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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Food - transport - medical






2. 1. It is indirect in the sense that victims are not assaulted by another person 2. The effects of corporate violence are removed in time from the action that caused the harm 3. Involves a large number of individuals acting collectively - which causes






3. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes






4. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling






5. In the Anglo-American tradition - the earliest corporations were churches - towns - guilds and universities - 'town saloon'. Over time - these corporations were recognized as trusts with legal control over certain property. These trading corporations






6. Price gouging or systematic overcharging - have also been directed at various industries and corporations when they take advantage of especially vulnerable classes of consumers or circumstances such as shortages. Many states prohibit price gouging by






7. A situation in which the interests of a person whom serves in their professional role conflict with that person's own private interests as an individual






8. Galleon Hedge Fund Case was one of the largest hedge funds in the world managing over $7 Billion. - Believed to have obtained inside information from a number of companies - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. - Goldman Sachs Group - Intel Corporation - Raj






9. 1980s dubbed as the 'biggest bank robbery' ever - S&Ls offered unrealistically high interest rates to attract large sums of money - money invested was then lent to developers engaged in highly speculative (risky) projects; which bound to go broke unl






10. A producer of asbestos products which was later found linked to an ultimately fatal lung disease resulting from exposure to asbestos. Manville had internal medical reports of asbestosis among its workers; however - based on cost-benefit analysis - it






11. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft






12. The corporate empires of the robber barons (for example: Rockefeller - Carnegie - Vanderbilt - Gould - and Frick) of the second half of the 19th century were involved in every manner of bribery - fraud - stock manipulation - predation against competi






13. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment






14. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.






15. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions






16. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'






17. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers






18. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product






19. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.






20. Corporations used to annihilate their competitors by undercutting their price and by pressuring dealers - sales agents - unions - and other parties not to work with their competitors






21. To conceal their own errors [make it look like it was the manager's fault] - To gain time off - For more pay [brake a system so they can charge to fix it] - To express their contempt and anger with their work and employer






22. Internal computer crimes (sabotaging programs) - Telecommunications crimes (hacking) - Computer manipulation crimes (embezzlements and fraud) - Computers in support of criminal enterprises - Hardware / software thefts (corporate level mainly)






23. 1/3 of the us adult population has been victimized by some form of consumer fraud - Estimated costs over $100 billion annually - Major causes of this large degree of victimization - Advances in technology (faceless perceptions and victims) - Globaliz






24. Pyramid Scheme (has product) - A variant of a Ponzi Scheme - Involves recruiting other people into the business in other to sustain profit rather them a truly profitable enterprise [MonVie Acai Berry juice






25. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors






26. A case in which the Ford company placed the gas tank in the rear of the car to save money on engineering costs. When the car was involved in rear-end collisions the gas tank exploded - burning some people to death






27. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools






28. Decreasing the number of high-wage union jobs - reducing wages of US workers - hiring illegal immigrants and the use of offshore plants for cheap workers






29. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products






30. A situation in which the interests of a person whom serves in their professional role conflict with that person's own private interests as an individual






31. The Hooker Chemical Corporation bought the canal; drained it - and began dumping metal drums filled with highly toxic chemical wastes. Eventually the property was acquired by a local school board - and both a school and residential neighborhood were






32. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]






33. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques






34. Karl Marx recognized dark side to most corporations. Marx regarded corporations as a capitalist system that exploits and dehumanizes workers and deprives them of a fair return on their labor. The pursuit of profit is the principle rational for the co






35. Fixed prices or parallel pricing is when the leaders in the industry set inflated prices and supposed competitors adjust their own prices accordingly. Explicit price fixing was prohibited by the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 as a form of 'restraint t






36. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties






37. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.






38. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators






39. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






40. They are the top people in the corporate world - government - and military whom have 'interlocks' - or a complex network of ties - that enable them to advance their interrelated interests and move quite easily between high-level private- and public-s






41. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft






42. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation






43. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]






44. Cheating employees out of overtime pay (Wal-Mart) - Denying workers their pensions (Police Agency) - and Extortion (falsely accusing employees of theft to comp their pay






45. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions






46. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves






47. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.






48. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials






49. Corporate Officials - Directors and Mangers - Outsiders who are 'tipped' [CEO tips family members - 'it going to be a bad month'] - Bankers - accountants and lawyers who provide services with confidential information about securities being traded - [






50. White hats are good. Black hats are bad