Organized Crime Final
CRIMJ 3320
FINAL EXAM
1. Discuss how the Internal Revenue Code, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, the Hobbs Act and the RICO Act are used against organized crime. Give historic details of the ACTS and its effect on organized crime.
The Internal Revenue Code is found as Title 26 of the United States Code, a collection of all federal laws. The code was also amended in 1986, and was given the official name of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. These are all the federal tax laws, the code itself was written back in 1939 and later revised in 1954.
The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 is a standing United States federal law that, with require the pharmaceutical industry to maintain physical security and strict record keeping for certain types of drugs. This law like many others is in constant change to help adapt to all legal needs.
Although the Hobbs Act was decreed as a statute to battle racketeering in labor-management disputes, the statute is commonly used in connection with cases about public corruption, commercial disputes, and corruption these are usually geared towards members of labor unions. This act criminalizes robbery and extortion, it defined "robbery" as the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his/her will, and "extortion" as obtaining property from another, with his/her consent, encouraged by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as the RICO Act is a United States federal law that gives extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts made as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them.
All these laws have
FINAL EXAM
1. Discuss how the Internal Revenue Code, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, the Hobbs Act and the RICO Act are used against organized crime. Give historic details of the ACTS and its effect on organized crime.
The Internal Revenue Code is found as Title 26 of the United States Code, a collection of all federal laws. The code was also amended in 1986, and was given the official name of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. These are all the federal tax laws, the code itself was written back in 1939 and later revised in 1954.
The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 is a standing United States federal law that, with require the pharmaceutical industry to maintain physical security and strict record keeping for certain types of drugs. This law like many others is in constant change to help adapt to all legal needs.
Although the Hobbs Act was decreed as a statute to battle racketeering in labor-management disputes, the statute is commonly used in connection with cases about public corruption, commercial disputes, and corruption these are usually geared towards members of labor unions. This act criminalizes robbery and extortion, it defined "robbery" as the unlawful taking or obtaining of personal property from the person or in the presence of another, against his/her will, and "extortion" as obtaining property from another, with his/her consent, encouraged by wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or fear, or under color of official right.
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as the RICO Act is a United States federal law that gives extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts made as part of an ongoing criminal organization. The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them.
All these laws have