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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Technocrime Five types
Company Property
Corporate Tax Evasion
Types of Employee Crime
2. 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]
Medical Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Pyramid Schemes
Monopoly
3. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Property of uncertain ownership
Family ganging
Predatory pricing
4. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Love Canal
Health Care Fraud
Transnational corporations
Monopoly
5. 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
Raj Rajaratnam
Personal Property
Academic Crime
Legal Crime
6. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Overutilization
Steering
Financial Crime
Health Care Fraud
7. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Fraud
Robber barons
Hacking
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
8. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Price gouging and manipulation
Finance crime
Corporate crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
9. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Raj Rajaratnam
Fraud
Types of Employee Crime
Different types of hackers
10. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Inventory Shrinkage
Corporate stealing from employees
Economic exploitation of employees
11. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Social Engineering
Raj Rajaratnam
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Steering
12. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Pilfering
Health Care Fraud
Occupational Deviance
Company Property
13. 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
Corporate fraud
Embezzlement
Predatory pricing
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
14. 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
Corporate transgressions
Types of Retail Crime
Kevin Mitnick
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
15. 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
Raj Rajaratnam
Parallel pricing
Monopoly
Legal Crime
16. 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
Role of the corporation in modern society
Finance crime
Personal Property
S&L Crisis
17. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Health Care Fraud
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Overutilization
Pyramid Schemes
18. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Paper entrepreneurs
Power elite ...
Different types of hackers
Predatory pricing
19. 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
Ford Pinto
Raj Rajaratnam
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Family ganging
20. 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
Health Care Fraud
Steering
Robber barons
Corporate transgressions
21. 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
Caveat Emptor
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Price gouging and manipulation
Economic exploitation of employees
22. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Finance crime
Financial Crime
Medical Crime
Pyramid Schemes
23. 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
Occupational Deviance
Conflict of Interest
S&L Crisis
Embezzlement
24. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Overutilization
25. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Embezzlement
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
The Dalkon Shield
Academic Crime
26. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Personal Property
Transnational corporations
Caveat Emptor
Family ganging
27. 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 - [
Ford Pinto
Robber barons
Academic Crime
Who commits insider trading
28. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Health Care Fraud
Defense Contract Fraud
Price gouging and manipulation
The Dalkon Shield
29. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Ford Pinto
Caveat Emptor
Legal Crime
Who commits insider trading
30. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Fraud
Corporate fraud
Pilfering
Company Property
31. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Robber barons
Overutilization
Ponzi Schemes (no product
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
32. 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.
Medical Crime
The Dalkon Shield
Role of the corporation in modern society
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
33. 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.]
Personal Property
Academic Crime
Strategic bankruptcy
Finance crime
34. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
The Dalkon Shield
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Conflict of Interest
35. 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
Religious Crime
Overutilization
Embezzlement
Steering
36. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Overutilization
Personal Property
Insider trading
Technocrime Five types
37. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Legal Crime
Kevin Mitnick
Academic Crime
Corporate fraud
38. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Occupational Deviance
Technocrime Five types
Medical Crime
Raj Rajaratnam
39. 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
Embezzlement
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate stealing from employees
Predatory pricing
40. 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
Personal Property
Raj Rajaratnam
Pyramid Schemes
Role of the corporation in modern society
41. 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)
Economic exploitation of employees
Technocrime Five types
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Ford Pinto
42. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Strategic bankruptcy
Types of Employee Crime
Inventory Shrinkage
Overutilization
43. Food - transport - medical
Finance crime
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Manville case
Parallel pricing
44. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Corporate crime
Financial Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Academic Crime
45. 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
Monopoly
Manville case
Paper entrepreneurs
46. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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47. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Price gouging and manipulation
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
The Dalkon Shield
Transnational corporations
48. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Steering
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Robber barons
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
49. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Chiseling
Legal Crime
Medical Crime
Economic exploitation of employees
50. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Price gouging and manipulation
Ping-ponging
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Transnational corporations