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    Combating Organized Crime

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    Combating Organized Crime Combatting organized crime is an exhausting job. Law enforcement must weed through backgrounds and known associates to piece together which criminals are affiliated with which organization and what areas they belong to. In addition to sorting out criminals law enforcement must take a look within. Many criminal organizations pay off police officers‚ political figures and other influential people to maintain their business and low profile. They use these officers to look

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    Mafia vs. Gangs

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    Today‚ many American gangs are formed not only in cities but in suburban neighborhoods as well with the common purpose of dealing drugs. Function A gang usually functions through high levels of organization and within their specific cultures. The Mafia‚ for example‚ was mostly limited to Catholic Italians from Sicily.

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    The Essence of Obedience

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    Alisha Thomas C. Sturm English 102 February 20‚2009 The Essence of obedience The fidelity of ones faith becomes the premise to justify the changing of ones conscience. In many cases people act rationally in pursuit of the “benefits” they pursue from being part of a religious group. There is a term coined for this type of thought process‚ “parochial altruism”-they combine a parochial act (the attacker killing members from other groups) with altruism (the attacker sacrificing themselves

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    Blind Obedience

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    Blind Obedience While sitting in church on Sunday going through the same motions of every Sunday‚ my son leans over to ask‚ "Why do we have to stand up for this prayer?" My response "because we are supposed to". Reading "The Children ’s Story" by James Clavell‚ made me think a little more about this question that I had no answer for. A person needs to be able to explain why he does what he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled

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    power and family; these are the images that have perpetuated the associations of Italian-Americans with the Mafia in film and television for decades. It is in this traditional Godfather fashion that the HBO hit series The Sopranos continues to perpetuate this stereotypical image into the 21st century. From classic films like The Godfather and Goodfellas‚ to miniseries events like Bella Mafia and The Last Don‚ to the dramatic series The Sopranos‚ Italian-Americans have traditionally been portrayed

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    is to show the influence of this crime on the everyday lives of people who are not involved in it. In North America there are so many organized crime groups it is hard to keep up with them and even harder to fight their influence‚ from the Sicilian Mafia to Hells Angels to Chinese Triads it would take an army to fight them all. All organized crime groups operate in basically the same fashion‚ they are "nonideological‚ hierarchical‚ limited or exclusive in membership‚ perpetuitous‚ organized through

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    House of Obedience

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    The Bait-al-taa or House of Obedience is a provision in Islam law which gives husbands the right to demand obedience from their wives. If a woman leaves her husband’s home without his permission he has the right to force her to come back. The husband can claim “nushaz” or disobedience and order her to come back with a qadi (judgement.) Once the woman returns she stays either at her husband’s home or in another living area (House of Obedience) which provides the woman with essential necessities. Divorce

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    Obedience Essays

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    – 3 good point/elaborations | 2) When a teacher tells you to do something‚ it usual for you to obey. Using your knowledge of factors that have been found to affect obedience‚ explain why you might obey in this situation (6 marks). |Have you? Please tick. | |

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    the local police force. The criminal organization may contain many levels of hierarchy. The movies and the television have glamorized organized crime for many years. The “Godfather” was a movie that allowed everyone a glimpse of life within Italian mafia families. The “Sopranos” was a television series that allowed many people to see the mob boss as a type of hero. Organized criminal groups are often operated much like the top Fortune 500 companies. The criminal organizations may use many of the same

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    evolved into a much more sophisticated group of criminals‚ after the betrayal of those who enlisted to work with the government. Later‚ as the Soviet Union fell apart‚ it gave birth to the Red Mafia‚ otherwise known as the Russian Mafia. Previously‚ the Cold War contributed to the augmentation of the Russian Mafia too‚ like Stalin. Ruined‚ Russia’s economy was devastated. Subsequently‚ with

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