Deck 3: The Movement Against White-Collar Crime

Question 1

What type of movement (as defined by Blumer) do Cullen et al. use to explain the movement against white-collar crime?

A) specific social movement
B) reform movement
C) general social movement
D) parsimonious movement

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The authors of Corporate Crime Under Attack disagreed with Katz because he emphasized that the source of the social movement against corporate crime was:

A) attorneys who staff government agencies
B) the effect of the media on corporate crime
C) the social protest events that took place before Watergate
D) criminological research of corporate crime

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to the authors of Corporate Crime Under Attack, which of the following is the central source of the movement against corporate crime?

A) attorneys who staff government agencies
B) police officers who work in urban areas
C) the legitimacy crisis
D) functionalist sociology professors
E) the authentication issue

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to Simpson, which of the following would not explain how political opportunities influenced why the movement against white-collar crime slowed considerably after the Ford Pinto case?

A) less funding was provided for regulatory agencies
B) contributions to campaigns helped corporations buy "favorable legal treatment"
C) corporations failed to challenge the legal and political environment
D) funding for academics to research white-collar crime was reduced

Question 5

The authors of Corporate Crime Under Attack agree with Sally Simpson's observation that the movement against white-collar crime disappeared and was inconsequential in the 1990s.

Question 6

Which of the following is a "conscious, organized effort by members of a society to construct a more satisfying structure"?

A) revolutionary movement
B) revitalization movement
C) rhetorical movement
D) representative movement

Question 7

Which of the following provides an explanation as to why the focus and concern about white-collar crime never really disappeared?

A) U.S. Sentencing Guidelines sanctions were created for organized crime
B) victims were successful in receiving costly monetary settlements from civil action lawsuits
C) corporations were sued in wrongful death cases
D) all of the above

Question 8

According to the authors of Corporate Crime Under Attack, most of the prosecutions of corporate crimes were oriented against individuals as opposed to corporations.

Question 9

Which of the following is not true regarding the movement against white-collar crime?

A) the movement was largely symbolic
B) the movement was cyclical in nature
C) the movement waned somewhat during the 1980s and 1990s
D) it involved a rejection rather than a revitalization of legal and academic traditions

Question 10

The movement against white-collar crime was influenced by the mythic nature of the Ford Pinto case.

Question 11

Discuss the four themes that pertain to the general movement against white-collar crime.

Question 12

Compare how Sally Simpson and Cullen et al. differ in their beliefs that the movement against white-collar crime slowed during the 1990s.

Question 13

Discuss how the movement against white-collar crime "revitalized" the professions of prosecutors and criminologists. Were these changes consistent with the longstanding ideology of their professions?