Exam 1: Introduction and Overview of White-Collar Crime

A researcher who spends one month as a department store sales person to anonymously observe and gather data on retail workplace behavior would be conducting what type of research?

Criminologist Sam Wheeler used which type of documents to gain insight into the dynamics of white-collar offenses and how offenders are sentenced in court?

How does the political system differentiate from the regulatory system?

Most students have been the victim of white-collar crime at some point in the past.

Discuss the reasons why white-collar crime should be studied.

Which research strategy involves reviewing official records, reports, and other documents in a study white-collar crime?

When white-collar crime offenders are demonized in the media it makes it difficult to develop efficient prevention strategies.

What method of research did Frank Cullen use in the Ford Pinto Case when he determined that it was "social and legal changes" that made Ford Motor Company more susceptible to criminal intervention and prosecution?

Bernie Madoff's crimes resulted in what major consequences for society?

Archival research on white-collar crime can provide insight into the culture at a given time.

Explain and describe three of the six reasons to study white-collar crime

Changes in which system have led to direct changes in the criminal justice system?

Which of the following is an example of a crime that would be classified as white-collar crime?

Explain the difference between the regulatory system and the criminal and civil justice systems

What is an advantage to archival research?

Discuss two methods of research and how they apply to white-collar crime.

What is a potential role for students in white-collar crime?

Ever since the founding of the Academy of Experimental Criminology, experiments have been used on a regular basis to study white-collar crime.

Which of the following contains three of five principles necessary to study white-collar crime from a scientific perspective?

By studying white-collar crime, we can learn about other types of crime.