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Chapter 12: White-Collar

and Organized Crime
Objectives
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Multiple Choice
This activity contains 15 questions.

Edwin Sutherland defined white-collar crime as criminal behavior

committed by a person:
of upper-class position.
of respectability and high social status in the course of his/her occupation.
who holds a position in the management sector of the economy.
who earns at least a six-figure income.

Which of the following terms has/have been used as (a) substitutes for
white-collar crime?
elite deviance
respectable crime
upperworld crime
a, b, and c are all correct.

Employee theft that involves the theft of merchandise, tools, stationary,

and other items is termed:
tipping.
pilferage.
embezzlement.
boosting.

Employee theft that involves the theft of cash and the misappropriation or
misuse of funds is termed:
tipping.
embezzlement.
pilferage.
boosting.

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Henry N. Pontell and Kitty Calavita coined the term __________ in

referring to situations where top management steals company funds.
high-tech pilferage
tipping
collective embezzlement
boosting

A report by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging estimated that

health-care fraud costs $__________ billion annually.
50
1
10
100

One common financial crime is where a company executive, stockbroker,

or investment banker with special knowledge of a company's economic
fortunes (such as a proposed merger) buys or sells stock in that company
before this information is shared with the public. This practice is referred
to as:
boosting.
spilling the beans.
collective embezzlement.
insider trading.

The text points out that corporations may get together and set high prices
for goods and services rather than allowing the free market to determine
prices. This practice is termed:
price fixing.
hacking.
boosting
slamming.

In the text, "quiet violence" refers to which category of violence?

subcultural
interpersonal

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intimate
corporate

When pesticides are sprayed from the air, sometimes the wind will blow
the pesticide spray hundreds of yards until it reaches an area where farm
workers are picking crops. This problem is referred to as "pesticide:
creeping."
infusion."
overspray."
drift."

In the 1980s, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly put a new arthritis
drug, Oraflex, on the market. Ultimately, over 60 people died as a result of
its use and another 1,000 were made seriously ill. In 1985, Lilly pleaded
guilty to deceiving the government. Lilly's legal punishment was:
all corporate officials who participated in the deception served long prison terms and
the company was fined $1 billion.
all corporate officials who participated in the deception were fined $1million.
the company was fined $25,000 and one of its executives was fined $15,000.
a, b, and c are all incorrect.

The total cost of white-collar crime, broadly defined, reaches $__________

billion.
716
275
55
25

Which of the following measures are suggested in the text for reducing
white-collar crime?
Federal and state regulatory agency budgets must be reduced.
The media would have to focus as much or more attention on corporate and other
white-collar crime as they now do on street crime.
Less severe punishments should be considered.

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a, b, and c are all incorrect.

The earliest example of organized crime is:

piracy.
illegal drug sales.
gambling.
prostitution.

The "Mafia mystique" is also known as the:

"wise guys" model.

Sopranos.
alien conspiracy model.
Godfather legend.

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