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White Collar Crime
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1. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Legal Crime
Health Care Fraud
Different types of hackers
Robber barons
2. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Property of uncertain ownership
Steering
S&L Crisis
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
Economic exploitation of employees
Finance crime
Manville case
Health Care Fraud
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
Finance crime
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Financial Crime
Paper entrepreneurs
5. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Conflict of Interest
Pyramid Schemes
Types of Employee Crime
Health Care Fraud
6. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Why commit Sabotage
S&L Crisis
Pilfering
Fraud
7. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Inventory Shrinkage
Power elite ...
Overutilization
Caveat Emptor
8. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Embezzlement
Defense Contract Fraud
Why commit Sabotage
Price gouging and manipulation
9. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Defense Contract Fraud
Fraud
Robber barons
Different types of hackers
10. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Pilfering
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Academic Crime
S&L Crisis
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
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
The Dalkon Shield
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 - [
Who commits insider trading
Chiseling
Caveat Emptor
Monopoly
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
Fraud
S&L Crisis
Parallel pricing
Role of the corporation in modern society
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
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Academic Crime
Corporate stealing from employees
Corporate transgressions
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
Social Engineering
Pilfering
Ford Pinto
Paper entrepreneurs
16. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Caveat Emptor
Chiseling
Embezzlement
Steering
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
Finance crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Embezzlement
Company Property
18. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Types of Employee Crime
Caveat Emptor
Corporate fraud
Property of uncertain ownership
19. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Inventory Shrinkage
Corporate fraud
Different types of hackers
Kevin Mitnick
20. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Corporate stealing from employees
Power elite ...
Overutilization
Social Engineering
21. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Family ganging
Price gouging and manipulation
Robber barons
Financial Crime
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
Types of Retail Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
Power elite ...
Enron's Main People
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.
Pyramid Schemes
Personal Property
Corporate transgressions
The Dalkon Shield
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
Who commits insider trading
Health Care Fraud
Pyramid Schemes
Role of the corporation in modern society
25. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Power elite ...
Ponzi Schemes (no product
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
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
Strategic bankruptcy
Finance crime
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Ponzi Schemes (no product
27. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Strategic bankruptcy
Role of the corporation in modern society
Hacking
Ping-ponging
28. Food - transport - medical
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Power elite ...
Types of Employee Crime
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
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
Medical Crime
Corporate transgressions
Economic exploitation of employees
Monopoly
30. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Hacking
Financial Crime
Predatory pricing
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
Types of Retail Crime
Love Canal
Predatory pricing
Religious Crime
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
Technocrime Five types
Corporate crime
Why commit Sabotage
Price gouging and manipulation
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
Defense Contract Fraud
Ping-ponging
Price gouging and manipulation
Strategic bankruptcy
34. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Love Canal
Corporate Tax Evasion
Kevin Mitnick
Economic exploitation of employees
35. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Steering
Personal Property
Strategic bankruptcy
Social Engineering
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
The Dalkon Shield
Role of the corporation in modern society
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Economic exploitation of employees
37. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Monopoly
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Types of Employee Crime
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
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]
Defense Contract Fraud
Price gouging and manipulation
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Company Property
39. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Ping-ponging
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Why commit Sabotage
Company Property
40. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Manville case
Personal Property
Embezzlement
Health Care Fraud
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
Raj Rajaratnam
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Corporate transgressions
Technocrime Five types
42. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Types of Retail Crime
Defense Contract Fraud
Monopoly
Enron's Main People
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
Pyramid Schemes
Company Property
Raj Rajaratnam
Parallel pricing
44. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Medical Crime
Raj Rajaratnam
Legal Crime
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)
Inventory Shrinkage
Occupational Deviance
Defense Contract Fraud
Technocrime Five types
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
Why commit Sabotage
Robber barons
Company Property
Overutilization
47. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Different types of hackers
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Price gouging and manipulation
Who commits insider trading
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.]
Different types of hackers
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Parallel pricing
Finance crime
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
Hacking
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Embezzlement
Insider trading
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
Property of uncertain ownership
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
The Dalkon Shield
Conflict of Interest
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