Exam 13: White-Collar and Organized Crime

Embezzlement involves the theft of cash and the misappropriation or misuse of funds.

_____ involves the theft of merchandise,tools,stationery,and other items.

Despite some recent publicized prosecutions of prominent individuals accused of corporate crime,the legal treatment of corporate criminals continues to be _____.

Which of the following statements reflects a basic similarity between white-collar crime and street crime?

The Mafia mystique was popularized in important congressional hearings beginning in the 1950s.

In the early 1900s,the _____ bitterly criticized business and political corruption.

In the early 1900s,the _____ bitterly criticized business and political corruption and condemned the cruel treatment of workers.

A new type of fraud-collective embezzlement-emerged in the 1980s in the savings and loan and other financial industries.

Organized crime members in Japan are called the _____.

Insider trading is a form of medical fraud.

Organized crime is non-existent in Japan.

In the early 1900s,the muckrakers bitterly criticized business and political corruption and condemned the cruel treatment of workers.

Matching: Match the term or concept with the correct description.

Occupational crime is committed by individuals in the course of their occupation for personal gain.

Organized crime began anew in _____ in the early 1800s,where almost 1 million people-most of them poor,half of them immigrants,and many of them unemployed-lived.

Financier Bernard Madoff used a _____ for some fifteen years to enrich himself and other people who worked with him.

If corporations conspire to set high prices for goods and services rather than allowing the free market to work,they are guilty of _____.

The earliest example of organized crime is_____,in which pirates roamed the high seas and plundered ship.