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How was the term "organized crime" used in the 1840s? - Answer Describe the
revolutionary Fervour and describe organized crime in Europe
To define the Camorra of Naples
What did George Webb Appleton write about the Revolutionary Fervour in an article
published in Galaxy? - Answer Naples had the reputation of being ruled by fierce crime,
and that all people within Naples partook in this
But this was not true at all; it was the Camorra, a secret society of sorts, that subjected
the rest of the town to tyranny; Camorra was a specific territory and group of people
In 1862 in colonal India, what did the term organized crime refer to?
What were these groups described as in official documents? - Answer Referred to
gangs of highway robbers and other predatory crimes
Described as " dangerous fraternities" and "criminal tribes addicted to criminal
pursuits"
Describe the Conspiracy of NYC Plumbers
Five years later, what was OC used to describe, as stated by the Brookyln Daily Eagle? -
Answer 1880s
Term organized crime was used to describe NYC plumbers who wanted to raise prices
of their services
Used to describe political trust
What was the term organized crime used to describe by the chairman of the New York
Society for the Prevention of
Crime, Reverend Charles Parkhurst, in 1896? What did this mark the beginning of? -
Answer Collusion between city officials and brothel owners in Manhattan
Marked the beginning of progressive reform and later in passing alcohol prohibition
laws
In 1915, what did the Chicago City Council Committee on Crime use pickpocketers/ dips
as an example of?
, In the report what are there several references to and not to? - Answer Example of
professional criminals with their own history, language, customs, etc. But most
importantly, the ability of such individuals to escape from detection through political
corruptness, collusion, violence, etc.
Mentions of mob and gangs but not to organized crime
According to Klaus von Lampe, during what time period did the definition of organized
crime change drastically? - Answer Prohibition era
How did the definition of organized crime change during the Prohibition era? - Answer
Changed from amorphous criminal class to gangsters and racketeers organized into
gangs, syndications, and criminal organizations; Then moved to powerful criminal
leaders, such as Al Capone
What did piracy and brigand play a major role in? - Answer Played a major role in the
end of the great Norse venture to Greenland and America; previously, pirates were
sacked by English and Scottish pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa
The great age of piracy in the Atlantic coincided with what? - Answer Colonizing of the
New World by the Europeans
In The American Way of Crime, what did Browning and Degrassi write about crime?
What did they say crime started with? - Answer Crime became profitable when it
became organized, and this was due to cooperation and collusion of political officials.
Crime became part of American life
Started not with prohibition, but with colonial pirates
Organized crime in North American acted as what to something that was homegrown? -
Answer Foreign import
What did Raymond Moley comment on rackets? - Answer Rackets are as old as human
history; not for Helen, but to suppress Troy and the Greeks from launching thousands of
ships
What did Raymond Moley comment on about why the feudal system was a good racket? -
Answer Peasant had to pay his lord a portion of his earned money, in compensation for
protection.
Overlord had to assert dominance over a certain area; if the peasant refused to pay the
overlord, he would be driven out or property would be destroyed
Who did Raymond Moley specifically list as racketeers? - Answer Pirates
What did Raymond Moley say that real profits of piracy came from? - Answer Not from
stealing goods but rather from gathering costs for immunity
What can be said is the first form of organized crime operating in North America? -
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