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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Chiseling
Parallel pricing
Transnational corporations
Inventory Shrinkage
2. 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
Steering
Overutilization
Chiseling
3. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Academic Crime
Love Canal
Kevin Mitnick
Paper entrepreneurs
4. 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
Insider trading
Conflict of Interest
The Dalkon Shield
Price gouging and manipulation
5. 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
Different types of hackers
Pilfering
Power elite ...
6. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Financial Crime
Ford Pinto
Defense Contract Fraud
Caveat Emptor
7. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Manville case
Fraud
Steering
Personal Property
8. 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
Parallel pricing
Property of uncertain ownership
Finance crime
Corporate stealing from employees
9. 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.]
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Love Canal
Defense Contract Fraud
Finance crime
10. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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11. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Power elite ...
Economic exploitation of employees
Types of Employee Crime
Robber barons
12. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Occupational Deviance
Monopoly
Technocrime Five types
Ford Pinto
13. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Corporate transgressions
Raj Rajaratnam
Inventory Shrinkage
Monopoly
14. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Ford Pinto
Conflict of Interest
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate fraud
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
Transnational corporations
Medical Crime
S&L Crisis
Finance crime
16. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Inventory Shrinkage
Robber barons
Academic Crime
Embezzlement
17. 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
Power elite ...
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Who commits insider trading
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
18. 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)
Enron's Main People
Ping-ponging
Monopoly
Technocrime Five types
19. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Corporate crime
Who commits insider trading
20. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Health Care Fraud
Embezzlement
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Social Engineering
21. Food - transport - medical
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Types of Employee Crime
The Dalkon Shield
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
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
Robber barons
Inventory Shrinkage
Personal Property
Pyramid Schemes
23. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Who commits insider trading
Property of uncertain ownership
Why commit Sabotage
Legal Crime
24. 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 - [
Paper entrepreneurs
Corporate transgressions
Who commits insider trading
Corporate stealing from employees
25. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Financial Crime
Different types of hackers
Economic exploitation of employees
The Dalkon Shield
26. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Family ganging
Social Engineering
Embezzlement
Price gouging and manipulation
27. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Occupational Deviance
Economic exploitation of employees
Different types of hackers
28. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Ping-ponging
Property of uncertain ownership
Chiseling
Monopoly
29. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Love Canal
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Occupational Deviance
Economic exploitation of employees
30. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Corporate fraud
Transnational corporations
31. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Overutilization
Property of uncertain ownership
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
32. 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
Social Engineering
S&L Crisis
Predatory pricing
Raj Rajaratnam
33. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Enron's Main People
Chiseling
Company Property
Raj Rajaratnam
34. 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
Academic Crime
Defense Contract Fraud
Health Care Fraud
Corporate transgressions
35. 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
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Paper entrepreneurs
Transnational corporations
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
36. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Corporate crime
Medical Crime
Pilfering
Hacking
37. 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
Legal Crime
Monopoly
Medical Crime
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
38. 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.
Medical Crime
Religious Crime
The Dalkon Shield
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
39. 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
Academic Crime
Predatory pricing
Legal Crime
Robber barons
40. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Social Engineering
Fraud
Academic Crime
Occupational Deviance
41. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Ford Pinto
Strategic bankruptcy
Parallel pricing
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
42. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
The Dalkon Shield
Kevin Mitnick
Property of uncertain ownership
43. 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
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Economic exploitation of employees
Types of Retail Crime
44. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Hacking
Ping-ponging
Pilfering
Company Property
45. 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
Defense Contract Fraud
Embezzlement
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Parallel pricing
46. 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
Occupational Deviance
Corporate fraud
Caveat Emptor
47. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Ford Pinto
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Overutilization
48. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
S&L Crisis
Legal Crime
Role of the corporation in modern society
49. 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
Price gouging and manipulation
Legal Crime
Raj Rajaratnam
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
50. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Company Property
Personal Property
Raj Rajaratnam