Organized Crime in Our Times

Of Similarities -- Critical Thinking Exercise 7.1: The Case of the Unmaking of a Mobster -- Changing Organized Crime Patterns -- International Stolen Vehicle Smuggling -- International Drug Smuggling -- International Human Trafficking -- Computer and Internet Crime -- Hijacking -- Critical Thinking Exercise 7.2: The Case of Tracking Immigrants within Our Own Borders -- Summary -- Organized Crime Biography: Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia -- Organized Crime at the Movies: The Departed -- References to Chapter 7 -- 8 Transnational Organized Crime -- The Scope of Transnational Crime -- Using Ethnicity to Explain Organized Crime? -- The Ethnicity Trap -- Criminal Networks versus Organizations -- Transnational Organized Crime Groups -- Providing Illicit Services -- Gambling and Loansharking -- Human Trafficking and Prostitution -- Providing Illicit Goods -- Drugs -- Stolen Property -- Infiltrating Legitimate Business -- Critical Thinking Exercise 8.1: The Case of the Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud -- Racketeering -- Extortion -- Critical Thinking Exercise 8.2: The Case of Video Slot Machines -- Crimes against Government -- Corruption -- Terrorism Connections -- Summary -- Organized Crime Biography: McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld -- Organized Crime at the Movies: Blood Diamond -- References to Chapter 8 -- 9 Investigative Tools -- Investigators of Organized Crime -- Investigative Techniques and Intelligence Gathering -- Financial Analysis -- Critical Thinking Exercise 9.1: The Case from Charlotte to Hezbollah -- Electronic Surveillance -- Informants -- Undercover Agents -- Citizens Commissions -- Critical Thinking Exercise 9.2: The Case of Standing Next to a Pay Phone -- Summary -- Organized Crime Biography: Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family.