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Seminar 8
CJ350 Organized Crime
Scott Harris
Welcome!
Questions
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Questions on Unit #8
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Questions on anything we have covered
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Questions on anything
Drugs
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Scourge or recreation?
How many in class have someone they know
that has been affected by drugs?
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positive/negative
War on Drugs
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What was the first drug that started the war?
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When did the war start?
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Harrison Act 1914
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Methadone Clinics
Origination of Drugs
Not in the U.S. We are consumers
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Golden Triangle
Golden Crescent
Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan
 By 1998, the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban
movement, made up primarily of Pashtuns,
controlled most of the country, and Afghanistan
became one of the world’s largest producers of
heroin
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Why is this important?
Drug Types
Cocaine - do you know where it comes from?
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Coca plant (not to be confused with cocoachocolate)
Country
Marijuana
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Plant
Country
Are we Winning the War
In order to answer this question we must first
look at some other questions
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Is crime down?
Is drug use down?
What about anciliary costs such as health care?
Are the users any healthier?
Treatment costs down?
If we answer yes, maybe we are winning – if
no we definitely are not winning
Any Easy Answers
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Any suggestions??
What do we do?
More Laws?
 Longer sentences?
 Build more prisons?
 Throw more money at it?
 Legalization?
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Final Project
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For your Final Project, you will conduct an organized crime
investigation on a well-known organized crime
figure/organization.
In a three- to five-page paper, explain in detail, what strategies,
tools, and Federal Statutes you would use in your investigation
and subsequent prosecution in Federal Court.
Identify the law enforcement strategies, tools, and federal
statutes you used in your investigation/prosecution.
Apply your knowledge of law enforcement strategies, tools, and
federal statutes to the investigation and prosecution of organized
crime members.
Clearly explain the area you have chosen to investigate.
 Why you feel it is important
Questions
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Questions over the seminar
Questions over anything