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    Organized crime in the United States pre Nineteen Twenties consisted of gambling, prostitution, and theft. However, crime syndicates not only in the United States but all across the world began to change as prohibition of alcohol spread. In the year Nineteen Seventeen the Volstead Act or National Prohibition Act was passed by congress and later became officially established as the Eighteenth Amendment in Nineteen Nineteen. The Amendment established that after one year of any activity related to…

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    Club Descriptive Writing

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    The house of the mad hatter was that notorious nightclub you always passed by going to school as a kid but was constantly warned about. It's been where hookers, pimps, and mafia men alike lingered. And it wasn't like it was an "exclusive VIP" type situation where only the black market businessmen were allowed in, it was open to the public but with a hefty price to your reputation. Unfortunately, your friends were not always the brightest and decided for your first time at a club should be…

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    after godfathers. (bonanno, colombo,gambino,genovese) When bootlegging ended in 1932 with the 18 amendment they switched to what they used to do to gambling and prostitution,drug distribution as well. American crime was very big with new york and chicago in the center of all the crime. The history of al capone is a very interesting lifestyle and dangerous one. Considered the biggest ever mafioso in the americas he was at top of the world at one time. He used a lot of tricks he learned in…

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    Imagine being a sixteen year old, running away from home not knowing what the future holds and struggling to keep a roof over your head. But later on becoming the most successful check forger in the world, well meet Frank W. Abagnale. Frank Abagnale whose story is told through the actor Leonardo Dicaprio in the movie Catch Me If You Can is seen traveling from the United States and France which included many different states in the U.S. is witnessed using different lies and deception to get his…

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    A individual that has been influence with a organization can be manipulate different ways that can have different outcomes. It 's easy to have someone be manipulate to do something that could have consequence for the victim or even themselves. The play Oleanna have some type organization or group related and it could also have some kind of common to gang relates. They both have similar type of manipulation that both have a cause and effect. They have a leader that lead them each step and they…

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    trafficking is the world’s fastest growing global crime. It involves transporting, recruiting, and harbouring of persons through the use of force, abduction, deception, abuse of power, and vulnerability of others for the purpose of exploitation and personal profit. Each year millions of women, men, and children are victims of this crime, however, especially children and women. Human trafficking is illegal worldwide but continues to occur everywhere. This crime robs victims of basic human rights…

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    Entrapment Strategies

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    The blatant disregard for the human life is obvious in their use of human beings as tools to get more funding. Entrapment is a legal term that not too many people are familiar with, it is the illegal act of luring an individual into committing a crime that they would not have committed otherwise and then prosecuting them for it. The FBI has been employing these strategies in order to create terrorist…

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    Mafia Theory In America

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    American history. Fast cars, flappers, the Charleston, jazz, and gangsterism in America were all fresh on the scene. But there was nothing new about organized crime, the Mafia itself technically only came into existence for the sole purpose of protecting each other from corruption. On January 17, 1920 the history of America and the way that organized…

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    Organized Crime

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    Organized crime is a dilemma on an international scale that has many adverse effects on society, including human safety, risking peace, and the economic, social, cultural, political and civil development of the countries operates within. Organized crime has penetrated society through intimidation, entrance into governmental positions, and bribery, to human trafficking, firearms, and narcotics, along with the facilitation of money laundering and extreme violence. Organized crime has grown…

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    Stabbed, dead, and bleeding out. Would you believe you killed a man or just hilusinating if you looked down and were starring at a cold stoned faced Soc? In the Outsiders by S.E Hinton your sterotypical poor trouble makers known as the Greasers and rich popular kids the Socs constantly clash while teaching you valuable lessons. Lessons about family and loyalty are shown through out the Greasers lifestyle. The books major conflict consists of the the two groups of the Greasers and Socs…

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