Exam 3: Who Commits Fraud and Why: Criminology and Ethics

The nonshareable problems, Cressey investigated, threatened the status of the subjects, or threatened to prevent them from achieving a higher status than the one they occupied at the time of their violation.

Conspiracy is a means of prosecuting the individuals involved in illegal organized activity.

Identify ethical issues, conflicts of interest, and noncompliance with corporate policies and procedures in the Enron case.

Variables from Albrecht's study of "red flag" variables pertaining to occupational fraud fell into which of the following two categories?

According to Albrecht, opportunities to commit fraud may be created by individuals, or by deficient or missing internal controls.

All of the following are characteristic of torts except:

Which of the following is a significant conclusion based on the research of Hollinger and Clark?

Organizational crimes occur when entities, companies, corporations, not-for-profits, nonprofits, and government bodies, otherwise legitimate and law-abiding organizations, are involved in a criminal offense.

The amount of damages proven under negligence may be relatively uncertain.

The term white-collar crime captures the essence of the type of perpetrator that one finds at the heart of occupational fraud and abuse.

When independent businessmen in Cressey's study converted deposits that had been entrusted to them, they explained it as:

Compare and contrast Cressey's and Albrecht's theories of crime causation.

Three ethical principles provide a framework for ethical decision making. What are they? Briefly summarize their assumptions.

Hollinger and Clark found that the same kinds of employees who engage in workplace deviance also engage in employee theft. According to their research, which of the following is not a characteristic evidence of the employee-thief?

Select the most correct statement from those below regarding the legal standards for negligence.

Which is considered the lowest threshold for ethical decision making?

Which principle of ethical problems was championed by John Stuart Mills?

Discuss alternative courses of action in the Enron case within the framework of appropriate ethical conduct.

The definition of ethics has certain key elements. What are these four key elements?

Large fraud perpetrators are more likely to use the money for all of the following except: