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White Collar Crime
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1. Food - transport - medical
Types of Retail Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Family ganging
2. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.
Personal Property
Property of uncertain ownership
Raj Rajaratnam
Health Care Fraud
3. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Caveat Emptor
Predatory pricing
Personal Property
Financial Crime
4. 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
Predatory pricing
Legal Crime
Occupational Deviance
5. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Overutilization
Monopoly
Pyramid Schemes
Predatory pricing
6. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Role of the corporation in modern society
Pilfering
Paper entrepreneurs
Ponzi Schemes (no product
7. 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.
Religious Crime
Caveat Emptor
Kevin Mitnick
The Dalkon Shield
8. 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
Monopoly
Corporate fraud
Technocrime Five types
9. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Health Care Fraud
Price gouging and manipulation
Monopoly
10. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Types of Retail Crime
Economic exploitation of employees
Embezzlement
Kevin Mitnick
11. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Paper entrepreneurs
Corporate fraud
Insider trading
Academic Crime
12. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Power elite ...
Ping-ponging
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Parallel pricing
13. 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
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Kevin Mitnick
Embezzlement
14. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Family ganging
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Paper entrepreneurs
Chiseling
15. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Love Canal
Inventory Shrinkage
Occupational Deviance
Academic Crime
16. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Corporate transgressions
Defense Contract Fraud
Company Property
Kevin Mitnick
17. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Why commit Sabotage
Personal Property
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Corporate crime
18. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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19. 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
Parallel pricing
S&L Crisis
Robber barons
Raj Rajaratnam
20. 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
Fraud
Conflict of Interest
Pyramid Schemes
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
21. 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
Robber barons
Ford Pinto
Technocrime Five types
22. 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
Conflict of Interest
Predatory pricing
Finance crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
23. 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
Role of the corporation in modern society
Monopoly
Price gouging and manipulation
Why commit Sabotage
24. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Corporate crime
Social Engineering
Role of the corporation in modern society
Monopoly
25. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Corporate crime
Different types of hackers
Why commit Sabotage
Pyramid Schemes
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
Defense Contract Fraud
Ford Pinto
Monopoly
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
27. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Parallel pricing
Technocrime Five types
Corporate fraud
Corporate Tax Evasion
28. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Fraud
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Corporate Tax Evasion
Overutilization
29. 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
Finance crime
The Dalkon Shield
Overutilization
Manville case
30. 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
Types of Retail Crime
Role of the corporation in modern society
Corporate crime
31. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Power elite ...
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
32. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Personal Property
Company Property
Robber barons
Legal Crime
33. 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
Types of Retail Crime
Transnational corporations
Chiseling
34. 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
Predatory pricing
Parallel pricing
Power elite ...
Kevin Mitnick
35. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Caveat Emptor
Power elite ...
Chiseling
Hacking
36. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Different types of hackers
Finance crime
Legal Crime
Steering
37. 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
S&L Crisis
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Parallel pricing
Medical Crime
38. 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
Ford Pinto
Fraud
Hacking
Occupational Deviance
39. 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
The Dalkon Shield
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Corporate Tax Evasion
Paper entrepreneurs
40. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Personal Property
Corporate stealing from employees
Caveat Emptor
Strategic bankruptcy
41. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
Pyramid Schemes
Inventory Shrinkage
Finance crime
Why commit Sabotage
42. 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
S&L Crisis
Economic exploitation of employees
Types of Employee Crime
Corporate crime
43. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Overutilization
Robber barons
Defense Contract Fraud
Technocrime Five types
44. 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
Parallel pricing
Monopoly
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Ping-ponging
45. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Medical Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Power elite ...
Strategic bankruptcy
46. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Social Engineering
Ping-ponging
Corporate Tax Evasion
Hacking
47. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Finance crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Paper entrepreneurs
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
48. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Property of uncertain ownership
Parallel pricing
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Economic exploitation of employees
49. 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
Predatory pricing
Family ganging
Corporate transgressions
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
50. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Kevin Mitnick
Caveat Emptor
Manville case
Social Engineering