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