- List sources of information on organized crime.
- Describe the various types of organized crime.
- Discuss the influence of criminal activities and ethnic, subcultural, and cultural values on the nature and structure of organized criminal groups.
- Evaluate several theories of the nature of syndicate crime in the United States.
- Identify some of the classic patterns of organized crime.
- Describe various tenets of organized crime as a criminal career.
- Describe some of the strategies, investigative procedures, and laws that have arisen as a reaction to organized crime.
- Assess how criminological theories apply to organized crime.
