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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Chiseling
Economic exploitation of employees
Transnational corporations
Predatory pricing
2. 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
Manville case
Predatory pricing
Corporate stealing from employees
Enron's Main People
3. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Manville case
Conflict of Interest
Family ganging
Occupational Deviance
4. 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
Role of the corporation in modern society
Conflict of Interest
Different types of hackers
Medical Crime
5. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Role of the corporation in modern society
Embezzlement
Love Canal
Overutilization
6. 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
Overutilization
Fraud
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Corporate fraud
7. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Defense Contract Fraud
Religious Crime
Monopoly
8. 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
Academic Crime
Personal Property
Role of the corporation in modern society
Price gouging and manipulation
9. Food - transport - medical
Price gouging and manipulation
Love Canal
Transnational corporations
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
10. 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
Strategic bankruptcy
Who commits insider trading
Chiseling
11. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Power elite ...
Property of uncertain ownership
The Dalkon Shield
Corporate Tax Evasion
12. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Robber barons
Caveat Emptor
Love Canal
Legal Crime
13. 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 - [
Technocrime Five types
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Power elite ...
Who commits insider trading
14. 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
Technocrime Five types
Corporate crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Conflict of Interest
15. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Company Property
Corporate transgressions
Legal Crime
16. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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17. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Types of Employee Crime
Different types of hackers
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
18. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Finance crime
Ping-ponging
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Embezzlement
19. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Manville case
Corporate Tax Evasion
Parallel pricing
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
20. 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
Enron's Main People
Chiseling
Defense Contract Fraud
Ford Pinto
21. 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
Finance crime
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Chiseling
22. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Types of Retail Crime
Kevin Mitnick
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Why commit Sabotage
23. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Pyramid Schemes
Economic exploitation of employees
Legal Crime
Pilfering
24. 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
S&L Crisis
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Parallel pricing
Conflict of Interest
25. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Why commit Sabotage
Corporate crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
26. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Caveat Emptor
Chiseling
Fraud
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
27. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Ford Pinto
Academic Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
28. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Personal Property
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Monopoly
Role of the corporation in modern society
29. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Social Engineering
Transnational corporations
Religious Crime
Types of Retail Crime
30. 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
Manville case
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Power elite ...
31. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Who commits insider trading
Role of the corporation in modern society
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Steering
32. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Family ganging
Pyramid Schemes
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Corporate fraud
33. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Overutilization
Inventory Shrinkage
Company Property
34. 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
Corporate fraud
Raj Rajaratnam
The Dalkon Shield
Parallel pricing
35. 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
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Who commits insider trading
Monopoly
36. 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
Fraud
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Caveat Emptor
37. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Inventory Shrinkage
Monopoly
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Kevin Mitnick
38. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Corporate fraud
Fraud
Economic exploitation of employees
Inventory Shrinkage
39. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Transnational corporations
Embezzlement
Steering
Caveat Emptor
40. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Financial Crime
Monopoly
Ping-ponging
Paper entrepreneurs
41. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Transnational corporations
Corporate crime
Types of Employee Crime
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
42. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Role of the corporation in modern society
Manville case
Raj Rajaratnam
43. 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]
Role of the corporation in modern society
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Price gouging and manipulation
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
44. 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.]
Ping-ponging
Academic Crime
Religious Crime
Finance crime
45. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Strategic bankruptcy
Social Engineering
Different types of hackers
Kevin Mitnick
46. 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
Academic Crime
Hacking
Raj Rajaratnam
Company Property
47. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Academic Crime
Financial Crime
Ford Pinto
Who commits insider trading
48. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Strategic bankruptcy
Social Engineering
Steering
Transnational corporations
49. 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
Strategic bankruptcy
Economic exploitation of employees
S&L Crisis
Occupational Deviance
50. 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
Social Engineering
Health Care Fraud
Inventory Shrinkage
Robber barons