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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties






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






3. 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






4. 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






5. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






6. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft






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






8. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care






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






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






11. 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






12. 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 - [






13. 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






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






28. Food - transport - medical






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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]






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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






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






45. 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)






46. 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






47. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






48. 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.]






49. 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






50. 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






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