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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Insider trading
Types of Employee Crime
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Different types of hackers
2. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Defense Contract Fraud
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Conflict of Interest
3. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Medical Crime
Types of Employee Crime
Occupational Deviance
Ping-ponging
4. 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 - [
Inventory Shrinkage
Paper entrepreneurs
Who commits insider trading
Academic Crime
5. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Parallel pricing
Technocrime Five types
Monopoly
S&L Crisis
6. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Finance crime
Hacking
Who commits insider trading
Steering
7. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Legal Crime
Finance crime
Ford Pinto
Fraud
8. 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
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
S&L Crisis
Corporate crime
Raj Rajaratnam
9. Food - transport - medical
Overutilization
Embezzlement
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
The Dalkon Shield
10. 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
Price gouging and manipulation
Types of Employee Crime
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Academic Crime
11. Crime that is defined as illegal or harmful conduct committed specifically in the context of their religious entity such as a religious leader may generate a bottomless donation basket for gullible believers to offer money which is used for corrupt p
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Family ganging
Religious Crime
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
12. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Manville case
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Family ganging
Pilfering
13. 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
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Pilfering
Medical Crime
Ford Pinto
14. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Kevin Mitnick
Corporate Tax Evasion
Monopoly
15. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Types of Employee Crime
Predatory pricing
Financial Crime
Raj Rajaratnam
16. The Madoff ponzi scheme was surely the largest in history to date [Started in the 1990s and defrauded thousands of investors of recorded $65 Billion]
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Types of Retail Crime
Price gouging and manipulation
Why commit Sabotage
17. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Price gouging and manipulation
Types of Retail Crime
Robber barons
Caveat Emptor
18. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Predatory pricing
Steering
Corporate fraud
Property of uncertain ownership
19. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Different types of hackers
Caveat Emptor
Occupational Deviance
Inventory Shrinkage
20. Large corporations taking advantage of political corruption - the absence or paucity of regulatory controls - and the desperation for economic enterprise characteristic of many developing nations
Health Care Fraud
Caveat Emptor
Corporate transgressions
Power elite ...
21. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions [Can be committed to benefit financial institutions - such as banks - or for the benefit of individuals - such as investment bankers.]
Finance crime
Academic Crime
Chiseling
Steering
22. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Property of uncertain ownership
Corporate crime
Health Care Fraud
Chiseling
23. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Overutilization
Robber barons
Steering
Predatory pricing
24. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Family ganging
Raj Rajaratnam
Legal Crime
25. 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
Kevin Mitnick
Corporate crime
Raj Rajaratnam
Ford Pinto
26. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Insider trading
Defense Contract Fraud
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Company Property
27. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Insider trading
S&L Crisis
Why commit Sabotage
Personal Property
28. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Different types of hackers
Conflict of Interest
Embezzlement
Chiseling
29. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Corporate crime
Parallel pricing
Overutilization
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
30. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Strategic bankruptcy
Different types of hackers
Price gouging and manipulation
31. 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
Medical Crime
Strategic bankruptcy
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Legal Crime
32. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Medical Crime
Monopoly
Parallel pricing
Transnational corporations
33. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Overutilization
Manville case
Who commits insider trading
Chiseling
34. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Economic exploitation of employees
Steering
Overutilization
Pyramid Schemes
35. 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
Finance crime
Role of the corporation in modern society
Raj Rajaratnam
Financial Crime
36. 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
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Conflict of Interest
Parallel pricing
Pilfering
37. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Monopoly
Company Property
Price gouging and manipulation
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
38. 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)
Medical Crime
S&L Crisis
Technocrime Five types
Personal Property
39. Refers to buying or selling a security - in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationships of trust and confidence - while in possession of nonpublic information about the security
Monopoly
Insider trading
Robber barons
Economic exploitation of employees
40. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Power elite ...
Corporate Tax Evasion
Medical Crime
Ping-ponging
41. 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
S&L Crisis
Power elite ...
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Health Care Fraud
42. 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
Fraud
Why commit Sabotage
Corporate transgressions
Medical Crime
43. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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44. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Social Engineering
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Paper entrepreneurs
Personal Property
45. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Corporate crime
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Who commits insider trading
Social Engineering
46. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Personal Property
Medical Crime
Caveat Emptor
Monopoly
47. 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
Medical Crime
Kevin Mitnick
Occupational Deviance
Corporate stealing from employees
48. 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
Overutilization
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Pyramid Schemes
Parallel pricing
49. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Embezzlement
Corporate transgressions
Defense Contract Fraud
Property of uncertain ownership
50. 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
Enron's Main People
Insider trading
Love Canal
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006