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






2. One person represents himself as another to monetary gain






3. 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






4. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






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






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






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






8. Jurisdictions over false advertising






9. Legally exploits security to test systems






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






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






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






14. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






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






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






17. Crimes committed by company






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






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






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






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






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






23. Deceiving consumers with inaccurate claims






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






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






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






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






28. Monitors and regulates security transactions






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






30. Adding or removing a substance






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






32. Jurisdictions over false advertising






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






34. One person represents himself as another to monetary gain






35. Monitors and regulates security transactions






36. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






37. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






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






39. Largest ponzi scheme in history






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






41. Crimes Committed by legitimate businesses






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






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






44. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






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






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






47. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






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






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






50. Deceiving consumers with inaccurate claims