Chat with AIExam 13: Enterprise Crime: White-Collar, Green-Collar, and Transnational Organized Crime
Explain green collar crime through the use of an example. Who is in control of dealing with green-collar crimes?
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VerifiedThere is no single vision to define the concept of green-collar crimes. Green-collar crime can take many different forms, ranging from deforestation and illegal logging to violations of worker safety. The United States and most sovereign nations have passed laws making it a crime to pollute or damage the environment. The major enforcement arm against environmental crimes is the Environmental Protection Agency, which was given full law enforcement authority in 1988. Example will vary.
Explain the evolution of street gangs to mega-gangs.
(23) VerifiedTraditional Eurocentric gangs are being replaced by transnational mega-gangs. Some, such as the Crips, Bloods, and MS-13, have expanded from local street gangs to national mega-gangs with thousands of members. For example, the Surenos is an alliance of hundreds of individual Mexican American street gangs that originated in Southern California. Surenos gang members' main sources of income are the retail-level distribution of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine within prison systems and in the community, as well as extortion of drug distributors on the streets.
Disposal into rivers or lakes of excess fertilizers, herbicides, and insecticides from agricultural land and residential areas is an example of _____________.
(44) Verifiedillegal pollution
Explain exploitation and influence peddling, and describe how they differ.
(26) Using illegal tactics to make profits in the marketplace is known as:
(38) White-collar offenders who claim that everyone commits crime reflect the _________ or _________ view of causation.
(30) The ____________________of the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the authority to regulate white-collar crime.
(27) Affirmative tax evasion occurs when an individual fails to pay taxes or does not report all of his or her income.
(47) _________________ occurs when an organization that either (a) advances credit, (b) provides loans, (c) supports people financially, or (d) reimburses them for services provided to a third party is the target of criminal activity.
(36) Which scheme involves telling victims that certain financial instruments have been issued by legitimate organizations, and that those investments are high-payoff and low-risk?
(42) Many people convicted of white-collar crime typically work in lower-echelon positions, and their acts seem motivated more by economic survival than by greed and power.
(29) _________ is a white-collar enforcement strategy that encourages law-abiding behavior through both the threat of economic sanctions and the promise of rewards for conformity.
(31) Identify and discuss the efforts to try to control white-collar crime.
(39) The type of white-collar crime that includes antitrust violations, price fixing, and false advertising is known as corporate crime.
(40) When powerful institutions willfully violate the laws that restrain them from doing social harm, or that require them to do social good, it is called corporate crime or:
(27) Most businesses in Russia, whether legal, quasilegal, or illegal, must operate with the protection of a:
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