Exam 2: Studying White Collar Crime and Assessing Its Cost

Which of the following is not a limitation of "journalistic" research on white collar crime?

Some types of white collar crime involve large numbers of victims, each of whom suffers relatively minor losses.

It is possible for consumer fraud to be overreported as well as underreported.

Which of the following is not an example of secondary data?

Mark Dowie's "Pinto Madness," originally published in Mother Jones in 1977, was a journalistic report that exposed a significant example of corporate misconduct.

The positivistic approach to the study of white collar crime is associated with:

Which of the following would be an indirect victim of white collar crime?

Victims of major frauds by organizations may endure significant financial losses, but are unlikely to suffer emotional or psychological trauma.

Problems of _____ may be intensified in the study of white collar crime if researchers are drawn to the field by moral outrage.

The economic loss from a white collar crime is least likely to be based upon an assessment of:

Prosecuted white collar crime cases are more likely to involve organizational victims rather than individual victims.

Archival data in white collar crime cases is likely to be much more extensive than in conventional crime cases.

A direct relationship can be established between people's perceptions of the seriousness of white collar crimes and their relative willingness to convict offenders and support harsh laws.

No survey has yet been conducted to study the reasoning of federal judges during the sentencing process for white collar offenders.

White collar crime is a sociological phenomenon, and accordingly other disciplines have little to contribute to our understanding of it.

Victimology and the victim's rights movement have been almost exclusively directed toward victims of conventional predatory crime.

The humanistic approach to studying white collar crime assumes that the subject can be studied "scientifically."

It has been calculated that the risk of injury in the workplace is greater than the risk of injury from conventional violent crime.

The records of official agencies provide the best type of information on white collar offenders because they are completely objective and unbiased.

In more recent years the unit of analysis in the study of white collar crime has increasingly shifted from the organization to the individual.