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13 Post author: NancyLebovitz 20 December 2013 05:04PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 23 December 2013 11:17:49PM 1 point [-]

Racketeering's also a traditional pursuit of organized crime, and one that's more obviously coercive. In the modern era there's also electronic theft and fraud to deal with -- botnets, trade in stolen identity information, that sort of thing.

I'd agree that drugs, prostitution, and gambling are at least equally prominent no matter what era we're looking at, though.