Exam 11: White-Collar Crime: Occupational and Corporate

Which of the following resembles the familiar chain letter that asks you to send a dollar to the first name on the list, add your name to the bottom, duplicate four copies of the new list, and recruit four new members to continue the chain?

Many white-collar crimes are considered semiprofessional.

The cost of traditional crimes far exceeds the cost of white-collar crimes as recorded in official police statistics.

Employees who are willing to step forward, usually at great personal sacrifice, to reveal wrongdoing of the part of their employers are guilty of ______.

A person in a position of financial trust transfers money from the corporation into a personal account. This is known as ______.

If the government appears to have a solid case, which of the following are corporations permitted to plead?

How does rational choice theory relate to white-collar crime?

Cheating on government contracts is an example of ______.

Commercial bribery and kickbacks (in which the individual personally benefits) can take place in a variety of ways.

The belief that government should not interfere in business is referred to as ______.

The term quack is usually associated with crime in which profession?

Crime that is committed during the course of a legitimate occupation for the benefit of the employee is referred to as ______ crime.

Stockholders that collect high commissions by running up sales with unnecessary buy-and-sell orders are guilty of ______.

A(n) ______ is a legal entity that permits a business to make use of capital provided by stockholders.

Those who prospered by flagitious [shameful] practices that may not yet come under the ban of public opinion were referred to as ______ by Lombroso and Ross.

What is the "big dirty secret"?

______ entails directing patients to a particular pharmacy.

Carl is a small merchant who advertised a product that is not available. Yet, he proceeds to push a more expensive product on the customer. The technique he is using is an example of ______.

Discuss the impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962).

Occupational and corporate offenders generally do not view their activities as criminal.