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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. 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)






2. 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






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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 - [






12. 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






13. 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






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


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






16. Food - transport - medical






17. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






18. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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.]






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






34. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]






35. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties






36. 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.






37. 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






38. 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






39. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]






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






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






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






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