Instructions: For multiple-choice questions, circle the appropriate letter (e.g., "a", "b", "c", etc.). For true-false questions, circle "True" or "False."
An "organized criminal group" shall mean a structured group of ____________ or more persons, existing for a period of time and acting in concert with the aim of committing one or more serious crimes or offences established in accordance with" the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) All of the above
"Serious crime" shall mean conduct constituting an offence punishable by a maximum deprivation of liberty of at least _______.
a) One year
b) Two years
c) Three years
d) Four years
e) All of the above
According to the Organized Crime Convention, which of the following options is a criterion for a criminal activity to be recognized as "transnational organized crime"?
a) Crime committed in more than one State
b) Crime committed in one State but prepared in another State
c) Crime involves a criminal group active in different States
d) Crime committed in one State but has a substantial effect on another State
e) All of the above
According to the Organized Crime Convention, which of the following options is the motivation pursued by most organized criminal groups?
a) Social doctrine
b) Political beliefs
c) Ideological change
d) All of the above
e) None of the above
According to the Organized Crime Convention, genocide and crimes against humanity are forms of transnational organized crime.
True
False
According to the Module, organized criminal groups often subsist through the use of monopoly control in the local market. What does "monopoly control" mean in this context?
a) A form of collaboration between competing criminal groups
b) Economic advantage that an organized criminal group holds or aims to hold in a segment of an illicit market
c) Formation of a highly centralized and cohesive criminal structure
d) All of the above
The Organized Crime Convention emphasizes the importance of ethnicity as a factor behind the formation of organized criminal groups.
True
False
The Organized Crime Convention is important because __________.
a) It raises fundamental questions about the nature and outreach of organized crime
b) It provides a clear explanation about how technology makes organized criminal groups difficult for law enforcement agencies to locate and monitor
c) It is the main international legally binding instrument in the fight against transnational organized crime
d) It is not important because of national governments' unwillingness to work with each other.
The Organized Crime Convention includes three supplementary Protocols. The Protocols specifically cover the following crimes __________.
a) Trafficking in wildlife, firearms, and money laundering
b) Trafficking in persons, firearms, and drugs
c) Trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants, and trafficking in firearms
d) All of the above
How many Member States of the United Nations have signed and ratified the Organized Crime Convention?
a) 25%
b) 50%
c) 75%
d) More than 90%
[Answer key: 1. b; 2. d; 3. e; 4. e; 5. false; 6. b; 7. false; 8. c; 9.c; 10. d.]
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