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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
Embezzlement
Price gouging and manipulation
Love Canal
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
2. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Power elite ...
Role of the corporation in modern society
Who commits insider trading
Steering
3. 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 scheme largest in history to date
Conflict of Interest
Robber barons
Ponzi Schemes (no product
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
Insider trading
Religious Crime
S&L Crisis
Corporate fraud
5. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Power elite ...
Corporate Tax Evasion
Role of the corporation in modern society
Enron's Main People
6. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Chiseling
Insider trading
Corporate crime
7. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Types of Employee Crime
Monopoly
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Who commits insider trading
8. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Insider trading
Strategic bankruptcy
Why commit Sabotage
The Dalkon Shield
9. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Fraud
Transnational corporations
Religious Crime
Financial Crime
10. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Monopoly
Why commit Sabotage
Embezzlement
Corporate transgressions
11. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Hacking
Chiseling
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
12. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Religious Crime
Defense Contract Fraud
Types of Employee Crime
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
13. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Overutilization
Property of uncertain ownership
Paper entrepreneurs
Corporate fraud
14. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Types of Retail Crime
Corporate fraud
Paper entrepreneurs
Types of Employee Crime
15. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Transnational corporations
Ping-ponging
Strategic bankruptcy
Types of Employee Crime
16. 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
Company Property
Who commits insider trading
Legal Crime
17. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Why commit Sabotage
Raj Rajaratnam
Company Property
18. 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
Defense Contract Fraud
Raj Rajaratnam
Different types of hackers
Love Canal
19. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Transnational corporations
Occupational Deviance
Property of uncertain ownership
Overutilization
20. 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
Embezzlement
Family ganging
Ford Pinto
21. 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
Health Care Fraud
Embezzlement
Paper entrepreneurs
22. 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
Caveat Emptor
Corporate stealing from employees
Legal Crime
Insider trading
23. 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
Economic exploitation of employees
Transnational corporations
Kevin Mitnick
Predatory pricing
24. Food - transport - medical
Raj Rajaratnam
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Robber barons
Power elite ...
25. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Property of uncertain ownership
Fraud
26. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Insider trading
Inventory Shrinkage
Technocrime Five types
27. 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
Enron's Main People
Caveat Emptor
Embezzlement
Robber barons
28. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Kevin Mitnick
Robber barons
Raj Rajaratnam
Types of Employee Crime
29. 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 - [
Who commits insider trading
Chiseling
The Dalkon Shield
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
30. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Inventory Shrinkage
Financial Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
Ping-ponging
31. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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32. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Strategic bankruptcy
Pilfering
Power elite ...
Ponzi Schemes (no product
33. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Strategic bankruptcy
Price gouging and manipulation
Corporate Tax Evasion
Financial Crime
34. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Medical Crime
Transnational corporations
Defense Contract Fraud
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
35. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Property of uncertain ownership
Occupational Deviance
Price gouging and manipulation
Economic exploitation of employees
36. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Enron's Main People
Steering
Legal Crime
Religious Crime
37. 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
Hacking
Power elite ...
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Ping-ponging
38. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Enron's Main People
Kevin Mitnick
Parallel pricing
Types of Retail Crime
39. 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
Pilfering
Manville case
S&L Crisis
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
40. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Social Engineering
Transnational corporations
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Insider trading
41. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Caveat Emptor
Corporate fraud
Kevin Mitnick
Company Property
42. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Economic exploitation of employees
Corporate crime
Property of uncertain ownership
Caveat Emptor
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)
Technocrime Five types
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Health Care Fraud
Price gouging and manipulation
44. 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
Overutilization
Corporate fraud
Chiseling
45. 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
Robber barons
Ping-ponging
Health Care Fraud
46. 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
Company Property
Financial Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
Economic exploitation of employees
47. 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
Company Property
Ford Pinto
Ping-ponging
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
48. 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
Predatory pricing
Insider trading
Family ganging
Role of the corporation in modern society
49. 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
Parallel pricing
Chiseling
Pyramid Schemes
Religious Crime
50. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Academic Crime
Predatory pricing
Defense Contract Fraud
Strategic bankruptcy