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White Collar Crime Vocab

Subjects : law, business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Something about the organizational context induces otherwise good people to commit crimes or unethical acts






2. Crimes that benefit oneself - Crimes against their employee






3. Largest ponzi scheme in history






4. Individuals choose to commit crimes as a result of some calculus - Bounded rationality






5. Deceiving consumers with inaccurate claims






6. Bonds- debt paid back with interest Stocks - shares of company






7. Certainty - severity - and celerity - How likely it is to be punished - How harsh that punishment will be - How quickly the punishment will be applied






8. A legislation designed to prevent business firms from gaining monopoly in their fields






9. Time between check issuance and presentation






10. Illegally exploits security in good will or jut for fun (for the lulz)






11. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






12. Created 3 new crimes - Unauthorized access with intent to defraud - Malicious damages via unauthorized access - Trafficking in passwords with intent to defraud






13. Monitors and regulates security transactions






14. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






15. As new clients are made - their money is used to pay original investors






16. United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)






17. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






18. Trading securities based on information that is not public knowledge






19. Famously - Sutherland claimed that WC criminals do not suffer from psychological disorders






20. Individuals have criminal tendencies that they import to the organizational context to commit both occupational and organizational crimes






21. United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)






22. Illegally exploits security for malicious purposes






23. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






24. Taking cash from a register - over charging customers or under ringing sales






25. Easiest way to make a fast buck - Greed is good - Fear of falling






26. Trading securities based on information that is not public knowledge






27. Monitors and regulates security transactions






28. Famously - Sutherland claimed that WC criminals do not suffer from psychological disorders






29. Commitment to one's job should constrain crime - Hollinger and Clark (1983) found deviant workplace behavior increased when employees intended to leave their current job






30. One person represents himself as another to monetary gain






31. Low or absent affect - Lack of empathy - Inability to form attachment - Able to appear outwardly normal






32. (economics) a market in which there are many buyers but only one seller






33. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






34. Excessive trade transaction to raise commission






35. Low or absent affect - Lack of empathy - Inability to form attachment - Able to appear outwardly normal






36. Easiest way to make a fast buck - Greed is good - Fear of falling






37. Jurisdictions over false advertising






38. Writing worthless checks and using finical institutions to conceal their true value






39. Paper where Ford admitted safety problems in a design but rationalized it was cheaper to pay a law suit






40. Excessive trade transaction to raise commission






41. Arab Scam or Abdul Scam - an FBI sting operation in which agents posed as rich oil sheiks and bribed members of Congress






42. Crimes committed by company






43. Illegal activity using phone - Television - cable - or rodeo lines






44. As new clients are made - their money is used to pay original investors






45. Individuals have criminal tendencies that they import to the organizational context to commit both occupational and organizational crimes






46. Crimes Committed by legitimate businesses






47. A legislation designed to prevent business firms from gaining monopoly in their fields






48. Crimes that benefit oneself - Crimes against their employee






49. Said the free market - not the legal system is the best way to deal with business which harm people... govern themselves






50. Paper where Ford admitted safety problems in a design but rationalized it was cheaper to pay a law suit