White Collar Crime
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1. Refers mainly to small - inexpensive - and expendable components and tools such as nails - bolts - scrap metals - pliers - and drill bits.

2. Manipulation of products - Short weighing - Bait-and-switch - Collection of taxes on nontaxable items [auto shop labor] - Wage theft

3. Let the buyer beware - has traditionally regulated the relationship between buyers and sellers

4. High returns are promised - Some early investors may receive payoffs - but most of the invested money is spent by the perpetrators

5. The corporate empires of the robber barons (for example: Rockefeller - Carnegie - Vanderbilt - Gould - and Frick) of the second half of the 19th century were involved in every manner of bribery - fraud - stock manipulation - predation against competi

6. Corporations with contracts to provide goods and services to the government. [Halliburton no-bid contracts]

7. Decreasing the number of high-wage union jobs - reducing wages of US workers - hiring illegal immigrants and the use of offshore plants for cheap workers

8. Food - transport - medical

9. Internal computer crimes (sabotaging programs) - Telecommunications crimes (hacking) - Computer manipulation crimes (embezzlements and fraud) - Computers in support of criminal enterprises - Hardware / software thefts (corporate level mainly)

10. A case in which the Ford company placed the gas tank in the rear of the car to save money on engineering costs. When the car was involved in rear-end collisions the gas tank exploded - burning some people to death

11. Refers to buying or selling a security - in breach of a fiduciary duty or other relationships of trust and confidence - while in possession of nonpublic information about the security

12. Goods and supplies that are delivered and paid for but cannot be accounted for by sales or stockroom surveys [because the items disappeared]

13. Large corporations taking advantage of political corruption - the absence or paucity of regulatory controls - and the desperation for economic enterprise characteristic of many developing nations

14. Refers to plagiarism - embezzlement of university discretionary funds - forgery - claims about credentials

15. Billing for unnecessary tests and services - is the most common form of medical fraud and it is extremely difficult to prove and prosecute

16. The Hooker Chemical Corporation bought the canal; drained it - and began dumping metal drums filled with highly toxic chemical wastes. Eventually the property was acquired by a local school board - and both a school and residential neighborhood were

17. Karl Marx recognized dark side to most corporations. Marx regarded corporations as a capitalist system that exploits and dehumanizes workers and deprives them of a fair return on their labor. The pursuit of profit is the principle rational for the co

18. Refers to a type of Employee Crime: known as cheating or swindling

19. Pilfering - Chiseling - Fraud - Embezzlement

20. At one point the most-wanted computer criminal in the U.S. and was convicted of various computer and communications related crimes

21. Gaining unauthorized access to computer system - file or network by using their specialized knowledge of computers

22. For lying about a stock sale conspiracy - and obstruction of justice.

23. 1. It is indirect in the sense that victims are not assaulted by another person 2. The effects of corporate violence are removed in time from the action that caused the harm 3. Involves a large number of individuals acting collectively - which causes

24. Corporations operating in third-world countries include highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions at industrial facilities; exportation of unsafe products

25. Cheating employees out of overtime pay (Wal-Mart) - Denying workers their pensions (Police Agency) - and Extortion (falsely accusing employees of theft to comp their pay