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	ipedia.com: Organized crime Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Many organized crime operations have substantial legitimate businesses, such as licensed gambling, building construction, trash hauling or dockloading which operate in parallel with and provide "cover" for drug trafficking, money laundering, prostitution, extortion and insider trading.
		This is especially true of organized crime groups that engage in human trafficking.
		In addition to what is considered traditional organized crime involving direct crimes of fraud swindles, scams, racketeering and other RICO predicate acts motivated for the accumulation of monetary gain, there's also non-traditional organized crime which is motivated for political or ideological gain or acceptance.
	www.ipedia.com /organized_crime.html (440 words)

	Organized crime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations.
		In the U.S., organized crime is often prosecuted federally under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), Statute (18 U.S.C. Part I Chapter 96 §§ 1961-1968).
		Judicial and police officers and legislators are especially targeted for control by organized crime via bribes, threats, or a combination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Organized_crime (857 words)

	Organized Crime
		Organized crime may be defined as systematically unlawful activity for profit on a city-wide, interstate, and even international scale.
		Crime kingpins of the 1930s knew from experience in the previous decade that solid political connections were an advantage, and inter-gang fighting held severe drawbacks.
		The structure of recent organized crime evidently resembles that of multinational corporations; indications are that it has diversified and even cultivated a multinational commodities market.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1596.html (1281 words)

	NationMaster - Italian Crime statistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The experience of those States which have confronted organized crime and the intelligence derived from the study and analysis of its structures and criminal activities should be examined by every State for useful guiding principles concerning what substantive, procedural and regulatory legislation and organizational structures are necessary to prevent and combat the phenomenon.
		Since organized crime followed many patterns, operated at the national, regional and international levels and was engaged in many different activities that changed according to the opportunities available, a clear common definition of organized crime had so far proved difficult to agree on.
		The conference is being organized by the International Institute for Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences and the Center of Organized Crime in collaboration with the UN’s office for Combating Drugs and Crime, the Councils of the Arab Justice and Interior Ministers and the Arab League.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/it-italy/cri-crime (2079 words)

	Organized Crime - i2: Investigative Analysis Software
		Organized criminal activity includes drug trafficking, human trafficking, stolen merchandise, counterfeiting, money laundering and extortion.
		To further complicate matters, organized criminals do not confine themselves to state or national boundaries, meaning investigative teams need the ability to cooperate and share intelligence with others in the law enforcement community.
		i2 software assists analysts and investigators assigned to organized crime cases by providing tools that capture and organize multi-source data, quickly discover the hidden connections in the data and communicate the results.
	www.i2inc.com /Solutions/OrganizedCrime/default.asp (133 words)

	American Hegemony - A Timeline
		CIA organizes a right-wing coup of the Brazilian republic.
		Gen. José Alberto Medrano, who is on the payroll of the CIA, organizes the ORDEN and ANSESAL paramilitary forces, the precursors to El Salvador's proliferation of death squads.
		Humanitarian aide organizations were pressured by the US into providing assistance to Khmer Rouge guerillas using refugee camps as bases of operation while the rest of the country was placed under a blockade in the midst of a mass famine.
	www.flagrancy.net /timeline.html (12731 words)

	organized crime — Infoplease.com
		Competition and confusion in the discourse on organized crime in Russia.
		Organized Crime and Corruption in Ukraine: Impediments to the Development of a Free Market Economy.
		The persistence of organized crime in New York City construction: an economic perspective.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0836845.html (321 words)

	Children of the Camps \| INTERNMENT TIMELINE
		Largely organized by Quaker leader Clarence E. Pickett, the National Japanese-American Student Relocation Council is formed in Philadelphia with University of Washington Dean Robert W. O'Brien as director.
		The arrest of the popular Harry Ueno for the crime triggers a mass uprising.
		Forty-three Japanese American soldiers are arrested for refusing to participate in combat training at Fort McClellan, Alabama, as a protest of treatment of their families in U.S. camps.
	www.pbs.org /childofcamp/history/timeline.html (2155 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Many organized crime operations have substantial legitimate businesses, such as licensed gambling, building construction, trash hauling, or dockloading enterprises, which operate in parallel with and provide cover for drug trafficking, money laundering, prostitution, extortion, hijacking, fraud, and insider trading, among many other possible criminal activities.
		There are at times little distinction between "legitimate" organizations and organized crime.
		Even legitimate businesses may be "fronts" for organized crime, or a means of money laundering.
	encyc.connectonline.com.cob-web.org:8888 /index.php/Organized_crime (839 words)

	Timeline
		Sarah Peck (see 1854, Peck) organizes a private school in a home on the northwest corner of Elm Street and Sheridan Road.
		The survivors that reach land in Winnetka are treated in houses along the shore that are turned into makeshift hospitals.
		The Winnetka Town Meeting is organized by Reverend Quincy Dowd with assistance from Henry Demarest Lloyd, a village resident and renowned socialist and reformer.
	www.winnetkahistory.org /timeline.htm (2268 words)

	www.wintersoldier.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The PCPJ is a broad coalition of local and national organizations, including the Communist Party, USA, "committed to conducting demonstrations aimed at ending the war in Indochina, and poverty, racism and injustice at home." The VVAW, CCI and PCPJ all have headquarters at 156 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
		The organization leadership decides to picket against the National Guard Association in New York, send Hubbard on a "speaking tour" with Jane Fonda, consider an "appropriate induction center action for purpose of making clear transition from citizen to war criminal," and "sponsor turn in of war crimes testimony to UN" after the Winter Soldier event.
		Kerry seems to admit to committing war crimes, saying, "There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones.
	ice.he.net /~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=Timeline (3871 words)

	Opera Directory
		Timeline and photographs concerning the famous gangster from the early 1900s.
		Collection of articles on organized crime and the Mafia in the USA, focused on gangsters in New York and Chicago before and during the Prohibition.
		If there was a golden age of organized crime, it could said that it all began with Lansky.
	portal.opera.com /directory/?cat=124160 (645 words)

	Needcoffee.com DVD Review: The World History of Organized Crime (2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When someone uses the phrase "organized crime," images of men in pinstripe suits and tommy guns leap readily to mind.
		In reality, most American organized crime started out as a branch of other organized crime gangs in other parts of the world.
		In these documentaries, the origin of organized crime in each country is uncovered in minute detail.
	www.needcoffee.com /html/dvd/whoocrime.htm (341 words)

	English Bible History: Timeline of how we got the English Bible
		Foxe’s Book of Martyrs records that in that same year, 1517, seven people were burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church for the crime of teaching their children to say the Lord’s Prayer in English rather than Latin.
		Mary went on to burn reformers at the stake by the hundreds for the "crime" of being a Protestant.
		One famous example of this is John Bunyan, who while in prison for the crime of preaching the Gospel, wrote one of Christian history’s greatest books, Pilgrim’s Progress.
	www.greatsite.com /timeline-english-bible-history (5638 words)

	CNN.com - Organized crime threat to East Timor - September 2, 2002
		DILI, East Timor -- The fledgling nation of East Timor risks being exploited by organized crime and developing institutionalized corruption, because of its poverty and rudimentary legal system.
		The head of the Australian Federal Police, Mick Kelty, said Sunday East Timor could be vulnerable to drug traffickers, money launderers and those engaged in the sexual exploitation of children.
		Kelty, who on Sunday opened a permanent office of the AFP in the capital, Dili, said only one month ago East Timor had its first contact with people smuggling with the unlawful arrival of a boatload of Sri Lankan nationals.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/09/02/timor.crime (434 words)

	Mafia Chronology - Section III (1920-31)
		The organization quickly expands into Boston, Cleveland and Florida, providing a steady stream of quality liquor, a minimum of violence and a maximum of profits.
		Public is outraged at the number of underworld characters (including Terranova, who, according to some accounts, hosted the event) at the dinner and at Vitale's connections to organized crime.
		Eventually, the press decides to accept a ludicrous explanation from the police that the holdup was staged by Terranova in order to rob one of his guests of incriminating evidence relating to the Uale murder.
	www.onewal.com /maf-chr3.html (3705 words)

	Herstory of Domestic Violence: A Timeline of the Battered Women's Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Since by law, a husband is held liable for crimes committed by his wife, this law was designed to protect the husband from harm caused by the wife's actions.
		In England, the law is changed to allow a wife who had been habitually beaten by her husband to the point of "endangering her life" to separate from him, but cannot divorce him.
		The organization is built on a collective, rather than a hierarchical model - all the way to the Board of Directors which includes staff and ex-shelter residents.
	www.mincava.umn.edu /documents/herstory/herstory.html (10656 words)

	Crime Wave in Brazil City Enters 3rd Day, Organized Crime Wave Throughout Sao Paulo Enters Its 3rd Day, Leaves at Least ...
		Organized crime wave throughout Sao Paulo enters its 3rd day, leaves at least 6 people dead
		At least six people have been killed in nearly 100 attacks on police and civilian targets since Tuesday night in what authorities believe is retaliation for a possible transfer of gang leaders to Brazil's first federal penitentiary.
		The new wave comes at a critical time for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva _ who was officially launching his re-election campaign Thursday _ as well as his top challenger Geraldo Alckmin, who was governor of Sao Paulo state before announcing his bid for the October election.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/07/14/ap/world/mainD8IRH5A0J.shtml (772 words)

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		Of course, Harper's repeated use of the "organized crime" label is bound to conjure up images of the Mafia et al, and, as such, it may be seen as a low blow.
		Organized crime mobs are targeting Parliament and other Canadian institutions in an attempt to spread corruption and political instability, says the new head of the RCMP.
		The commissioner is a 30-year veteran of the RCMP who was previously the force's deputy commissioner in charge of the fight against organized crime.
	westernstandard.blogs.com /shotgun/2005/11/adscam_was_orga.html (5000 words)

	Flag Timeline
		Adoption of State Flag Desecration Statutes — By the late 1800's an organized flag protection movement was born in reaction to perceived commercial and political misuse of the flag.
		Although not a flag burning case, this represented the first time the Court had clearly stated that protest involving the physical use of the flag should be seen as a form of protected expression under the First Amendment.
		Johnson (491 U.S. 397) — The Supreme Court upheld the Texas Court of Criminal appeals finding that Texas law — making it a crime to "desecrate" or otherwise "mistreat" the flag in a way the "actor knows will seriously offend one or more persons" — was unconstitutional as applied.
	www.ushistory.org /betsy/flagfact.html (1580 words)

	Organized crime in Chicago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		March 15, 1910 - The Chicago Vice Commission, a civic organization to close the brothels and panel houses of the Levee district, is organized.
		As George Moran is about to kill the wounded Torrio the gun misfires and is forced to flee as the police arrive on the scene.
		However, Accardo remains a presence in the organization serving in an advisory capacity as consigliere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Organized_crime_in_Chicago (1817 words)

	BOTW Directory - Society > Crime > Organized Crime
		International Association for the Study of Organized Crime - Professional group of criminologists, researchers, teachers and students promoting the understanding of organized crimes.
		Mobwatcher - Presents the book of Antonio Nicaso, an award-winning journalist who is into organized crime reporting.
		Organized Crime Research - Defining the concept and theories of organized crimes in the social science perspective.
	botw.org /top/Society/Crime/Organized_Crime (264 words)

	Timeline
		The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded by Betty Friedan (1921–) and 27 associates who are frustrated by the failure of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce the Civil Rights Act.
		The goal of the Caucus is to support women interested in running for political office, to advocate for more women candidates within the major political parties, and to organize women at the local, state, and national levels to become more politically active.
		The campaign is not able to recover from the media blitz, in which Ferraro is accused of such debaucheries as tax fraud and involvement with organized crime.
	women.edgewood.edu /timeline_of_events.htm (4270 words)

	Organized Crime - Timeline by Catherine Bracieux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This is a working file representing a timeline of the troubled period encompassed by "Crime in the City and on the Screen," proposed by Catherine Bracieux.
		Exposes high degree of corruption and organized crime at all levels + alarming relationship between crime and politics.
		Lead to "witness movies" (The Enforcer) - forced E.J. Hoover to admit organized crime existed - inspired Johnson Act : main restriction on gambling devices - Senate established a Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation until 1963.
	www.ardecol.ac-grenoble.fr /english/agreg/timeline.htm (1160 words)

	CNN.com - Report examines FBI's focus on terrorism - Oct 4, 2004
		Inspector General Glenn Fine said the study was intended to document the impact of the FBI's re-prioritization, and encourages the FBI to begin to undertake similar internal studies to understand the impact of the decision.
		The FBI overhaul, which enabled an intense campaign to locate potential terrorists, required a reduction in traditional efforts aimed at organized crime, drug trafficking, tracking of fugitives, and bank robbery investigations.
		And the third is to protect against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/10/04/fbi.priorities/index.html (566 words)

	directopedia : Directory : Society : Crime : Organized Crime
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		The mayor of Las Vegas is proposing a museum exploring the history of organized crime's involvement in the building of the city.
	www.directopedia.org /directory/Society-Crime/Organized_Crime.shtml (2014 words)

	BUBL LINK: Crime
		Directory of international criminal justice resources, covering criminal violence, guns, crime prevention and victims organisations, militias, cults, organized crime, white-collar and computer crimes, copyright issues, satanic crime, juvenile delinquency, and juvenile justice.
		Details the types of crime which have increased and declined between 1997 and 1998, provides information about the characteristics of victims, and examines trends in victimisation rates from 1993 to 1998.
		Offers a bibliographic database of organised crime and corruption related titles, together with abstracts for each entry, which address topics such as criminal activities, youth gangs, prostitution, and organised crime enforcement.
	bubl.ac.uk /link/c/crime.htm (1830 words)

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