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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
Insider trading
Personal Property
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Company Property
2. 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
Love Canal
Health Care Fraud
Embezzlement
Property of uncertain ownership
3. 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
Role of the corporation in modern society
Steering
Price gouging and manipulation
Why commit Sabotage
4. 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
Who commits insider trading
Kevin Mitnick
Manville case
5. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Love Canal
Company Property
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
6. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Social Engineering
Hacking
Types of Employee Crime
Raj Rajaratnam
7. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Different types of hackers
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Personal Property
Social Engineering
8. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Monopoly
Steering
Medical Crime
Company Property
9. 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
The Dalkon Shield
Overutilization
Ford Pinto
Company Property
10. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Types of Retail Crime
Occupational Deviance
Corporate fraud
S&L Crisis
11. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Price gouging and manipulation
Property of uncertain ownership
Personal Property
Occupational Deviance
12. 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
Kevin Mitnick
Economic exploitation of employees
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate Tax Evasion
13. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Medical Crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Price gouging and manipulation
14. 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
Types of Employee Crime
Medical Crime
Different types of hackers
Steering
15. 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
Health Care Fraud
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Defense Contract Fraud
Insider trading
16. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Corporate crime
Occupational Deviance
Overutilization
Types of Employee Crime
17. 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
Power elite ...
Different types of hackers
Conflict of Interest
18. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Strategic bankruptcy
Defense Contract Fraud
Health Care Fraud
Inventory Shrinkage
19. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Corporate fraud
Overutilization
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Personal Property
20. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Price gouging and manipulation
Caveat Emptor
Pilfering
Fraud
21. 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
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Who commits insider trading
Hacking
22. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Kevin Mitnick
Personal Property
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
S&L Crisis
23. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Chiseling
Medical Crime
Pilfering
Robber barons
24. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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25. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Pilfering
Inventory Shrinkage
Parallel pricing
26. 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
Legal Crime
Different types of hackers
Predatory pricing
27. 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
Different types of hackers
Conflict of Interest
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Ponzi Schemes (no product
28. 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
Corporate crime
Chiseling
Family ganging
Religious Crime
29. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Corporate fraud
Personal Property
Economic exploitation of employees
Ping-ponging
30. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Parallel pricing
Embezzlement
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
31. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Parallel pricing
Chiseling
Pyramid Schemes
Family ganging
32. 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
Health Care Fraud
Corporate transgressions
Predatory pricing
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
33. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Overutilization
Monopoly
Social Engineering
Parallel pricing
34. 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
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Technocrime Five types
Power elite ...
35. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Who commits insider trading
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Academic Crime
Occupational Deviance
36. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Insider trading
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Personal Property
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
37. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Caveat Emptor
Types of Employee Crime
Chiseling
38. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Company Property
Fraud
Defense Contract Fraud
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
39. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Health Care Fraud
Legal Crime
Caveat Emptor
Hacking
40. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Inventory Shrinkage
Religious Crime
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
41. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Finance crime
Financial Crime
Types of Retail Crime
Price gouging and manipulation
42. 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
Why commit Sabotage
Social Engineering
Raj Rajaratnam
Academic Crime
43. 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
Who commits insider trading
Pyramid Schemes
Corporate stealing from employees
Why commit Sabotage
44. 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
Hacking
Corporate fraud
Economic exploitation of employees
Corporate stealing from employees
45. 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
Enron's Main People
Inventory Shrinkage
Technocrime Five types
Role of the corporation in modern society
46. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Property of uncertain ownership
S&L Crisis
Robber barons
Raj Rajaratnam
47. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Embezzlement
Financial Crime
Corporate fraud
Ping-ponging
48. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Property of uncertain ownership
Pilfering
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Raj Rajaratnam
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]
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate transgressions
Academic Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
50. 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
Family ganging
S&L Crisis
Inventory Shrinkage
Steering