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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Types of Retail Crime
Caveat Emptor
Legal Crime
Pilfering
2. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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3. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Chiseling
Overutilization
Raj Rajaratnam
Pyramid Schemes
4. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Price gouging and manipulation
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Insider trading
Steering
5. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Pyramid Schemes
Types of Retail Crime
Power elite ...
Monopoly
6. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Transnational corporations
Kevin Mitnick
Different types of hackers
Corporate Tax Evasion
7. 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
Medical Crime
Corporate fraud
Strategic bankruptcy
8. 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
Ford Pinto
Predatory pricing
Corporate stealing from employees
Different types of hackers
9. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Medical Crime
Robber barons
Caveat Emptor
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
10. 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
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Role of the corporation in modern society
Types of Retail Crime
Kevin Mitnick
11. Food - transport - medical
Predatory pricing
Ping-ponging
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Ponzi Schemes (no product
12. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Legal Crime
Medical Crime
Corporate fraud
Economic exploitation of employees
13. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Enron's Main People
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Family ganging
14. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Legal Crime
Strategic bankruptcy
Hacking
Why commit Sabotage
15. 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
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Inventory Shrinkage
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Insider trading
16. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
The Dalkon Shield
Property of uncertain ownership
Types of Employee Crime
Fraud
17. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Corporate transgressions
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Legal Crime
18. 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
Economic exploitation of employees
Why commit Sabotage
Monopoly
Robber barons
19. 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
Predatory pricing
Corporate stealing from employees
Corporate crime
Inventory Shrinkage
20. 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
Predatory pricing
Strategic bankruptcy
Religious Crime
Occupational Deviance
21. 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
Property of uncertain ownership
Types of Employee Crime
Price gouging and manipulation
22. 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
Corporate crime
Love Canal
Raj Rajaratnam
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
23. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Parallel pricing
Ping-ponging
Inventory Shrinkage
Types of Retail Crime
24. 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
Corporate transgressions
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Kevin Mitnick
Inventory Shrinkage
25. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Hacking
Who commits insider trading
Parallel pricing
Embezzlement
26. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
S&L Crisis
Parallel pricing
Role of the corporation in modern society
Pilfering
27. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Overutilization
Enron's Main People
Financial Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
28. 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)
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Social Engineering
Pilfering
Technocrime Five types
29. 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
Occupational Deviance
Power elite ...
Enron's Main People
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
30. 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
Pilfering
Defense Contract Fraud
S&L Crisis
Ford Pinto
31. 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
Raj Rajaratnam
Power elite ...
Types of Retail Crime
Technocrime Five types
32. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Legal Crime
Raj Rajaratnam
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Ping-ponging
33. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Raj Rajaratnam
Defense Contract Fraud
Different types of hackers
Health Care Fraud
34. 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
Religious Crime
Corporate stealing from employees
Corporate fraud
35. 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
Ponzi Schemes (no product
S&L Crisis
Power elite ...
Pyramid Schemes
36. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Parallel pricing
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
S&L Crisis
37. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Inventory Shrinkage
Occupational Deviance
Family ganging
38. 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
Caveat Emptor
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Pyramid Schemes
Parallel pricing
39. 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
Love Canal
Manville case
Occupational Deviance
Paper entrepreneurs
40. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Insider trading
Embezzlement
Why commit Sabotage
Academic Crime
41. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Insider trading
Different types of hackers
The Dalkon Shield
42. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Caveat Emptor
Legal Crime
Conflict of Interest
Transnational corporations
43. 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]
Legal Crime
Caveat Emptor
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Power elite ...
44. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Types of Employee Crime
Pilfering
Corporate fraud
Strategic bankruptcy
45. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Corporate Tax Evasion
Corporate crime
Company Property
Financial Crime
46. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Company Property
Property of uncertain ownership
Technocrime Five types
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
47. 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
Inventory Shrinkage
Conflict of Interest
Religious Crime
Parallel pricing
48. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Ping-ponging
Different types of hackers
Strategic bankruptcy
Academic Crime
49. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Robber barons
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Ping-ponging
Legal Crime
50. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Role of the corporation in modern society
Different types of hackers
Property of uncertain ownership
Types of Employee Crime