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1
According to criminologist Dwight Smith, what do white-collar, corporate, and organized crimes have in common?
A)serious injury to victims
B)business enterprises
C)homogenous criminality
D)targeted victims
2
Which of the following provisions is not part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
A)creation of a public accounting oversight board
B)increase the resources of the Securities and Exchange Commission
C)decrease the penalties for corporate wrongdoing
D)accountability of CEOs to vouch for the truth of their company's disclosures
3
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was aimed primarily at corporations engaged in:
A)monopolistic practices.
B)embezzlement.
C)unsafe working conditions.
D)illegal sale of stocks.
4
Which criminologist provided the first scholarly account of white-collar crime?
A)Dwight Smith
B)James Fox
C)Marshall Clinard
D)Edwin Sutherland
5
Victims of corporate crime rarely make their victimization known because:
A)frequently they do not realize they are victims.
B)serious injury or death is not common to corporate crime.
C)the violations leading to most injuries are not illegal.
D)corporations have top-notch lawyers.
6
Which of the following type of crime is not considered an occupational crime?
A)Medicare fraud
B)misuse of clients funds by lawyers and brokers
C)fraudulently cashing a check
D)substitution of inferior goods
7
The practice of frequently trading a client's shares of stock to generate large broker commissions is referred to as:
A)churning.
B)insider trading.
C)a boiler operation.
D)check kiting.
8
What is the average number of fraudulent bankruptcies that are filed every day, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
A)50
B)100
C)250
D)500
9
The Major Fraud Act of 1988 created a separate offense to address the crime of:
A)insider trading.
B)government contract fraud.
C)illegal monopolies.
D)homeowners insurance fraud.
10
Criminologists Paul Tracy and James Fox conducted field experiments concerning fraud committed by:
A)the IRS.
B)deceptive advertisers.
C)real estate sales persons.
D)auto-body repair shops.
11
Which of the following factors is considered the primary problem for accurately measuring the frequency of corporate crime?
A)there is no central repository for corporate crime data
B)most corporate violations occur in large companies
C)the precise definitions used for corporate crime
D)the fluctuation of economic factors
12
Most corporations convicted of crime violations employ:
A)over 1000 employees.
B)nearly 500 employees.
C)almost 250 employees.
D)fewer than 100 employees.
13
Which of the following attributed to the majority of tunnel-worker deaths in Hawk's Nest, West Virginia during the Great Depression?
A)pneumonia
B)tuberculosis
C)silicosis
D)dehydration
14
Which of the following factors was the main source of conflict when applying criminal law to corporations between 1850 and 1910?
A)the notion of corporations possessing a soul
B)reluctance to charge corporations with nonfeasance
C)decentralization of corporations
D)the rising power of government regulators
15
Which of the following laws prohibits corporations from obtaining unfair profits from the practices of price-fixing?
A)Sherman Antitrust Act
B)Clayton Antitrust Act
C)RICO Act
D)The Bank Secrecy Act
16
Which model of corporate culpability suggests that the corporate culture is strongly associated with the causes of corporate deviance?
A)Proactive Corporate Fault (PCF)
B)Reactive Corporate Fault (RCF)
C)Corporate Ethos (CE)
D)Corporate Policy (CP)
17
According the Clinard and Yeager investigations, which of the following industries are most likely to be corporate violators?
A)pharmaceutical and automotive industries
B)oil and nuclear industries
C)defense contractors and aviation industries
D)medical and food industries
18
Which of the following persons considered corporate crime to insignificant during the 1970s, according to the Adler text?
A)Edwin Sutherland
B)Marvin Wolfgang
C)Ralph Nader
D)James Q. Wilson
19
Which of the following federal agencies would most likely be involved with the prosecution of environmental violations?
A)FBI
B)EPA
C)DEA
D)HUD
20
Which of the following provisions is not covered by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?
A)expansion of wire and mail fraud penalties
B)preservation of audit documents
C)expensing of stock options
D)certification of financial books by CEOs





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