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White Collar Crime
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1. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Legal Crime
Occupational Deviance
Kevin Mitnick
Family ganging
2. 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
Ping-ponging
Corporate stealing from employees
Ford Pinto
Technocrime Five types
3. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Religious Crime
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate Tax Evasion
Robber barons
4. 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
Kevin Mitnick
Monopoly
Medical Crime
Predatory pricing
5. 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
Monopoly
Financial Crime
Transnational corporations
6. 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
Hacking
Raj Rajaratnam
Paper entrepreneurs
7. 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
Love Canal
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Parallel pricing
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
8. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Chiseling
Corporate Tax Evasion
Corporate fraud
Types of Retail Crime
9. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Price gouging and manipulation
Corporate transgressions
Property of uncertain ownership
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
10. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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11. 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
S&L Crisis
Who commits insider trading
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Family ganging
12. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Corporate crime
Steering
Chiseling
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
13. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Health Care Fraud
Kevin Mitnick
Academic Crime
Strategic bankruptcy
14. 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)
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Inventory Shrinkage
Technocrime Five types
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
15. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Strategic bankruptcy
Hacking
Inventory Shrinkage
Power elite ...
16. 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
Monopoly
Corporate stealing from employees
Fraud
Insider trading
17. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Defense Contract Fraud
Medical Crime
Health Care Fraud
S&L Crisis
18. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Pyramid Schemes
Monopoly
Medical Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
19. 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
Why commit Sabotage
Defense Contract Fraud
Power elite ...
Overutilization
20. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Occupational Deviance
Corporate Tax Evasion
Legal Crime
21. Food - transport - medical
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Enron's Main People
Predatory pricing
22. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Inventory Shrinkage
Academic Crime
Different types of hackers
23. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Health Care Fraud
Financial Crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
24. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Robber barons
Predatory pricing
Hacking
Personal Property
25. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Transnational corporations
Inventory Shrinkage
Caveat Emptor
Robber barons
26. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Inventory Shrinkage
Raj Rajaratnam
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Financial Crime
27. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Corporate fraud
Corporate crime
S&L Crisis
28. 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
Price gouging and manipulation
Parallel pricing
Pilfering
Property of uncertain ownership
29. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Medical Crime
Hacking
Types of Retail Crime
Corporate fraud
30. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Hacking
Economic exploitation of employees
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Property of uncertain ownership
31. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Embezzlement
Company Property
Different types of hackers
Power elite ...
32. 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
Transnational corporations
Company Property
Power elite ...
Role of the corporation in modern society
33. 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
Types of Employee Crime
Predatory pricing
S&L Crisis
Legal Crime
34. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Predatory pricing
Family ganging
Occupational Deviance
Different types of hackers
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
Role of the corporation in modern society
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Paper entrepreneurs
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
36. 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
Types of Employee Crime
Financial Crime
Overutilization
37. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Enron's Main People
Kevin Mitnick
38. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Academic Crime
Caveat Emptor
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Family ganging
39. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Property of uncertain ownership
Types of Retail Crime
Health Care Fraud
Manville case
40. 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 - [
Power elite ...
Chiseling
Property of uncertain ownership
Who commits insider trading
41. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Overutilization
Religious Crime
Fraud
Ping-ponging
42. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Caveat Emptor
Paper entrepreneurs
Health Care Fraud
S&L Crisis
43. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Why commit Sabotage
Technocrime Five types
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
44. 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
Overutilization
Inventory Shrinkage
Kevin Mitnick
Love Canal
45. 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
Technocrime Five types
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Why commit Sabotage
Monopoly
46. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Power elite ...
Corporate crime
Strategic bankruptcy
Occupational Deviance
47. 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
Finance crime
Corporate transgressions
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Paper entrepreneurs
48. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Strategic bankruptcy
Ford Pinto
Pilfering
Predatory pricing
49. 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]
Types of Retail Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Personal Property
Corporate Tax Evasion
50. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Raj Rajaratnam
Religious Crime
S&L Crisis