SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
White Collar Crime
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
law
,
business-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Parallel pricing
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Defense Contract Fraud
2. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
The Dalkon Shield
Personal Property
Types of Retail Crime
Raj Rajaratnam
3. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Parallel pricing
Different types of hackers
Corporate Tax Evasion
Love Canal
4. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Inventory Shrinkage
Hacking
Academic Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
5. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Robber barons
Economic exploitation of employees
Embezzlement
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
6. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Hacking
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Overutilization
Embezzlement
7. 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
Ford Pinto
Robber barons
Strategic bankruptcy
Occupational Deviance
8. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Corporate stealing from employees
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Why commit Sabotage
9. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Types of Retail Crime
Company Property
Health Care Fraud
Fraud
10. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Ping-ponging
Types of Employee Crime
Monopoly
The Dalkon Shield
11. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Pilfering
The Dalkon Shield
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Embezzlement
12. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Corporate crime
Paper entrepreneurs
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Manville case
13. 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]
Embezzlement
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Insider trading
Types of Retail Crime
14. 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
Defense Contract Fraud
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Conflict of Interest
Property of uncertain ownership
15. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Predatory pricing
Chiseling
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Power elite ...
16. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Paper entrepreneurs
Social Engineering
Finance crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
17. 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.
The Dalkon Shield
Company Property
Overutilization
Conflict of Interest
18. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Personal Property
Legal Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
19. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Fraud
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Caveat Emptor
Embezzlement
20. 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
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Technocrime Five types
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Embezzlement
21. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Caveat Emptor
Family ganging
Types of Retail Crime
The Dalkon Shield
22. 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
S&L Crisis
Power elite ...
Medical Crime
Paper entrepreneurs
23. 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
Embezzlement
Predatory pricing
Role of the corporation in modern society
Health Care Fraud
24. 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
Technocrime Five types
Health Care Fraud
Types of Employee Crime
Economic exploitation of employees
25. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Medical Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
Steering
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
26. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Ping-ponging
Social Engineering
Religious Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
27. 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
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Social Engineering
Role of the corporation in modern society
28. 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 - [
Enron's Main People
Financial Crime
Who commits insider trading
Ponzi Schemes (no product
29. 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
Different types of hackers
Ford Pinto
Insider trading
Transnational corporations
30. 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
S&L Crisis
Role of the corporation in modern society
Family ganging
Raj Rajaratnam
31. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Caveat Emptor
Economic exploitation of employees
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Love Canal
32. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Personal Property
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Technocrime Five types
Strategic bankruptcy
33. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Parallel pricing
Corporate fraud
Corporate transgressions
Embezzlement
34. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Caveat Emptor
Academic Crime
Conflict of Interest
Defense Contract Fraud
35. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
The Dalkon Shield
Different types of hackers
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Corporate crime
36. 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
Insider trading
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Love Canal
Academic Crime
37. 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
Pyramid Schemes
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Price gouging and manipulation
38. 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.]
Academic Crime
Who commits insider trading
Technocrime Five types
Finance crime
39. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Fraud
The Dalkon Shield
Types of Employee Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
40. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Occupational Deviance
Love Canal
Steering
Predatory pricing
41. 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
Academic Crime
Inventory Shrinkage
Types of Retail Crime
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
42. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Love Canal
Caveat Emptor
Financial Crime
43. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Finance crime
Kevin Mitnick
Corporate stealing from employees
Paper entrepreneurs
44. 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
Property of uncertain ownership
Role of the corporation in modern society
Predatory pricing
45. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Corporate Tax Evasion
Conflict of Interest
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Finance crime
46. 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
Why commit Sabotage
Company Property
Enron's Main People
Hacking
47. 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)
Insider trading
Occupational Deviance
Technocrime Five types
Fraud
48. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Transnational corporations
Academic Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
Overutilization
49. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Property of uncertain ownership
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Parallel pricing
Love Canal
50. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Personal Property
Overutilization
Transnational corporations