Exam 13: White-Collar and Organized Crime

Environmental crimes involve violations of the criminal law that damage protected land areas.

Which of the following is an example of environmental crime?

Edwin Sutherland applied elements of ________ theory to white-collar crime.

According to Edwin Sutherland, a white-collar offender was a person of high social status and respectability.

_________occupational crimes are especially likely to be reduced by enforcement and protective efforts.

Identify the five types of activities that may qualify as organized crime

Despite the globalization of crime, U.S. law enforcement activities have not had to expand beyond national borders.

Private health-care programs are the most likely to be victims of health-care fraud.

Loan sharking involve lending money at rates higher than those prescribed by law.

What approaches might best control organized crime? Give examples of these approaches

What was the Teapot Dome Scandal of 1929 and how did it end?

State authority occupational crime is committed by professionals in their occupational capacity.

Which of the following is an example of corporate fraud?

acted as a quasi-police organization in the Italian ghetto areas of American cities during the industrial era.

The rapid development of African criminal enterprises since the 1980s is due to

________has been called the biggest white-collar crime in history.

Which organized criminal enterprise is set up around a clan-like structure, rather than using the structure found in the traditional Sicilian Mafia?

According to Hirschi and Gottfredson, selection processes inherent to the high end of the occupational structure tend to recruit people with relatively low propensity to crime.

What were the two acts created by federal legislators in reaction to the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and what were they designed to do?