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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. Adding or removing a substance






2. Crimes that benefit oneself - Crimes against their employee






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






4. Jurisdictions over false advertising






5. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






6. Monitors and regulates security transactions






7. Crimes Committed by legitimate businesses






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






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






10. Federal agency that protects the environment






11. Adding or removing a substance






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






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






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






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






16. Crimes Committed by legitimate businesses






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






18. Federal agency that protects the environment






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






20. Illegally exploits security for malicious purposes






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






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






23. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






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






25. Illegally exploits security for malicious purposes






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






27. Big companies may benifit from regulatory laws but little companies don't make enough money to meet regulatory laws






28. Largest ponzi scheme in history






29. Legally exploits security to test systems






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






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






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






33. Deceiving consumers with inaccurate claims






34. Jurisdictions over false advertising






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






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






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






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






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






40. One person represents himself as another to monetary gain






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






42. Crimes that benefit oneself - Crimes against their employee






43. Something about the organizational context induces otherwise good people to commit crimes or unethical acts






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






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






46. Big companies may benifit from regulatory laws but little companies don't make enough money to meet regulatory laws






47. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






48. 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






49. Monitors and regulates security transactions






50. Time between check issuance and presentation