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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. Crimes committed by company






2. Jurisdictions over false advertising






3. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






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






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






6. Using the mails to complete criminal activity






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






8. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






9. Federal agency that protects the environment






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






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






12. Monitors and regulates security transactions






13. Transactions involving $5000 or more in federal offenses






14. Crimes that benefit oneself - Crimes against their employee






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






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






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






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






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






20. Manipulating - destroying or removing labels






21. Deceptive activities that affect the welfare of securities






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






23. Crimes Committed by legitimate businesses






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






25. Deceiving consumers with inaccurate claims






26. One person represents himself as another to monetary gain






27. Legally exploits security to test systems






28. Excessive trade transaction to raise commission






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Monitors and regulates security transactions






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






38. Time between check issuance and presentation






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






40. 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






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






42. Adding or removing a substance






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






44. 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






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






46. Crimes Committed by legitimate businesses






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






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






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






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