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