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