Deck 13: White-collar and Organized Crime

Question 1

Pilferage is an example of _____.

A) government corruption
B) pornography
C) blue-collar crime
D) employee theft

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following statements reflects a basic similarity between white-collar crime and street crime?

A) Both types of crime involve stealing and violence.
B) Both types of crime involve government cooperation.
C) Only one involves stealing and violence.
D) Both types of crime have similar economic costs.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which of the following terms emphasizes that crime can be done by and on behalf of organizations,many of them corporations,but some of them small businesses,including blue-collar businesses such as auto repair shops?

A) Walmart crime
B) Institutional crime
C) Situation crime
D) Organizational crime

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following is thought to be involved in several legitimate businesses,including trash-hauling operations,the vending and amusement machine industries,and the toxic-waste dumping industry?

A) Street crime
B) Corporate crime
C) Cybercrime
D) Organized crime

Question 5

Organized crime began anew in _____ in the early 1800s,where almost 1 million people-most of them poor,half of them immigrants,and many of them unemployed-lived.

A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Los Angeles
D) Cleveland

Question 6

The earliest example of organized crime is_____,in which pirates roamed the high seas and plundered ship.

A) smuggling
B) snatching
C) piracy
D) chiseling

Question 7

The primary intent of the persons committing _____ is to benefit the organization for which they work.

A) university crime
B) corporate crime
C) military crime
D) street crime

Question 8

Which of the following is estimated at between $77 billion and $259 billion annually and has received perhaps the most attention of any professional fraud?

A) Legal fraud
B) Plumbing fraud
C) Health care fraud
D) University fraud

Question 9

Which of the following best represents the economic cost of white-collar crime?

A) $1 million annually
B) $34 million annually
C) $121 billion annually
D) $575 billion annually

Question 10

Advertisers obviously do their best to sell their products and engage legally in exaggerated claims,or _____.

A) pastry
B) puffery
C) pasty
D) porky

Question 11

Which scenario is an example of restraint of trade that violates antitrust law?

A) A government official lies regarding a law's impact such as the Affordable Care Act.
B) A bank loans money knowing the borrower cannot pay it back.
C) A company buys out all the others so it can raise its prices without fear of losing sales.
D) A corporation hires lobbyists to have a law changed in its favor.

Question 12

Auto repair fraud consists of overcharging for repairs and unnecessary or faulty repairs.This type of business fraud costs more than an estimated _____ annually.

A) $1 million
B) $4 million
C) $3 billion
D) $20 billion

Question 13

Police and political corruption is also a:

A) crime against world culture.
B) violation of public trust.
C) crime against human nature.
D) violation of foreign policy

Question 14

The most infamous case of corporate violence is probably that of the _____,which was put on the market in 1971 even though the company knew it could easily explode in minor rear-end collisions.

A) Toyota Tacoma
B) Chrysler Spartan
C) Ford Pinto
D) Kia Rio

Question 15

Sutherland coined the term _____ and studied the seventy largest U.S.corporations and found that they had violated antitrust,false advertising,bribery,and other laws.

A) street crime
B) white-collar crime
C) visible crime
D) vacant lot crime

Question 16

Financier Bernard Madoff used a _____ for some fifteen years to enrich himself and other people who worked with him.

A) Ponzi scheme
B) drug tunnel
C) government office
D) Nigerian scheme

Question 17

Which of the following best describes a "typical" corporate criminal?

A) African-American male
B) Latin female
C) Asian female
D) White male

Question 18

Which of the following best describes the term occupational crime?

A) It is committed by individuals in the course of their occupation for personal gain.
B) It is a very recent activity, only occurring in the last decade.
C) It is committed only by corporations.
D) It is a product disorganized neighborhoods and poverty.

Question 19

In the early 1900s,the _____ bitterly criticized business and political corruption and condemned the cruel treatment of workers.

A) posers
B) fences
C) walkers
D) muckrakers

Question 20

Despite some recent publicized prosecutions of prominent individuals accused of corporate crime,the legal treatment of corporate criminals continues to be _____.

A) fairly lenient
B) fairly tough
C) extremely lenient
D) extremely tough

Question 21

Most organizational crime is committed by minorities.

Question 22

White-collar crime involves the theft of small merchandise,tools,stationery,and other items.

Question 23

A new type of fraud-collective embezzlement-emerged in the 1980s in the savings and loan and other financial industries.

Question 24

Embezzlement involves the theft of cash and the misappropriation or misuse of funds.

Question 25

Occupational crime is committed by individuals in the course of their occupation for personal gain.

Question 26

Organized crime is non-existent in Japan.

Question 27

The earliest example of organized crime is piracy.

Question 28

White-collar crime is just a version of street crime.

Question 29

Insider trading is a form of medical fraud.

Question 30

There is very little fraud in the health care industry,less than $1 million per year.

Question 31

When did organized crime's power and wealth increase enormously?

A) Big Brother
B) Police Academy
C) Casino
D) Godfather

Question 32

The news media tends to cover white-collar crime more than street crime.

Question 33

The Mafia mystique was popularized in important congressional hearings beginning in the 1950s.

Question 34

Corporate crime is committed by business executives who commit the crime for their corporations' financial gain.

Question 35

When did organized crime's power and wealth increase enormously?

A) yokiko
B) sakami
C) yakuza
D) sashimi

Question 36

White-collar criminals generally receive very harsh sentences.

Question 37

In the early 1900s,the muckrakers bitterly criticized business and political corruption and condemned the cruel treatment of workers.

Question 38

When did organized crime's power and wealth increase enormously?

A) emigrant inversion concept
B) alien conspiracy model
C) migrant invasion principle
D) immigrant transnational

Question 39

When did organized crime's power and wealth increase enormously?

A) Prohibition
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) Civil War

Question 40

When did organized crime's power and wealth increase enormously?

A) Irish
B) Italian
C) African-American
D) German

Question 41

_____ created the term white-collar crime to describe crime committed by and within corporations.

Question 42

Distinguish between occupational and corporate crime.

Question 43

Bernard Madoff was discovered to have been using a(n)_____ scheme.

Question 44

Organized crime's power and wealth _____ enormously during the Prohibition era.

Question 45

Organized crime members in Japan are called the _____.

Question 46

Have you ever been guilty of pilferage? How did you justify your "corporate crime?"

Question 47

_____ involves the theft of merchandise,tools,stationery,and other items.

Question 48

Explain the concept of corporate violence.Provide several examples.

Question 49

Do you agree that television and movies glamorize organized crime? Which types?

Question 50

Occupational crime is committed by individuals in the course of their occupation for _____ gain.

Question 51

If corporations conspire to set high prices for goods and services rather than allowing the free market to work,they are guilty of _____.

Question 52

In the early 1900s,the _____ bitterly criticized business and political corruption.

Question 53

Most professions practice _____ by establishing rules for their members' behavior.

Question 54

Explain why some claim the alien conspiracy model is really a myth.

Question 55

Police and politicians violate the public trust by accepting _____ and kickbacks.