WCC Exam 1 Review 131 Questions with Verified Answers,100% CORRECT
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WCC Exam 1 Review 131 Questions with Verified Answers
What are the types of white collar crime? - CORRECT ANSWER financial fraud, healthcare fraud, public corruption, fraud and swindles, organized crime, espionage, government fraud, mortgage fraud
characteristics of white collar crime - CORRE...
WCC Exam 1 Review 131 Questions with Verified Answers
What are the types of white collar crime? - CORRECT ANSWER financial fraud,
healthcare fraud, public corruption, fraud and swindles, organized crime,
espionage, government fraud, mortgage fraud
characteristics of white collar crime - CORRECT ANSWER national or international
scope, involve large number of victims, have organizations as victims, follow
demonstrated patterns, committed for more than a year, committed in groups,
financially motivated, nonviolent
characteristics of offenders - CORRECT ANSWER college educated, white males,
older, have a job, commit fewer offenses, start their criminal careers later in life
who founded the term of white collar crime - CORRECT ANSWER Edwin
Sutherland in 1939
what is the definition Sutherland gave for white collar crime - CORRECT ANSWER
a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the
course of his occupation (focus is on the person and what job he has)
key features of Sutherland's definition - CORRECT ANSWER respectability, high
social status, course of one's occupation
attention of sutherland's white collar crime definition - CORRECT ANSWER
committed by individuals of all social and economic classes
emphasis of sutherlands definition for wcc - CORRECT ANSWER emphasis on
occupational status of offender
criticisms of sutherlands definition for wcc - CORRECT ANSWER conceptual
ambiguity, empirical ambiguity, legal ambiguity, methodical ambiguity, policy
ambiguity
, conceptual ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWER definition was too unclear
empirical ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWER sutherlands wcc definition didn't address
the reality that the middle class were the ones more likely to commit the crimes
not the upper class
legal ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWER sutherlands definition of wcc didn't specify
specific criminal offenses
methodical ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWER sutherlands definition focused
specifically on upper class
policy ambiguity - CORRECT ANSWER sutherlands definition caused confusion
with researchers and practitioners when developing policy
Why do people commit crimes? - CORRECT ANSWER sutherland's differential
association (criminals learn criminal behaviors through association with others
who are involved in similar crime
what did clinard and quinnery do in 1973 - CORRECT ANSWER they separated
white collar crime into corporate and occupational crimes
corporate crime - CORRECT ANSWER committed by or on behalf of the
organization for profit or enhancement of the organization; doing something to
save the organization money
what are some examples of corporate crime - CORRECT ANSWER overcharging
customers, false advertising, environmental crime
occupational crimes - CORRECT ANSWER committed by person in an occupational
setting for purely personal gain and to the detriment of the organization
what is an example of an occupational crime - CORRECT ANSWER bank fraud
how did the definition of wcc change - CORRECT ANSWER definition went from
offender based (Sutherland) to offense based (today). sutherlands definition
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