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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.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. Excessive trade transaction to raise commission






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






3. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






4. Federal agency that protects the environment






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






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






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






8. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






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






10. Excessive trade transaction to raise commission






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






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






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






14. Time between check issuance and presentation






15. Deceiving consumers with inaccurate claims






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






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






18. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






19. Monitors and regulates security transactions






20. Legally exploits security to test systems






21. Jurisdictions over false advertising






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






23. Illegally exploits security for malicious purposes






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






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






26. Time between check issuance and presentation






27. Monitors and regulates security transactions






28. 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






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






30. Deceiving consumers with inaccurate claims






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. Legally exploits security to test systems






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






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






42. Adding or removing a substance






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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