Exam 7: Beyond the Ford Pinto Case: The Legacy of Criminalization

Which of the following is a feature of a new criminal statute designed to prevent future criminal activity in the area of bank and thrift industries?

What was the estimated overall financial cost to taxpayers due to the savings and loan scandals of the 1990s?

Why are workplace safety cases rarely brought to court by federal prosecutors?

Discuss the most recent developments in the criminalization of financial and accounting fraud.

Discuss the most recent developments in the criminalization of health and safety violations.

Which of the following is not either a legislative or regulatory response to the financial and accounting frauds that occurred in the early twenty-first century?

Which of the following was not discussed as a traditional factor to motivate companies to provide for the occupational safety and health of their workers?

What federal legislation established the SEC?

Since the Pinto case, what has been the least common type of prosecution of corporations and their executives?

What was the Bridgestone/Firestone debacle?

Discuss the new criminal statues enacted by Congress in response to the savings and loan scandals of the 1990s.

The original TREAD bill, proposed by the Senate, called for penalties of up to $50,000 in fines and up to 15 years in prison.

What is the TREAD Act?

Which decade saw an increase in the number of insider trading scandals?

Which of the following would not be an explanation as to why environmental crimes are more strictly enforced and prosecuted than workplace safety?

Discuss the various federal legislative and regulatory responses to the financial and accounting fraud scandals of the twenty-first century.

Since the Pinto trial concluded more than 25 years ago, prosecutors have been more likely to prosecute nonviolent financially oriented corporate crimes as opposed to violent personal crimes.

What is not true regarding the Bridgestone/Firestone debacle?

Prosecutions for environmental violations have slowly decreased since the Pinto trial.

As of the writing of Corporate Crime Under Attack, which of the following companies has not been prosecuted for fraud?