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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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 - [






2. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions






3. 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






4. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves






5. 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.






6. 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






7. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'






8. 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






9. 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






10. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland






11. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.






12. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden






13. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers






14. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques






15. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials






16. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools






17. 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






18. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions






19. 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






20. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]






21. 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






22. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






23. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers






24. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling






25. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






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






27. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties






28. Food - transport - medical






29. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute






30. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation






31. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]






32. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]






33. 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






34. 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






35. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products






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






37. 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






38. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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)






44. 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






45. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






46. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]






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.]






48. 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]






49. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors






50. 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







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