According to the Task Force on Organized Crime, the core of organized crime activity is:
a. the supplying of illegal goods and services
b. violence
c. both a and b
d. none of these
A
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The laws developed in England in the 18th century were structured to respond effectively to the exploitative and harmful practices of businesses as corporate entities
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The commission formed after the Rodney King incident and the subsequent riots articulated that the Los Angeles Police Department should consider the implementation of community-oriented policing. The name of the commission was the:
a. Gramm-Rudman Commission b. Christopher Commission c. Clinton Commission d. Brann Commission
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Laws and official reporting and recording practices vary significantly across countries. 2. Interpol and the United Nations provide data on what crimes are known to the police across a large number of countries and also about how these crimes are handled—for example, the number or rates of arrests, prosecutions, and convictions. 3. International Consortium of Political and Social Research provides data-sets that focus on deviance and social control domestically and strictly within the United States (or countries allied with the United States). 4. The sociological research and theories described in this book is mostly carried out in the United States or in non-developed Eastern societies. 5. Empirical evidence is not perfectly consistent across countries in research testing Hirschi and Gottfredson’s General Theory of Crime because overall there appears to be a lack of general support across various forms of deviance.
To what extent has DNA technology improved methods of criminal identification?
What will be an ideal response?