POLI 219 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nootropic, Financial Crimes, Mortgage Fraud

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Political Sc
• Course: POLI 219
• Professor: Marcel Danis

Document Summary

In order to address the question of whether or not society should fight organized crime, let us first analyze the societal impacts of organized crime, the globalization of organized crime and the types of criminal activities. Once these aspects of organized crime have been looked into there can then be a more holistically conclusive response to this question. Some of the crimes that seriously affect the economy of a society are the drug trade, prostitution, illegal businesses, counterfeiting . In terms of danger to human life, organized crime poses a very great threat. Orga(cid:374)ized cri(cid:373)e (cid:862)e(cid:454)tra(cid:272)ts the highest hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) toll, either i(cid:374)te(cid:374)tio(cid:374)all(cid:455) or u(cid:374)intentionally (danis, module (cid:1005), slide (cid:1011)(cid:895). (cid:863) drugs ha(cid:448)e a se(cid:448)ere i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t o(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) health a(cid:374)d a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to the costs of. Substance abuse in canada 2002 study drugs allocated for 1 695 deaths in canada (danis, module 1, slide 7).