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