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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. 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
Raj Rajaratnam
Robber barons
Overutilization
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
2. Was perhaps the single most famous example of a corporation that ruthlessly undercut virtually all competitors]
Types of Retail Crime
Defense Contract Fraud
Social Engineering
Standard Oil Corporation - presided over by John D. Rockefeller
3. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute
Overutilization
Corporate crime
Price gouging and manipulation
Hacking
4. A type of Employee Crime: the destruction or fraudulent appropriation of another's money which has been entrusted to one's care
Embezzlement
Conflict of Interest
Company Property
Power elite ...
5. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers
Academic Crime
Hacking
S&L Crisis
Property of uncertain ownership
6. 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
Technocrime Five types
Chiseling
Love Canal
Pyramid Schemes
7. Send you to a different place when they could have diagnosed it themselves
Ping-ponging
Property of uncertain ownership
Company Property
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
8. 'offenses committed by either corporate officials or the corporation itself - which benefit their corporation'
Pilfering
Insider trading
Paper entrepreneurs
Corporate crime
9. 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
Holtfreter - Van Slyke and Blomberg - 2006
Kevin Mitnick
Paper entrepreneurs
Fraud
10. Hospitals have defraud the government of billions of dollars annually through Medicaid and Medicare. [upcoding - service never performed - kickbacks - and self-referrals]
Manville case
Occupational Deviance
Health Care Fraud
Paper entrepreneurs
11. Activities deviating from norms of employers - professional associations - or coworkers within an occupational setting - such as malingering or sexual harassment
Overutilization
Corporate fraud
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
Occupational Deviance
12. Its when a corporation commits criminal offences that are non-violence but have vast political and economic consequences. Sutherland
Pyramid Schemes
Corporate fraud
Technocrime Five types
Role of the corporation in modern society
13. Refers to lawyers engaging in criminal conduct in the course of discharging their professional duties
Legal Crime
Finance crime
Raj Rajaratnam
Manville case
14. 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
Manville case
Corporate transgressions
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Predatory pricing
15. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials
Who commits insider trading
Corporate fraud
Academic Crime
Types of Retail Crime
16. 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
Ponzi scheme largest in history to date
Financial Crime
Different types of hackers
17. 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
Steering
Predatory pricing
Transnational corporations
Insider trading
18. 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)
Chiseling
Love Canal
Embezzlement
Technocrime Five types
19. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling
Corporate crime
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
Chiseling
Legal Crime
20. 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.]
Defense Contract Fraud
Caveat Emptor
Finance crime
Pyramid Schemes
21. 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
Power elite ...
Caveat Emptor
Transnational corporations
Insider trading
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
Raj Rajaratnam
Conflict of Interest
Types of Retail Crime
Predatory pricing
23. 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
S&L Crisis
Manville case
Hacking
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
24. 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
Legal Crime
Monopoly
Love Canal
Why commit Sabotage
25. 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
Legal Crime
Financial Crime
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Insider trading
26. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products
Role of the corporation in modern society
Transnational corporations
Steering
Medical Crime
27. Food - transport - medical
How Corporate violence differs from conventional interpersonal violence
Conflict of Interest
Corporate Tax Evasion
Various forms of corporate violence that are directed at the public
28. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators
Ponzi Schemes (no product
Legal Crime
Types of Employee Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
29. 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
Hacking
Role of the corporation in modern society
Predatory pricing
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
30. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as petty theft
Who commits insider trading
S&L Crisis
Pilfering
Insider trading
31. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement
Ping-ponging
Manville case
Insider trading
Types of Employee Crime
32. White hats are good. Black hats are bad
Parallel pricing
Paper entrepreneurs
Price gouging and manipulation
Different types of hackers
33. Your whole family should come in for something that's not that serious]
Pilfering
Family ganging
Predatory pricing
Who commits insider trading
34. 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
Property of uncertain ownership
Robber barons
Why commit Sabotage
Family ganging
35. Refers to monogrammed clothing - wallets - jewelry - personally modified tools
Monopoly
Personal Property
Difference between a Ponzi Schemes and a Pyramid Scheme
Role of the corporation in modern society
36. 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 - [
Pilfering
Who commits insider trading
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Robber barons
37. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft
Predatory pricing
Health Care Fraud
Fraud
Types of Retail Crime
38. 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
Corporate crime
Caveat Emptor
Price gouging and manipulation
Parallel pricing
39. Major corporations cost US taxpayers huge amounts by evading their fair share of the tax burden
Kevin Mitnick
Corporate Tax Evasion
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Caveat Emptor
40. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]
S&L Crisis
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Inventory Shrinkage
Robber barons
41. Kenneth Lay - Jeffery Skilling - Andy Fastile - Luis Barget
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42. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]
Corporate Tax Evasion
Defense Contract Fraud
Different types of hackers
Company Property
43. 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
Parallel pricing
Types of Employee Crime
Corporate stealing from employees
Manville case
44. 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
Who commits insider trading
Manville case
Embezzlement
Economic exploitation of employees
45. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.
Pilfering
What Martha Stewart was jailed for
Family ganging
Types of Employee Crime
46. Refers to illegal activity that occurs in the world of finance and financial institutions
Financial Crime
Different types of hackers
Medical Crime
Property of uncertain ownership
47. 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
Price gouging and manipulation
Historical development of the corporation and corporate crime
Why commit Sabotage
Legal Crime
48. Stock price dropped dramatically after drug was not approved by the FDA.
Strategic bankruptcy
Defense Contract Fraud
Corporate Tax Evasion
ImClone Case? Individual involved?
49. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers
Corporate stealing from employees
Property of uncertain ownership
Technocrime Five types
Caveat Emptor
50. Bankruptcy method used to avoid meeting certain burdensome finical obligations - including obligations to creditors
S&L Crisis
Who commits insider trading
Strategic bankruptcy
Insider trading