What historical factors are related to the prominence of Italians in OC in the US?
What will be an ideal response?
Millions of Italian immigrants arrived in the US between 1891 and 1920, at the peak (soon to wane) of the Robber Baron era, and at the inception of Prohibition. The children grew up in desperate slums.
The Irish immigrants who came before them already controlled the political and economic spheres. In order to beat rival organizations, criminals of Sicilian descent reproduced the kind of illegal groups they had belonged to in the old country.
Italian Prime Minister Mussolini persecuted the mafia in Italy and many came to the US. These factors converged with the opportunities for illegal gain provided by Prohibition to create Italian American organized crime prominence.
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___________________ is an agency that assists the court in deciding whom to release and whom to detain based on validated assessment instruments and a pretrial interview of the defendant.
A. Diversion services B. Probation office C. Pretrial services D. Community action office
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a. federal circuit courts b. U.S. district courts c. courts of appeal d. federal magistrates
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a. True b. False