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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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)
Religious Crime
Types of Employee Crime
Fraud
Technocrime Five types
2. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Hacking
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Personal Property
Corporate Tax Evasion
3. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Overutilization
Finance crime
Occupational Deviance
4. 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
S&L Crisis
Corporate stealing from employees
Inventory Shrinkage
Types of Retail Crime
5. 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
Manville case
Corporate transgressions
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Occupational Deviance
6. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Hacking
Parallel pricing
Steering
Property of uncertain ownership
7. 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
Who commits insider trading
Religious Crime
Ping-ponging
Fraud
8. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Corporate fraud
Different types of hackers
Academic Crime
Fraud
9. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Academic Crime
Legal Crime
Predatory pricing
Monopoly
10. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Religious Crime
Role of the corporation in modern society
Strategic bankruptcy
Health Care Fraud
11. 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
Financial Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Medical Crime
12. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Enron's Main People
Monopoly
Occupational Deviance
Corporate transgressions
13. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Corporate stealing from employees
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Pilfering
Enron's Main People
14. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Property of uncertain ownership
Economic exploitation of employees
Social Engineering
Parallel pricing
15. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Fraud
Ford Pinto
S&L Crisis
Corporate fraud
16. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Personal Property
Corporate fraud
Occupational Deviance
Steering
17. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Pilfering
Corporate crime
S&L Crisis
Financial Crime
18. 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
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Role of the corporation in modern society
Corporate stealing from employees
Enron's Main People
19. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Ping-ponging
S&L Crisis
Finance crime
Raj Rajaratnam
20. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Embezzlement
Pyramid Schemes
Corporate crime
Types of Employee Crime
21. 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
Occupational Deviance
Insider trading
Different types of hackers
Academic Crime
22. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Occupational Deviance
The Dalkon Shield
Pilfering
23. 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
S&L Crisis
Family ganging
Health Care Fraud
24. 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
Pyramid Schemes
Corporate stealing from employees
Hacking
25. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Strategic bankruptcy
Company Property
Occupational Deviance
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
26. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Parallel pricing
Caveat Emptor
27. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Religious Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
Ford Pinto
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
28. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Academic Crime
Corporate transgressions
Paper entrepreneurs
Transnational corporations
29. 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 - [
Caveat Emptor
Who commits insider trading
Paper entrepreneurs
The Dalkon Shield
30. Food - transport - medical
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Power elite ...
Academic Crime
Ford Pinto
31. 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
Social Engineering
Transnational corporations
Robber barons
Overutilization
32. 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
Pyramid Schemes
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Corporate stealing from employees
Steering
33. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Kevin Mitnick
Defense Contract Fraud
Transnational corporations
Ford Pinto
34. 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]
Robber barons
Monopoly
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
35. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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36. 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.
Corporate transgressions
Hacking
Overutilization
The Dalkon Shield
37. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Strategic bankruptcy
Medical Crime
Embezzlement
Inventory Shrinkage
38. 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
S&L Crisis
Property of uncertain ownership
Love Canal
Defense Contract Fraud
39. 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
Chiseling
Corporate crime
Ping-ponging
Pyramid Schemes
40. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Types of Retail Crime
S&L Crisis
Why commit Sabotage
Overutilization
41. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Occupational Deviance
Corporate fraud
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
42. 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
Price gouging and manipulation
Fraud
Conflict of Interest
Family ganging
43. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Caveat Emptor
Overutilization
Academic Crime
Religious Crime
44. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Personal Property
Raj Rajaratnam
Different types of hackers
45. 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
Pilfering
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Paper entrepreneurs
Who commits insider trading
46. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Family ganging
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Embezzlement
47. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Inventory Shrinkage
Legal Crime
Economic exploitation of employees
Personal Property
48. 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
Love Canal
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Power elite ...
Manville case
49. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Insider trading
Defense Contract Fraud
Religious Crime
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
Strategic bankruptcy
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Raj Rajaratnam
Ford Pinto