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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Love Canal
Why commit Sabotage
Raj Rajaratnam
Occupational Deviance
2. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Academic Crime
Personal Property
Economic exploitation of employees
3. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Legal Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
Financial Crime
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
4. 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
Property of uncertain ownership
Religious Crime
Inventory Shrinkage
Types of Employee Crime
5. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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6. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Defense Contract Fraud
The Dalkon Shield
Types of Employee Crime
Economic exploitation of employees
7. Food - transport - medical
Strategic bankruptcy
Chiseling
Caveat Emptor
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
8. 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
Types of Employee Crime
Steering
Paper entrepreneurs
9. 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
Company Property
Strategic bankruptcy
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Paper entrepreneurs
10. 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 - [
Company Property
Inventory Shrinkage
Who commits insider trading
Finance crime
11. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Finance crime
Why commit Sabotage
Legal Crime
Types of Retail Crime
12. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Different types of hackers
S&L Crisis
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Technocrime Five types
13. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Parallel pricing
Strategic bankruptcy
Corporate stealing from employees
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
14. 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.]
Finance crime
Academic Crime
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Corporate crime
15. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Conflict of Interest
Family ganging
Health Care Fraud
Love Canal
16. 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
Kevin Mitnick
Raj Rajaratnam
Predatory pricing
Types of Employee Crime
17. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Pyramid Schemes
Transnational corporations
Steering
18. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Manville case
Parallel pricing
Social Engineering
19. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Insider trading
Hacking
Property of uncertain ownership
Robber barons
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
Corporate crime
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Corporate transgressions
Robber barons
21. 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
Why commit Sabotage
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Corporate crime
22. 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
Pyramid Schemes
Corporate stealing from employees
Occupational Deviance
Corporate fraud
23. 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
Hacking
Academic Crime
Why commit Sabotage
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
24. 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
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Academic Crime
Different types of hackers
Medical Crime
25. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Family ganging
Medical Crime
Corporate crime
26. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Economic exploitation of employees
Company Property
Strategic bankruptcy
Overutilization
27. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Corporate crime
Who commits insider trading
Ping-ponging
Pilfering
28. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Caveat Emptor
Chiseling
Why commit Sabotage
29. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Religious Crime
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Technocrime Five types
Types of Employee Crime
30. 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
Types of Retail Crime
Ping-ponging
Parallel pricing
Role of the corporation in modern society
31. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Embezzlement
Kevin Mitnick
Inventory Shrinkage
Price gouging and manipulation
32. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Parallel pricing
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Family ganging
The Dalkon Shield
33. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Role of the corporation in modern society
Fraud
Family ganging
Types of Employee 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]
Medical Crime
Why commit Sabotage
Types of Employee Crime
Inventory Shrinkage
35. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Overutilization
Conflict of Interest
Chiseling
36. 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
Conflict of Interest
Why commit Sabotage
Legal Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
37. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Caveat Emptor
Medical Crime
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Defense Contract Fraud
38. 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
The Dalkon Shield
Paper entrepreneurs
Economic exploitation of employees
Ford Pinto
39. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Overutilization
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Parallel pricing
Finance crime
40. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Defense Contract Fraud
Occupational Deviance
The Dalkon Shield
Finance crime
41. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Paper entrepreneurs
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Family ganging
Technocrime Five types
42. 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
Economic exploitation of employees
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Social Engineering
Inventory Shrinkage
43. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Pilfering
Enron's Main People
Predatory pricing
Ponzi Schemes (no product
44. 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
The Dalkon Shield
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Health Care Fraud
45. 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
Corporate crime
Medical Crime
Family ganging
46. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Embezzlement
Manville case
Who commits insider trading
Medical Crime
47. 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
Overutilization
Insider trading
Paper entrepreneurs
Power elite ...
48. 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
Family ganging
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate stealing from employees
Different types of hackers
49. 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
Medical Crime
Insider trading
Property of uncertain ownership
Role of the corporation in modern society
50. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Caveat Emptor
Medical Crime
Academic Crime
Financial Crime