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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials






2. 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






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






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






5. 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






6. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute






7. 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






8. Food - transport - medical






9. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]






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






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






12. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






16. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget

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17. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






18. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]






19. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland






20. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. 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]






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






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






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






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






29. 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)






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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






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






40. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden






41. 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






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






43. Corporations are increasingly controlled by paper entrepreneurs - or investors who are principally concerned with short-term profit. These investors are far less likely to be strongly committed to product development of to the local communities in wh






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






45. 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






46. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






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






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






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






50. 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







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