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Question 1

Higher ups or people with respectability and social status committing crimes.

Answer 1

White Collar Crime

Question 2

A theory about the nature of mental states. Everything has a function in society.

Answer 2

Functionalism

Question 3

Theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one’s trust or belonging to one’s employer

Answer 3

Embezzlement

Question 4

More lenient punishment to people who committed a white collar crime, get different treatment, preferred treatment.

Answer 4

Differential Implementations of Law

Question 5

What are the 3 common methods of measuring white collar crimes?

Answer 5

Cross-Sectional studies, Industry Specific Studies & Victimization surveys

Question 6

It is argued that UCR’s don’t provide adequate data on white collar crimes. As a researcher, what other good source of white collar crime data would you use?

Answer 6

NIBRS

Question 7

Social feedback loop has two key elements namely, word of mouth &?

Answer 7

Hard mentality

Question 8

According to Sutherland, people with higher socioeconomic stats make laws that are favorable to them. It’s called the ____ model of justice

Answer 8

Conflict

Question 9

Who was the Governor of Illinois who is serving 14 years in prison?

Answer 9

Blagojevich

Question 10

How many years was Bernie Madoff sentenced? How much did his scam amount to ?

Answer 10

150 years & 65 Billion

Question 11

What is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator & is known as a pyramid scheme

Answer 11

Ponzi schemes

Question 12

What was known as the greed decade

Answer 12

1980’s

Question 13

What was known as the betrayal decade

Answer 13

1990’s

Question 14

What are the 3 types of costs that has to do with WCC

Answer 14

Political, Financial & Social

Question 15

Criminal mind or intent

Answer 15

Mens Rea

Question 16

Refers to medical products that are worthless and can’t deliver things they promise

Answer 16

Quackery

Question 17

A method of operation

Answer 17

Modus operandi

Question 18

Liability can be assigned even though there isn’t purposeful harm

Answer 18

Common Law Tort Doctrine

Question 19

Type of research that is abused

Answer 19

Applied research

Question 20

What US Department is responsible for identifying and reporting violations in meat plants ?

Answer 20

Department of Agriculture

Question 21

What act in 1906 covered testing drugs in US

Answer 21

Food & drug act

Question 22

Practice of providing real or genuine sample for testing but the subsequent medicine is fake

Answer 22

Free Sample Testing

Question 23

Type of law suit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member of that group

Answer 23

Class action

Question 24

Let the buyer beware this term means that the buyer assumes the risk that a product may fail to meet expectations or have defects

Answer 24

Caveat emptor doctrine

Question 25

3 kinds of contamination

Answer 25

Organic- cancer
Inorganic-metals like lead/ development in children
Radioactive-prenatal damage

Question 26

Any type of conduct that grossly deviated from normal reasonable standards of an ordinary person. Disregard for human life or safety

Answer 26

Criminal negligence