White Collar Crime Test 1 (Ch. 1-4) Questions With
Complete Solutions
________ coined the term "white-collar crime." Correct
Answers Edwin Sutherland
________ has become the most rapidly increasing cause of
death in America. Correct Answers respiratory disease
________ of scams using spam mailings on the Internet are
really Ponzi schemes. Correct Answers 80%
"Cheating on Tests" refers to: Correct Answers scientific
researchers falsifying results
A boiler room might be characterized by which of the
following? Correct Answers telephones
A book published in 1907, Sin and Society, identified a pillar of
society-paragon of virtue who in reality was interested only in
personal gain using any means as a(n) ________. Correct
Answers criminaloid
A criticism of the caveat emptor doctrine is: Correct Answers
latent defects
A Ponzi scheme attempts to cheat people by Correct Answers
paying original investors with money from new investors
,A practice known as dumping involves: Correct Answers
selling dangerous products in foreign countries after a domestic
ban
A recent decade was known as the golden age of environmental
crime. Which President's administration is associated with an
anti-regulation mindset during the same decade? Correct
Answers Reagan
A theory that forces social scientists to reconsider accepted
theories is a ________ theory Correct Answers debunking
A victim of a fraud is known as a mark because: Correct
Answers he/she could fall for future scams
AAMCO used all of the following techniques to take advantage
of customers EXCEPT: Correct Answers spray-painting
According to Dudley LeBlanc, his product Hadacol, though not
much good for others, was good for how much to him in one
year? Correct Answers five and a half million dollars
According to FBI figures the annual cost of bank robberies is
approximately $35 million, which is what percent of how much
it took to bail out Lincoln Savings and Loan? Correct Answers
1%
According to the EPA what percent of chemical wastes were
disposed of illegally in the golden age decade of environmental
crime? Correct Answers 90
, All of the following may have contributed to the initial
examination of white-collar crime EXCEPT Correct Answers
agricultural society values
Allied Chemical Corporation, developer of Kepone, a highly
toxic pesticide, committed all of the following acts in connection
with manufacturing or in an effort to avoid liability for the
health damage caused by the chemical EXCEPT: Correct
Answers it slowed down but did not stop production to
investigate complaints
American Family is half-owned by which media giant? Correct
Answers Time Warner
American Family Publishers uses what two individuals as front
men for its sweepstakes promotions? Correct Answers Ed
McMahon and Dick Clark
American Family used all of following techniques to trick
entrants EXCEPT: Correct Answers free merchandise
An assistant administrator in what federal agency would
eventually go to prison for perjury? Her agenda included
changing the perception of Love Canal from dangerous to
benign, obtaining data that 50 of the most dangerous sites were
benign and proving that industries today were not dangerous to
public health. Correct Answers Environmental Protection
Agency
An especially alarming characteristic of white-collar crime
which ironically is also an explanation of low public interest in
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