Organized Crime and Learning Team
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Week Three: The Evolution of Organized Crime and the Drug Business | | Details | Due | Points | Objectives | 1 2.1 Analyze the social disorganization in mid-19th-century America that created the climate for certain types of organized crime. 2.2 Explain the evolution of organized crime. 2.3 Describe the history, structure, and multinational operating methods of the drug business. 2.4 Analyze the relationship between organized crime, Prohibition, and early drug syndicates. 2.5 Identify changes in the various business interests of organized crime over the last 150 years. 2.6 Explain the role of corrupt political machines in fostering organized crime. | | | Readings | Read the Week Three Read Me First.Read Ch. 3–6 of Organized Crime.Review Ch. 2 of Understanding Organized Crime. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. | | | Participation | Participate in class discussion. | | 2 | Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. | DQ #1 is due on Wednesday (Day 2); DQ #2 is due Friday (Day 4); DQ #3 is due Sunday (Day 6) | 2 | Learning Team Instructions | Review this week’s objectives and discuss additional insights and questions that may have arisen.Review the Organized Crime Group Analysis assignment, due in Week Four.Learning Team Deliverable: Your team must make a 200+ word post on a topic, of your team’s choosing, drawn from the readings. Cite to at least two sources to support your points. Please make the post in your team forum. The post is due by the last day of the class week (Monday). | | 1 (Learning Team Deliv.) | Individual Social Organized Crime Perspective Paper | Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss and explain the term social institution, as it applies to organized crime. Which empirical and speculative theories are most applicable when applied to organized crime and
Week Three: The Evolution of Organized Crime and the Drug Business | | Details | Due | Points | Objectives | 1 2.1 Analyze the social disorganization in mid-19th-century America that created the climate for certain types of organized crime. 2.2 Explain the evolution of organized crime. 2.3 Describe the history, structure, and multinational operating methods of the drug business. 2.4 Analyze the relationship between organized crime, Prohibition, and early drug syndicates. 2.5 Identify changes in the various business interests of organized crime over the last 150 years. 2.6 Explain the role of corrupt political machines in fostering organized crime. | | | Readings | Read the Week Three Read Me First.Read Ch. 3–6 of Organized Crime.Review Ch. 2 of Understanding Organized Crime. Read this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. | | | Participation | Participate in class discussion. | | 2 | Discussion Questions | Respond to weekly discussion questions. | DQ #1 is due on Wednesday (Day 2); DQ #2 is due Friday (Day 4); DQ #3 is due Sunday (Day 6) | 2 | Learning Team Instructions | Review this week’s objectives and discuss additional insights and questions that may have arisen.Review the Organized Crime Group Analysis assignment, due in Week Four.Learning Team Deliverable: Your team must make a 200+ word post on a topic, of your team’s choosing, drawn from the readings. Cite to at least two sources to support your points. Please make the post in your team forum. The post is due by the last day of the class week (Monday). | | 1 (Learning Team Deliv.) | Individual Social Organized Crime Perspective Paper | Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you discuss and explain the term social institution, as it applies to organized crime. Which empirical and speculative theories are most applicable when applied to organized crime and