DISCUSSION ESSAY

Each question should be answered in 2 pages (minimum of 500 words) with 2 minimum peer reviewed sources each. question is not included in word count.

Question 1: Provide an overview of a domestic or Transnational organized criminal organization other than the Mafia analyzing the type of criminal activity in which they are engaged and then judging its success.

Question 2: Assess what if any impact the growth of the Internet has had on organized crime during the past 2 decades

Question 3: Analyze why methamphetamine has proven to be a profitable drug for Mexican organized crime. Conclude your response by including (and justifying) a number of steps you believe Mexican and U.S. lawmakers must take if the production of this drug is to be curbed.

Question 4: Interpret how the onset of the Great Depression (i.e., in the U.S.) and the end of Prohibition affected organized crime?