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Said to be the first criminal organization in North America and operated off the Atlantic coast |
Pirates |
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Raising of a pirate flag to signal intentions of taking over a merchant ship to steal good |
Jolly Roger |
Scares victims into submission |
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Pirates that were issued licenses by the sovereign or government of their country that empowered them to rob merchant ships belonging to enemy countries in times of war |
Privateers |
Letters of Marque |
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Crew members that were responsible for sailing captured enemy vessels back to port while the mother ship continued her search for more victims |
Prize masters |
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A form of commercial piracy that involves “fake” goods or currency. In Canada it began in the 1950s (1850s?) |
Counterfeiting |
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It is the most historically rooted, persistent, and widespread form of organize noncompliance perpetrated in Canada |
Smuggling |
Does not prey on people, but was consensual nature, Supplying good and services demanded by the public |
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These are legal goods that are smuggled due to inflated costs or high demand. In British North America, tea was the most popular form |
Contraband |
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This flourished during the later half of the 19th century as thousands of Chinese migrants Were illegally transported into Canada en route to the United States |
Migrant smuggling |
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Refers to the sex trade and forced conscription of women into the profession. The term was coined to arouse a moral indignation among the dominant white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant public. |
White slave trade |
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Refers to illegal gaming and became more predominant and organized beginning in the late 19th century in Canada |
Gambling |
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Was a growing source of revenue for underground entrepreneurs who took bets primarily on horse racing |
Bookmaking |
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Off-track betting operations or “bucket shop” that took bets on horse races from all over North America |
Horse-book |
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Was never a formal organization with any kind of national or international scope, but more of a system of local extortion rackets perpetrated against other Italian immigrants |
Black Hand |
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A failed experiment that irrevocably transformed the criminal underworld in North America. It refers to the passage of the 18th amendment to the American Constitution in 1920 |
Prohibition |
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Began in the 1950s, crime groups in the United States, Italy, Canada and France orchestrated the largest heron importation conspiracy the world that seem to this point |
French Connection |
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Southwestern Ontario ________ became Canada’s “king of the bootleggers” |
Rocco Perri |
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Who was the single largest supplier of booze to US during prohibition? |
Seagram Distillery Company CEO: Samuel Bronfman |
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