1. Organized Crime 1

2. Administrative Give quiz
Any questions about where we are or what we are doing?
Will return paper proposals at the end of class
Is there anyone who has a paper proposal to turn in now?
Should I stay in this class? 2

3. Review Murder in the US and elsewhere Creation of the stalking myth
Laws rushed to passage without thinking through the implications
Most stalking nonviolent and most by men trying to continue domestic relationships
The John Hinckley affair

4. Today The Organized Crime Myth The Mafia story and U.S. Culture
New Businesses of Organized Crime
State-organized Crime
Alternative solutions
Key Ideas from Today

5. I. The Organized Crime Myth
Define the term – organized crime
What kinds of criminal activities are involved? 5

6. I. The Organized Crime Myth
What is the “Mafia?”
What is the “Syndicate?”
What is the “Cosa Nostra?”
The Mafia Myth in the United States 6

7. II. The Mafia Story and U.S. Culture
Why was the Mafia story so easy to establish and hard to eliminate in the United States?
What is the alternative narrative to the organized crime myth?
How is organized crime organized? 7

8. III. New Businesses of Organized Crime
Crime has internationalized
Relatively new businesses
Arms trafficking
Contraband smuggling
Illegal dumping of hazardous wastes 8

9. IV. State-Organized Crimes
What is a state-organized crime?
Examples?
Does government actively attempt to eliminate or reduce this behavior? 9

10. V. Alternative Solutions
How do we try to address this problem now?
Given the nature of organized crime, what solutions might be successful? 10

11. VI. Key Ideas from Today Organized crime myth
Truth is that organized crime provides things for which there is demand
Difficult to reduce without reducing demand 11

12. Next Time
Corporate and White-Collar Crime