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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
Pilfering
Ping-ponging
Paper entrepreneurs
Price gouging and manipulation
2. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Health Care Fraud
Company Property
Overutilization
3. 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
Power elite ...
Parallel pricing
Personal Property
4. 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
Economic exploitation of employees
Predatory pricing
Family ganging
Steering
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
Corporate Tax Evasion
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Role of the corporation in modern society
Conflict of Interest
6. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Transnational corporations
Raj Rajaratnam
Love Canal
Defense Contract Fraud
7. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Fraud
Ping-ponging
8. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Academic Crime
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Why commit Sabotage
Health Care Fraud
9. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Corporate fraud
Pilfering
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Hacking
10. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Robber barons
Corporate Tax Evasion
Role of the corporation in modern society
Family ganging
11. 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
Manville case
Company Property
Family ganging
Occupational Deviance
12. 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
Robber barons
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Corporate fraud
Corporate stealing from employees
13. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Overutilization
Power elite ...
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Financial Crime
14. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Personal Property
Price gouging and manipulation
Robber barons
Transnational corporations
15. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Role of the corporation in modern society
Ford Pinto
Academic Crime
Technocrime Five types
16. 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)
Transnational corporations
Occupational Deviance
Corporate Tax Evasion
Technocrime Five types
17. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Different types of hackers
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Insider trading
Parallel pricing
18. 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
Ping-ponging
Love Canal
Pilfering
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
19. 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
Power elite ...
Embezzlement
Economic exploitation of employees
Kevin Mitnick
20. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Role of the corporation in modern society
Corporate fraud
Types of Employee Crime
Social Engineering
21. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Why commit Sabotage
Steering
Medical Crime
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
22. 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
Religious Crime
Why commit Sabotage
Caveat Emptor
Corporate fraud
23. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Different types of hackers
Religious Crime
Kevin Mitnick
Types of Employee Crime
24. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Corporate Tax Evasion
Love Canal
Overutilization
Ford Pinto
25. 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
Medical Crime
Pyramid Schemes
Love Canal
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
26. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Ping-ponging
Corporate transgressions
Types of Retail Crime
Family ganging
27. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Defense Contract Fraud
Transnational corporations
Love Canal
Caveat Emptor
28. 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
Social Engineering
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Insider trading
29. 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
Pilfering
Parallel pricing
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Personal Property
30. Decreasing the number of high-wage union jobs - reducing wages of US workers - hiring illegal immigrants and the use of offshore plants for cheap workers
Insider trading
Conflict of Interest
Personal Property
Economic exploitation of employees
31. 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
Monopoly
Enron's Main People
Economic exploitation of employees
Conflict of Interest
32. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate crime
Predatory pricing
33. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Chiseling
Monopoly
Enron's Main People
Why commit Sabotage
34. 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.
Strategic bankruptcy
Ford Pinto
Legal Crime
The Dalkon Shield
35. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Caveat Emptor
Types of Employee Crime
Financial Crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
36. 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
Hacking
Inventory Shrinkage
Ford Pinto
Corporate stealing from employees
37. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Types of Employee Crime
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Kevin Mitnick
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
38. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Economic exploitation of employees
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Strategic bankruptcy
39. 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
Occupational Deviance
Defense Contract Fraud
S&L Crisis
Family ganging
40. 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
Personal Property
Insider trading
Medical Crime
Paper entrepreneurs
41. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Pyramid Schemes
Strategic bankruptcy
Parallel pricing
Social Engineering
42. 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
Corporate Tax Evasion
Finance crime
Ping-ponging
43. 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
Pyramid Schemes
Chiseling
Predatory pricing
Health Care Fraud
44. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Company Property
Religious Crime
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
45. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Kevin Mitnick
Monopoly
Power elite ...
Property of uncertain ownership
46. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Corporate crime
Insider trading
Defense Contract Fraud
Pyramid Schemes
47. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Occupational Deviance
Corporate crime
Property of uncertain ownership
Love Canal
48. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Raj Rajaratnam
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Financial Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
49. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Different types of hackers
Hacking
Inventory Shrinkage
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
50. 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
Monopoly
Overutilization
Corporate transgressions
Manville case
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