_____ is defined as convicted white-collar offenders who often do not pay penalties.
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White-collar “deadbeats”
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_____ is crime committed by those within legitimate occupations or organizations.
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White-collar crime
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Is whistleblowers those who inform on wrongdoing within their organization?
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True
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_____ is known as secret deal between labor negotiators and management to the disadvantage of the workers.
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Sweetheart contract
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_____ is defined as illegal game to swindle people out of their money.
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Scam
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_____ is prisoners who are constantly in and out of prison are described as being in a revolving door.
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Revolving door
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Is pyramid scheme a financial scam relying on the continual recruitment of investors in a nonexistent product (see also Ponzi scheme)?
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True
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_____ is known as c. Wright Mills’s theory that argues that a small group of corporate, military, and political elite run the United States.
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Power elite
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_____ is defined as a con game (named after Charles “Get Rich Quick” Ponzi) that involves paying early investors high investment returns with money from later investors in a nonexistent enterprise.
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Ponzi scheme
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_____ is crime committed during the course of a legitimate occupation for the benefit of the employee.
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Organizational crime
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Is occupational/organizational crime grid a model that looks at white-collar crimes in terms of whether the perpetrator and victim are individuals, employees, or groups?
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True
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_____ is known as crime committed during the course of a legitimate occupation for one’s own benefit.
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Occupational crime
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_____ is defined as a plea of no contest to charges.
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Nolo contendere
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_____ is a case in the 1970s of an employee of the Kerr-mcgee nuclear plant who died in an auto accident on her way to report on company wrongdoing.
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Karen silkwood case
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Is insider trading using prohibited, confidential information in order to trade for one’s advantage?
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True
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_____ is known as spying in the commercial sector.
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Industrial espionage
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_____ is defined as a term used by C. Wright Mills to describe the moral insensibility of the power elite.
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Higher immorality
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_____ is in the 1960s and early 1970s, firetrap engineering of gas tanks on Ford Pintos resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of victims.
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Ford pinto case
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Is equity funding scandal a corporate scam in which fake insurance policies (ghosts) were created in order to take advantage of reinsurers?
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True
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_____ is known as theft from an employer by an employee who has reached a level of trust.
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Embezzlement
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_____ is defined as those who display criminal-like behavior. A term first used by E. A. Ross to refer to flagitious (wicked) practices that had not yet been condemned by criminal law.
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Criminaloid
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_____ is taking products that are prohibited in this country and selling them overseas where there is less regulation.
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Corporate dumping
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Is corporate crime crime within a legitimate occupation on behalf of one’s employer?
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True
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_____ is known as games that win the confidence of victims in order to take advantage of them.
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Confidence (con) games
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_____ is defined as a term used in the text to describe a practice in which auto dealer franchises are required to force accessories and unnecessary sales onto customers in order to keep their franchise.
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Coerced crime
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_____ is a dishonest practice by stockbrokers of unnecessarily causing many buys and sells of stock in order to collect commissions.
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Churning
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Is big dirty secret that the criminal justice system is soft on white-collar crime?
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True
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_____ is known as swindlers pretend to be bank examiners and ask to borrow “buy money” to catch a dishonest teller.
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Bank examiner’s scam
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_____ is defined as a scam that preys on naive elderly victims. For example, an elderly man might be falsely accused of sexual relations with a young female who is really a con artist.
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Badger game
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What is the big dirty secret?
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The criminal justice system is soft on white-collar crime.
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Which of the following is not an example of crime against consumers by professionals and merchants?
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Pyramid
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White-collar crime cost several times as much as “street crime.”
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True
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White-collar crime did not exist before the twentieth century.
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False
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The acquiring of information through deceptive or illegal forms in the corporate world is known as ______.
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Industrial espionage
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Which of the following involves the labor officials and negotiators secretly making a deal with the management to the disadvantage of the workers whom the labor officials represent?
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Sweetheart contract
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Which of the following were identified as some of the reforms of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act?
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All of these
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Employees who are willing to step forward to reveal wrongdoing by their employers are referred to as ______.
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Whistleblowers
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Theft from an employer by an individual who has reached a position of financial trust is known as _____.
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Embezzlement
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Warez release groups are organized syndicates that steal music, movies, and other software to distribute across the internet.
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True
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Which of the following was not one of the offenses that the Watergate team was charged with?
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Homicide
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Which of the following is not a similarity between corporate and traditional offenders?
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Offenders lose status among their peers
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The occupational/organizational crime grid classifies the crimes in terms of both perpetrators and victims.
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True
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______ refers to crimes committed by businesses or officials, committed on behalf of the employing organizations.
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Corporate crime
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Occupational crime refers to crime by business or officials, committed on behalf of the employing organization.
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False
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