Exam 13: White-Collar and Organized Crime

John Braithwaite suggests that corporate officers are motivated to evade the law despite the generally positive relationship that exists between businesses and the government agencies that regulate them.

The replacement of Jewish and Irish gangs by Italian immigrants is an example of ________.

Identify three of the major organized crime groups of different nationalities that currently operate in the U.S. and discuss the type of crime in which they tend to be most involved.

List and define three types of financial crimes

White-collar crimes generally are not committed by terrorists.

Which of the following is not one of the five types of activity that may qualify as organized crime, according to the 1976 federal Task Force on Organized Crime?

According to Howard Abadinsky, increasing law enforcement resources is a way of reducing the economic lure of involvement in organized crime.

Organized crime groups infiltrate legitimate businesses to use as fronts for money __________.

Edwin Sutherland applied his __________ theory to white-collar crime.

The _________ Act was passed to prevent the development of trusts and monopolies in restraint of trade.

Unlawful activity undertaken and supported by organized criminal groups operating across national boundaries is known as __________ organized crime.

State laws defining criminal enterprise are generally much more inclusive than federal statutes.

The obstruction of justice conviction of the accounting firm of Arthur Anderson is an example of __________ crime.

According to Gary Green's typology of occupational crime, __________ occupational crime benefits the employing organization, not the individual employees.

Criminal enterprises originating from the former Soviet Union are part of __________ criminal enterprises.

The expansion of organized crime and their focus on official corruption was due to which event?

The single most important piece of federal legislation that specifically targets organized crime activities is

Welfare fraud includes the use of deceit to obtain worker's compensation or unemployment payments.