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From the e-Activity, explain the irugins of organized crime, its several forms,and critically evaluate the means by which law enforcement agencies have been able to combat it. Provide a rationale for your response. Analyze the definition, types, and national extent of street gangs. Provide your opinion on whether or not the law enforcement strategies being employed against gangs are successful. Justify your response.
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Pursuing Criminal Syndicates - Outline
Thesis statement: Types of criminal organizations
1. Organized crime
2. Definition, types, and national extent of street gangs
Running head: PURSUING CRIMINAL SYNDICATES
Pursuing Criminal Syndicates
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Pursuing Criminal Syndicates
Organized crime was as a result of the prohibition era of the early 20th Century in the
United States. The efforts of the government to impose the Volstead Act of 1920 caused the
development of very structured bootlegging rings with international and nationwide
networks. Dominant gangs infiltrated local law-enforcement agencies, even penetrating highranking politicians and judges. Eventually, community repulsion, boosted by the
investigations of the Wickersham Commission of 1930 including several public revelations
resulted in a crackdown on p...
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