Exam 6: White Collar Crime

For which of the following types of deviance is it impossible to place every single person in the society along a single axis or dimension, from deviant to more conventional?

Illegal immigration is an example of which of the following offenses?

By definition, white collar crime is the type of crime that most outrages the public conscience.

Which of the following types of offenses is the perpetrator (or perpetrators) most likely to be enmeshed in a network of persons who act in concert and coordination:

The form of crime that has the greatest likelihood of harming the greatest number of people in the most serious ways is:

All white-collar crime is corporate crime and vice versa.

Why does certain behavior that is enacted within an organization setting merit belonging to a separate and distinct type of deviance? Does this distinction make sense or is it an effort to over-complicate the picture? Why or why not?

Which of the following statements about corporate crime is true:

The most basic reason that people engage in white collar crime is that they are in a position to do so.

When convicted corporate offenders who commit acts that harm many people are sentenced, juries tend to hand down penalties that are commensurate with the crimes.

Experts estimate the worldwide cost of computer crime at:

Which of the following are not features or elements of corporate crime?

When corporate criminals are arrested and go to trial (which is rare), juries:

With most corporate crime:

Which of the following types of deviance is not part of Erving Goffman's three classic types of stigma?

All white-collar criminals are rich and powerful.

The perpetrators of which of the following forms of malfeasance tend to be protected from condemnation and prosecution by an aura of legitimacy?

In most corporate crime, victimization tends to be diffuse, or spread out among the population.

In embezzlement, the victim is the corporation.

In what ways do the four cases of corporate crime-the collapse of WorldCom, the pillaging of Tyco, the bankruptcy of Global Crossing, and the cooked books of Enron-illustrate the generalizations that apply to corporate crime discussed in this chapter?