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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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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






2. 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






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






4. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators






5. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget

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6. 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






7. 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






8. 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






9. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes






10. 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






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.






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






16. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft






17. 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 - [






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.






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






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






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






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






28. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product






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






30. 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






31. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






32. 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






33. 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






34. 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.]






35. 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






36. 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






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






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






39. Food - transport - medical






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment






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






45. 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






46. 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.






47. 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






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. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






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







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