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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. Time between check issuance and presentation






2. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






3. Adding or removing a substance






4. Jurisdictions over false advertising






5. 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






6. Crimes that benefit oneself - Crimes against their employee






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






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






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






10. Largest ponzi scheme in history






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






12. 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






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






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






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






16. Crimes committed by company






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






18. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






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






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






21. Deceptive activities that affect the welfare of securities






22. Largest ponzi scheme in history






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






24. Excessive trade transaction to raise commission






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






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






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






28. Monitors and regulates security transactions






29. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






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






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






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






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






34. Time between check issuance and presentation






35. Deceptive activities that affect the welfare of securities






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






37. Crimes committed by company






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






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






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






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






42. Adding or removing a substance






43. Federal agency that protects the environment






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






45. Legally exploits security to test systems






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






47. Illegally exploits security for malicious purposes






48. Jurisdictions over false advertising






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






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