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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. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Insider trading
Types of Retail Crime
Strategic bankruptcy
Fraud
2. 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
Academic Crime
Company Property
Personal Property
3. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Caveat Emptor
Social Engineering
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Finance crime
4. 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
Academic Crime
Corporate transgressions
Economic exploitation of employees
5. Is the act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information - rather than by breaking in or using technical cracking techniques
Price gouging and manipulation
Who commits insider trading
Steering
Social Engineering
6. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Chiseling
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Pyramid Schemes
Manville case
7. 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
Predatory pricing
Raj Rajaratnam
Occupational Deviance
Company Property
8. Food - transport - medical
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Hacking
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
9. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Religious Crime
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Health Care Fraud
10. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Predatory pricing
Conflict of Interest
Power elite ...
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
11. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Predatory pricing
Academic Crime
Corporate stealing from employees
12. 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.]
Social Engineering
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Inventory Shrinkage
Finance crime
13. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Inventory Shrinkage
Hacking
Power elite ...
Property of uncertain ownership
14. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Price gouging and manipulation
Personal Property
Family ganging
Finance crime
15. Cheating employees out of overtime pay (Wal-Mart) - Denying workers their pensions (Police Agency) - and Extortion (falsely accusing employees of theft to comp their pay
Corporate stealing from employees
Kevin Mitnick
Ford Pinto
Personal Property
16. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Property of uncertain ownership
Academic Crime
Types of Retail Crime
Ponzi Schemes (no product
17. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Different types of hackers
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Types of Retail Crime
Financial Crime
18. 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
Predatory pricing
Legal Crime
S&L Crisis
19. 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
Love Canal
Strategic bankruptcy
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Pyramid Schemes
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
Legal Crime
Chiseling
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Robber barons
21. 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
Corporate transgressions
Robber barons
Health Care Fraud
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
22. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Who commits insider trading
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Legal Crime
23. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Inventory Shrinkage
Corporate crime
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Who commits insider trading
24. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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25. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
Occupational Deviance
Conflict of Interest
Strategic bankruptcy
26. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Overutilization
Social Engineering
Financial Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
27. 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
Insider trading
Price gouging and manipulation
Financial Crime
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
28. 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
Conflict of Interest
Health Care Fraud
Raj Rajaratnam
Ping-ponging
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
Pyramid Schemes
Ford Pinto
Conflict of Interest
Ping-ponging
30. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Caveat Emptor
The Dalkon Shield
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Different types of hackers
31. 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
The Dalkon Shield
Power elite ...
Social Engineering
Caveat Emptor
32. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Manville case
Different types of hackers
Religious Crime
Corporate Tax Evasion
33. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Love Canal
Types of Employee Crime
Ping-ponging
The Dalkon Shield
34. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Monopoly
Embezzlement
Health Care Fraud
S&L Crisis
35. 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
Embezzlement
Pilfering
Raj Rajaratnam
Medical Crime
36. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Company Property
Types of Employee Crime
37. 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
Predatory pricing
Religious Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Personal Property
38. A Corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors in order to obtain control 95% of the market.
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
The Dalkon Shield
Monopoly
Corporate stealing from employees
39. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as theft through misrepresentation
Fraud
Insider trading
Different types of hackers
S&L Crisis
40. 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
Economic exploitation of employees
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Parallel pricing
Embezzlement
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
Paper entrepreneurs
Manville case
Inventory Shrinkage
42. 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
Paper entrepreneurs
Raj Rajaratnam
Ford Pinto
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
43. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Chiseling
Family ganging
Corporate fraud
Kevin Mitnick
44. Ponzi Schemes has (no a product) - While a Pyramid Scheme (has a product
Medical Crime
Different types of hackers
Kevin Mitnick
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
45. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Corporate stealing from employees
Pilfering
Personal Property
Finance crime
46. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Corporate Tax Evasion
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Company Property
Corporate crime
47. Directing patients to the clinic's pharmacy to fill unneeded prescriptions
Love Canal
Personal Property
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Steering
48. 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
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Occupational Deviance
49. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Personal Property
Defense Contract Fraud
Manville case
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
50. 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
Corporate stealing from employees
Defense Contract Fraud
Love Canal
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006