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