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White Collar Crime
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1. 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
Insider trading
Types of Retail Crime
Health Care Fraud
Price gouging and manipulation
2. 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
Monopoly
Finance crime
Ford Pinto
3. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Manville case
Raj Rajaratnam
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
4. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Corporate transgressions
Property of uncertain ownership
Role of the corporation in modern society
5. 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.]
Finance crime
Kevin Mitnick
Corporate transgressions
Technocrime Five types
6. 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]
Property of uncertain ownership
S&L Crisis
Occupational Deviance
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
7. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Family ganging
Role of the corporation in modern society
Pilfering
Property of uncertain ownership
8. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Enron's Main People
Ping-ponging
9. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Parallel pricing
Paper entrepreneurs
Defense Contract Fraud
Family ganging
10. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Raj Rajaratnam
Ford Pinto
Corporate fraud
Ponzi Schemes (no product
11. 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
Price gouging and manipulation
S&L Crisis
Why commit Sabotage
Kevin Mitnick
12. 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)
Overutilization
Predatory pricing
Love Canal
Technocrime Five types
13. 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
Predatory pricing
Love Canal
Conflict of Interest
Role of the corporation in modern society
14. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Family ganging
Types of Employee Crime
Caveat Emptor
Steering
15. 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
Embezzlement
Chiseling
Legal Crime
Parallel pricing
16. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Fraud
Personal Property
Strategic bankruptcy
Financial Crime
17. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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18. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Types of Retail Crime
Steering
Insider trading
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
19. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Health Care Fraud
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Pyramid Schemes
Manville case
20. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Overutilization
Embezzlement
Corporate crime
Transnational corporations
21. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Defense Contract Fraud
22. 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
Corporate crime
Love Canal
Corporate transgressions
Manville case
23. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Different types of hackers
Who commits insider trading
Legal Crime
Medical Crime
24. 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.
Technocrime Five types
Personal Property
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
The Dalkon Shield
25. 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
Who commits insider trading
Power elite ...
Price gouging and manipulation
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
26. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Caveat Emptor
Corporate crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
27. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Parallel pricing
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Kevin Mitnick
Strategic bankruptcy
28. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Insider trading
Different types of hackers
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Manville case
29. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Defense Contract Fraud
Corporate stealing from employees
Embezzlement
Overutilization
30. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Property of uncertain ownership
Academic Crime
Power elite ...
Love Canal
31. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Strategic bankruptcy
Power elite ...
Technocrime Five types
Corporate crime
32. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Corporate transgressions
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Hacking
Occupational Deviance
33. 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 stealing from employees
Corporate transgressions
Pyramid Schemes
Inventory Shrinkage
34. 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
Manville case
Overutilization
Different types of hackers
Conflict of Interest
35. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Defense Contract Fraud
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Caveat Emptor
Types of Employee Crime
36. 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
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Types of Retail Crime
Academic Crime
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
37. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Types of Employee Crime
Legal Crime
Chiseling
Manville case
38. 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
Occupational Deviance
Medical Crime
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Legal Crime
39. 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
Steering
Medical Crime
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Role of the corporation in modern society
40. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Social Engineering
Pyramid Schemes
Love Canal
Parallel pricing
41. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Power elite ...
Academic Crime
Embezzlement
S&L Crisis
42. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Different types of hackers
Religious Crime
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Finance crime
43. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Property of uncertain ownership
Caveat Emptor
Personal Property
Fraud
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
Property of uncertain ownership
Religious Crime
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Pyramid Schemes
45. 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
Conflict of Interest
Predatory pricing
Types of Retail Crime
Caveat Emptor
46. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Corporate fraud
Inventory Shrinkage
Technocrime Five types
Kevin Mitnick
47. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Pilfering
Defense Contract Fraud
Parallel pricing
Company Property
48. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Company Property
Power elite ...
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate fraud
49. 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
Finance crime
Pilfering
Robber barons
Fraud
50. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Ping-ponging
Property of uncertain ownership
Kevin Mitnick
Corporate stealing from employees