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White Collar Crime
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1. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Conflict of Interest
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Types of Retail Crime
Hacking
2. 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
Pyramid Schemes
Economic exploitation of employees
Caveat Emptor
Predatory pricing
3. 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)
Personal Property
Economic exploitation of employees
Technocrime Five types
Enron's Main People
4. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Personal Property
Transnational corporations
Pilfering
Economic exploitation of employees
5. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Insider trading
Corporate stealing from employees
Kevin Mitnick
Corporate crime
6. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Personal Property
Overutilization
Financial Crime
Health Care Fraud
7. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Price gouging and manipulation
Pilfering
Types of Retail Crime
Caveat Emptor
8. 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
Medical Crime
Economic exploitation of employees
Power elite ...
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
9. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate crime
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Steering
10. 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
Embezzlement
Medical Crime
Paper entrepreneurs
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
11. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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12. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Transnational corporations
Fraud
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Steering
13. 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
Economic exploitation of employees
Hacking
Overutilization
Robber barons
14. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Academic Crime
Types of Retail Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
15. 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.
The Dalkon Shield
Raj Rajaratnam
Pilfering
Health Care Fraud
16. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
S&L Crisis
Legal Crime
Social Engineering
17. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Corporate fraud
Pilfering
Hacking
Love Canal
18. 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
Who commits insider trading
Raj Rajaratnam
Religious Crime
19. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Types of Employee Crime
Technocrime Five types
Chiseling
Family ganging
20. Food - transport - medical
Medical Crime
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
21. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Enron's Main People
S&L Crisis
Corporate crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
22. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Parallel pricing
The Dalkon Shield
Strategic bankruptcy
Ponzi Schemes (no product
23. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Types of Employee Crime
Corporate crime
Types of Retail Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
24. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Why commit Sabotage
Religious Crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Ping-ponging
25. 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
Enron's Main People
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Economic exploitation of employees
26. 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
Defense Contract Fraud
Religious Crime
Different types of hackers
Technocrime Five types
27. 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
Transnational corporations
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Role of the corporation in modern society
28. 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
Defense Contract Fraud
S&L Crisis
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
29. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Embezzlement
Conflict of Interest
Fraud
Predatory pricing
30. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Hacking
Economic exploitation of employees
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Types of Retail Crime
31. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Types of Employee Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Ford Pinto
32. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Medical Crime
Different types of hackers
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Ford Pinto
33. 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
Hacking
Corporate Tax Evasion
Raj Rajaratnam
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
34. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Monopoly
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Caveat Emptor
35. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Social Engineering
Paper entrepreneurs
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
Property of uncertain ownership
Power elite ...
Academic Crime
The Dalkon Shield
37. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Ford Pinto
Corporate crime
Overutilization
Legal Crime
38. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Social Engineering
Types of Employee Crime
Chiseling
39. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Insider trading
Enron's Main People
Economic exploitation of employees
Financial Crime
40. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Corporate transgressions
Steering
Paper entrepreneurs
Caveat Emptor
41. 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
The Dalkon Shield
Types of Employee Crime
Steering
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
Hacking
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Conflict of Interest
Different types of hackers
43. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Kevin Mitnick
Academic Crime
Insider trading
Hacking
44. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Defense Contract Fraud
Types of Retail Crime
Corporate fraud
Personal Property
45. 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
Conflict of Interest
Economic exploitation of employees
Legal Crime
Pyramid Schemes
46. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Love Canal
Health Care Fraud
Overutilization
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
47. 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.]
Enron's Main People
Corporate crime
Technocrime Five types
Finance crime
48. 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
Embezzlement
Why commit Sabotage
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Different types of hackers
49. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Finance crime
Property of uncertain ownership
Corporate Tax Evasion
Corporate fraud
50. 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]
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Types of Retail Crime
Predatory pricing
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date