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White Collar Crime

Subjects : law, business-skills
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1. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]






2. 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]






3. 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.






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






5. 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






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






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






8. 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






9. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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)






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






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






17. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






22. Food - transport - medical






23. 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






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






25. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement






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






27. White hats are good. Black hats are bad






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






29. 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






30. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools






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






32. 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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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






44. 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






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






46. 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






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






48. 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 - [






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






50. 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