exam1 Flashcards
Higher ups or people with respectability and social status committing crimes.
White Collar Crime
A theory about the nature of mental states. Everything has a function in society.
Functionalism
Theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one’s trust or belonging to one’s employer
Embezzlement
More lenient punishment to people who committed a white collar crime, get different treatment, preferred treatment.
Differential Implementations of Law
What are the 3 common methods of measuring white collar crimes?
Cross-Sectional studies, Industry Specific Studies & Victimization surveys
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?
NIBRS
Social feedback loop has two key elements namely, word of mouth &?
Hard mentality
According to Sutherland, people with higher socioeconomic stats make laws that are favorable to them. It’s called the ____ model of justice
Conflict
Who was the Governor of Illinois who is serving 14 years in prison?
Blagojevich
How many years was Bernie Madoff sentenced? How much did his scam amount to ?
150 years & 65 Billion
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
Ponzi schemes
What was known as the greed decade
1980’s
What was known as the betrayal decade
1990’s
What are the 3 types of costs that has to do with WCC
Political, Financial & Social
Criminal mind or intent
Mens Rea
Refers to medical products that are worthless and can’t deliver things they promise
Quackery
A method of operation
Modus operandi
Liability can be assigned even though there isn’t purposeful harm
Common Law Tort Doctrine
Type of research that is abused
Applied research
What US Department is responsible for identifying and reporting violations in meat plants ?
Department of Agriculture
What act in 1906 covered testing drugs in US
Food & drug act
Practice of providing real or genuine sample for testing but the subsequent medicine is fake
Free Sample Testing
Type of law suit where one of the parties is a group of people who are represented collectively by a member of that group
Class action
Let the buyer beware this term means that the buyer assumes the risk that a product may fail to meet expectations or have defects
Caveat emptor doctrine
3 kinds of contamination
Organic- cancer
Inorganic-metals like lead/ development in children
Radioactive-prenatal damage
Any type of conduct that grossly deviated from normal reasonable standards of an ordinary person. Disregard for human life or safety
Criminal negligence
