Exam 8: Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts

Braithwaite and Fisse's defense of the notion of corporations as directly responsible for criminal actions stresses all but which of the following factors?

There are many studies of the biological make-up of white collar offenders.

Diffusion theory focuses on how a fraud spreads among investors via social networks.

The idea of the organization as a context or environment which can influence individual attitudes and behavior in a criminal direction is explained in which of the following perspectives?

Which of the following is not an understanding of the term theory given in the text?

The roots of white collar criminality in early childhood experiences have been fully demonstrated, especially in studies conducted by Freud.

The concept of "bounded rationality":

Differential opportunity theory and status deprivation theory were originally developed to account for white collar offenses.

Which of the following theories, unlike most theories, raises the question of why someone does not engage in criminal behavior?

According to the text, almost anything we might say about white collar crime is rooted in assumptions about all but which of the following?

Rationalizations or neutralizations invoked by white collar offenders are likely to include all but which of the following?

Evaluate the notion that white collar offenders are intrinsically different from non-offenders.What are the principal elements of the demonic, biogenetic, psychological, and sociogenic perspectives on this question, and the answers to the question that each of these perspectives would provide? Which individualistic attributes of white collar offenders do you think should receive further systematic study, and why?

When we say that the Ford Motor Company produced unsafe cars, we are treating the organization as:

Corporate involvement in crime seems to be linked with which of the following factors?