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White Collar Crime
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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)
Social Engineering
Monopoly
Technocrime Five types
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
2. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Technocrime Five types
Robber barons
Defense Contract Fraud
Corporate crime
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
Transnational corporations
Strategic bankruptcy
Manville case
Overutilization
4. 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
Robber barons
Love Canal
Raj Rajaratnam
S&L Crisis
5. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Types of Retail Crime
Inventory Shrinkage
Medical Crime
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
6. 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
Steering
Price gouging and manipulation
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Robber barons
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.
Financial Crime
The Dalkon Shield
Defense Contract Fraud
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
8. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
Love Canal
Different types of hackers
Hacking
Monopoly
9. 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
Conflict of Interest
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Manville case
10. 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
Health Care Fraud
Transnational corporations
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Insider trading
11. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes
Financial Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
Fraud
Kevin Mitnick
12. 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
Corporate transgressions
Medical Crime
Corporate stealing from employees
Paper entrepreneurs
13. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Manville case
Conflict of Interest
Legal Crime
14. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Fraud
Kevin Mitnick
Love Canal
Occupational Deviance
15. 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
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Love Canal
Strategic bankruptcy
Role of the corporation in modern society
16. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Corporate Tax Evasion
Pilfering
Types of Retail Crime
Corporate crime
17. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Health Care Fraud
Why commit Sabotage
Personal Property
Religious Crime
18. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Price gouging and manipulation
Ping-ponging
Embezzlement
Corporate Tax Evasion
19. 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
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Types of Retail Crime
Paper entrepreneurs
Corporate transgressions
20. 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
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Types of Employee Crime
Price gouging and manipulation
Robber barons
21. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Corporate fraud
Occupational Deviance
Property of uncertain ownership
Academic Crime
22. 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
Corporate crime
Paper entrepreneurs
S&L Crisis
Medical Crime
23. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Occupational Deviance
Chiseling
Different types of hackers
Overutilization
24. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Steering
Who commits insider trading
Different types of hackers
Power elite ...
25. 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
Corporate Tax Evasion
Health Care Fraud
Steering
26. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Caveat Emptor
Social Engineering
Financial Crime
Enron's Main People
27. 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
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Economic exploitation of employees
Company Property
28. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Parallel pricing
Conflict of Interest
Corporate crime
29. 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.]
Health Care Fraud
Economic exploitation of employees
Finance crime
Conflict of Interest
30. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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31. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Embezzlement
Strategic bankruptcy
Paper entrepreneurs
Health Care Fraud
32. 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
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Raj Rajaratnam
Medical Crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
33. 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 - [
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Monopoly
Who commits insider trading
Legal Crime
34. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Predatory pricing
Defense Contract Fraud
Types of Retail Crime
Chiseling
35. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Occupational Deviance
Types of Employee Crime
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
36. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Economic exploitation of employees
Embezzlement
Hacking
Ford Pinto
37. Refers mainly to basic - bulky components and tools
Company Property
Why commit Sabotage
Social Engineering
Who commits insider trading
38. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Ping-ponging
Social Engineering
Technocrime Five types
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
39. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Legal Crime
Love Canal
Strategic bankruptcy
40. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Transnational corporations
Corporate Tax Evasion
Kevin Mitnick
Monopoly
41. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Manville case
Caveat Emptor
Overutilization
Power elite ...
42. 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
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Price gouging and manipulation
Predatory pricing
43. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Power elite ...
Occupational Deviance
Legal Crime
44. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Why commit Sabotage
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Predatory pricing
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
45. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Predatory pricing
Corporate Tax Evasion
Corporate fraud
46. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Transnational corporations
Kevin Mitnick
Fraud
Occupational Deviance
47. 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
Parallel pricing
Price gouging and manipulation
Corporate stealing from employees
Role of the corporation in modern society
48. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Family ganging
Types of Employee Crime
Financial Crime
49. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Pilfering
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Chiseling
Love Canal
50. 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
Pyramid Schemes
The Dalkon Shield
Power elite ...
Who commits insider trading