What is RICO?

What will be an ideal response?


The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, usually referred to as RICO, is the most important single piece of legislation ever enacted against organized crime. "RICO's criminal enterprise model represented a new approach in the government's prosecution of organized crime groups."
RICO (Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970) defines racketeering in an extremely broad manner, and includes many offenses that do not ordinarily violate any federal statute: "[A]ny act or threat involving murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, or dealing in narcotic or other dangerous drugs, which is chargeable under State law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year." The thrust of RICO is to prove a pattern of crimes conducted through an organization—an enterprise: "any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact, although not a legal entity.".
In order for racketeering to be a RICO violation, there must be a "pattern," which requires the commission of at least two of the specified crimes within a ten-year period, although, in ruling against anti-abortion activists, the Supreme Court has determined that RICO does not require defendants to have an economic motive. Isolated criminal acts, however, do not constitute a "pattern.".

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A. Accountability B. Competency C. Public Safety D. A and C Only E. All of the above

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______ was a known scientist who was the first offender who was placed on home detention.

a. Charles Darwin b. Albert Einstein c. Galileo Galilei d. Isaac Newton

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Most prisoners are ______, young, members of minority groups, with low education levels

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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In reference to crossover youths, at what point is Adam's practical model supposed to start?

A) right after a sentence has been completed and the offender is released B) right before the treatment plan is established C) right when a youth has crossed over from one process to the other processes D) right after intake

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