Deck 13: White-Collar and Organized Crime

Question 1

Which of the following best represents the economic cost of white-collar crime?

A) $1 million annually
B) $34 million annually
C) $121 billion annually
D) $588 billion annually

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following terms emphasizes that crime can be done by and on behalf of organizations,many of them corporations,but some of them small businesses,including blue-collar businesses such as auto repair shops?

A) Walmart crime
B) Institutional crime
C) Situation crime
D) Organizational crime

Answer 2

D

Question 3

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.

A) Chicago
B) New York City
C) Los Angeles
D) Cleveland

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following is thought to be involved in several legitimate businesses,including trash-hauling operations,the vending and amusement machine industries,and the toxic-waste dumping industry?

A) Street crime
B) Corporate crime
C) Cybercrime
D) Organized crime

Question 5

Police and political corruption is also a:

A) Crime against world culture
B) Violation of public trust
C) Crime against human nature
D) Violation of foreign policy

Question 6

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

A) Ponzi scheme
B) Drug tunnel
C) Government office
D) Nigerian scheme

Question 7

Pilferage is an example of _____.

A) Government corruption
B) Pornography
C) Blue-collar crime
D) Employee theft

Question 8

Sutherland coined the term _____ and studied the seventy largest U.S.corporations and found that they had violated antitrust,false advertising,bribery,and other laws.

A) Street crime
B) White-collar crime
C) Visible crime
D) Vacant lot crime

Question 9

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

A) Both types of crime involve stealing and violence
B) Both types of crime involve government cooperation
C) Only one involves stealing and violence
D) Both types of crime have similar economic costs

Question 10

Which of the following best describes a "typical" corporate criminal?

A) African-American male
B) Latin female
C) Asian female
D) White male

Question 11

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

A) Fairly lenient
B) Fairly tough
C) Extremely lenient
D) Extremely tough

Question 12

Advertisers obviously do their best to sell their products and engage legally in exaggerated claims,or _____.

A) Pastry
B) Puffery
C) Pasty
D) Porky

Question 13

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

A) Smuggling
B) Snatching
C) Piracy
D) Chiseling

Question 14

Which scenario is an example of restraint of trade that violates antitrust law?

A) A government official lies regarding a law's impact such as the Affordable Care Act.
B) A bank loans money knowing the borrower cannot pay it back.
C) A company buys out all the others so it can raise its prices without fear of losing sales.
D) A corporation hires lobbyists to have a law changed in its favor.

Question 15

Auto repair fraud consists of overcharging for repairs and unnecessary or faulty repairs.This type of business fraud costs more than an estimated _____ annually.

A) $1 million
B) $4 million
C) $3 billion
D) $20 billion

Question 16

The primary intent of the persons committing _____ is to benefit the organization for which they work.

A) University crime
B) Corporate crime
C) Military crime
D) Street crime

Question 17

Which of the following best describes the term occupational crime?

A) It is committed by individuals in the course of their occupation for personal gain
B) It is a very recent activity, only occurring in the last decade
C) It is committed only by corporations
D) It is a product disorganized neighborhoods and poverty

Question 18

The most infamous case of corporate violence is probably that of the _____,which was put on the market in 1971 even though the company knew it could easily explode in minor rear-end collisions.

A) Toyota Tacoma
B) Chrysler Spartan
C) Ford Pinto
D) Kia Rio

Question 19

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

A) Posers
B) Fences
C) Walkers
D) Muckrakers

Question 20

Which of the following is estimated at between $77 billion and $259 billion annually and has received perhaps the most attention of any professional fraud?

A) Legal fraud
B) Plumbing fraud
C) Health care fraud
D) University fraud

Question 21

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

Question 22

White-collar crime involves the theft of small merchandise,tools,stationery,and other items.

Question 23

When did organized crime's power and wealth increase enormously?

A) Prohibition
B) World War I
C) World War II
D) Civil War

Question 24

According to the alien conspiracy model,U.S.organized crime is controlled by a small group of _____ families.

A) Irish
B) Italian
C) African-American
D) German

Question 25

Organized crime members in Japan are called the _____.

A) Yokiko
B) Sakami
C) Yakuza
D) Sashimi

Question 26

The news media tends to cover white-collar crime more than street crime.

Question 27

This view,often called the _____ or the Mafia mystique,was popularized in important congressional hearings beginning in the 1950s.

A) Emigrant inversion concept
B) Alien conspiracy model
C) Migrant invasion principle
D) Immigrant transnational

Question 28

The Mafia mystique was popularized in important congressional hearings beginning in the 1950s and later featured in the various _____ films.

A) Big Brother
B) Police Academy
C) Casino
D) Godfather

Question 29

White-collar criminals generally receive very harsh sentences.

Question 30

Organized crime is non-existent in Japan.

Question 31

White-collar crime is just a version of street crime.

Question 32

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

Question 33

There is very little fraud in the health care industry,less than $1 million per year.

Question 34

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

Question 35

The earliest example of organized crime is piracy.

Question 36

Insider trading is a form of medical fraud.

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

Corporate crime is committed by business executives who commit the crime for their corporations' financial gain.

Question 40

Most organizational crime is committed by minorities.

Question 41

Organized crime's power and wealth _____ enormously during the Prohibition era.

Question 42

Explain why some claim the alien conspiracy model is really a myth.

Question 43

Police and politicians violate the public trust by accepting _____ and kickbacks.

Question 44

_____ created the term white-collar crime to describe crime committed by and within corporations.

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

Find a recent case involving health care fraud.Summarize the case and conclude with how this incident could be prevented and what is an appropriate punishment for this crime.

Question 50

Discuss the monetary cost of street crime compared to white-collar crime.

Question 51

Organized crime members in Japan are called the _____.

Question 52

Most professions practice _____ by establishing rules for their members' behavior.

Question 53

Find a recent case involving criminal harm caused from pollution.Summarize the case and conclude with how this incident could be prevented and what is an appropriate punishment for this crime.

Question 54

Explain the concept of corporate violence.Provide several examples.

Question 55

Bernard Madoff was discovered to have been using a(n)_____ scheme.

Question 56

Matching:
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