Exam 13: Enterprise Crime: White-Collar, Green-Collar, and Transnational Organized Crime

A ________ mortgage is a home loan given to borrowers who, because of their income, would not ordinarily qualify for bank loans.

In 1970, Congress passed the Organized Crime Control Act. Title IX of the act, probably its most effective measure, is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act.

Crips, Bloods, and the MS-13 are now referred to as:

A deterrence strategy attempts to create a marketplace incentive to obey the law.

__________________occurs when contractors provide the government or other corporations with incomplete or misleading information on how much it will actually cost to fulfill the contracts on which they are bidding.

A division of markets involves a corporation requiring customers who use one of its services to use other services it offers.

The term "white-collar crime" was not used until the 1930s to describe the criminal activities of the wealthy and powerful.

Explain how white-collar crime and green-collar crime are linked.

What causal explanation of white-collar crime states that the motives that produce white-collar crimes are the same as those that produce any other criminal behavior?

When firms divide a region into territories, and each firm agrees not to compete in the territories of others, it is illegal and is called:

Influence peddling occurs when individuals who hold important institutional positions sell information to outsiders.

Interest in corporate crime first emerged in the early 1900s, when a group of writers known as _____________________ targeted the monopolistic business practices of John D. Rockefeller and other corporate business leaders

Many offenders feel free to engage in business crime because they can easily rationalize its effects.

According to the _____________ perspective, environmental crimes are violations of existing criminal laws designed to protect people and the environment

There are criticisms that efforts to control green crime are not successful because law enforcement efforts are stratified by race and class: authorities seem to be less diligent when green crimes occur in minority or lower-class areas.

In 1977, Congress passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which made it illegal to:

The FBI belongs to several international working groups aimed at combating transnational gangs in various parts of the world.

Which Act established health care fraud as an independent federal criminal offense that carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison?

One method of controlling white-collar crime is through the use of compliance strategies. How do compliance strategies work?

What causal explanation of white-collar crime states that some organizations promote criminal enterprise in the same way that lower-class culture encourages the development of juvenile gangs and street crime?