Exam: Based on Specific Topics

- Transnational organized crime
- 1920s Italian-American organized crime
- Mexican organized crime
- Great Depression and Prohibition impact on organized crime

Question 1: Provide an overview of a domestic or Transnational organized criminal organization other than the Mafia analyzing the type of criminal activity in which they are engaged and then judging its success.

Note: This Exam Question is directly connected to the following Course Learning Objectives:

Justify the importance of individual attributes of organized crime;
Assess Transnational Organized Crime's ability to continue flourishing through the application of criminological theory

Question 2: Assess what if any impact the growth of the Internet has had on organized crime during the past 2 decades

Note: This Exam Question is directly connected to the following Course Learning Objective:

Interpret the historical and socio-political patterns of organized crime in the United States.

Question 3: Analyze why methamphetamine has proven to be a profitable drug for Mexican organized crime. Conclude your response by including (and justifying) a number of steps you believe Mexican and U.S. lawmakers must take if the production of this drug is to be curbed.

Note: This Exam Question is directly connected to the following Course Learning Objective:

Appraise the varieties and characteristics of transnational organized crime

Question 4: Interpret how the onset of the Great Depression (i.e., in the U.S.) and the end of Prohibition affected organized crime?

Note: This Exam Question is directly connected to the following Course Learning Objective:

Interpret the historical and socio-political patterns of organized crime in the United States