women and a women with marital problems. According to a statement issued by ASP Mohd Syafiq Jinuin Abdullah cyber crime cases such as

dominating the drug industry are the Latin American and majority of Asian, specifically cocaine and heroin production. Global organised crime is evolving and embracing new markets and technologies; moving from the traditional hierarchies towards a more flexible, network based construct of organisation. To a certain extent, the legitimate world is a victim of its own accomplishment; the globalisation of the legal economy has globalised the underworld. This has provided the demands of numerous illicit

The Business of Crime by Humbert S. Nelli The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicate Crime in the United States, written by Humbert S. Nelli, contains the history of Italian criminal organizations in the New World, between 1880 and 1930. The book is divided into three main parts. The first chapter, From Italy's South to America's South, contains the political, social, economic, and cultural background of Italians before they entered in the New World. Also, it describes the beginning of criminal

The central idea of "Endangered Species: The African Elephant" by Gale from Cengage Learning. The central Idea of this passage is elephants are endangered. One reason why elephants are endangered are poachers. The poachers hunt the elephants for their tusks which are ivory, tusks are of great value because they are used in a lot of things such as jewelry or piano keys etc. and there is a large demand for these things so the price for them is high. An example from the text, "This substance has been

“Alcohol didn’t cause the high crime rate of the ‘20s and ‘30s, prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today’s alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does”( Badnarik). Although Congress had great intentions by banning alcohol and drugs, it made living in America that much more difficult. The passage of the 18th amendment contributed to the rise of illegal activities carried out by organized crime syndicates. The 18th amendment states “After one year from the ratification of this article the

prohibition and why organized crime was so powerful, discover just that as well as why the prohibition was implemented, who had the most influence, how people viewed one another at the time, and the factors that lead to the prohibitions lack of success. It was a time of struggle between law enforcement, organized crime and the citizens caught in-between. Overall the main question the collective research intends to answer is “who held all the power, the police, organized crime, or the citizens and how