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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves






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






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






4. 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






5. 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






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






7. Food - transport - medical






8. 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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






13. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]






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






15. 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






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






17. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






18. 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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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

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






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






28. 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 - [






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. 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






31. 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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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]






38. An intrauterine birth control device in the 1960's in which it was discovered that bacteria was traveling up the wick of the device into the womb.






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






40. 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






41. 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.]






42. 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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






49. 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






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