Criminology Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
Criminology is the scientific study of crime, criminal behavior, and the criminal justice system. This course explores the causes of crime from sociological, psychological, and biological perspectives, examining patterns and trends as well as the impact of crime on individuals and society. Students will analyze theories of criminal behavior, evaluate methods of crime prevention and control, and review the functioning of law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Through case studies, research, and critical discussion, students gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of crime and the challenges faced by those working to address it.
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Profit Without Honor White Collar Crime and the Looting of America 6th Edition by Stephen M. Rosoff
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Victimization ________________ have recently started to collect data on white-collar crimes.
Answer: surveys
Q2) Which is another term for a Ponzi scheme?
A)Reverse investment
B)Pyramid
C)Triangle
D)Upside-down
Answer: B
Q3) The 1990s could be dubbed as:
A)the "betrayal decade."
B)the "greed decade."
C)the "scam decade."
D)the "great decade."
Answer: A
Q4) Barry Minkow regarded money generated from stock sales as money he could use to invest in other companies.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Crimes Against Consumers
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Q1) Telephone swindle
A)The covert substitution of low-quality counterfeit versions of brand-name consumer products.
B)Consists of three calls beginning with the front
C)Characterized by the use of the telephone to get consumers to send money to the promoter for worthless or overvalued products or services
D)Deceptive advertisements that make false or misleading claims
E)Used a telemarketing scheme to convince a public-school office manager to send him checks totaling $2 million for nothing
F)Bid-rigging where consumers lose the benefits of competition
G)Defined by the FTC as an alluring but insincere offer to sell a product or service which the advertiser does not intend or want to sell
H)The practice of taking extraordinary advantages of consumers because of the bias of the law, monopoly of the market, or because of contrived or real shortages
Answer: B
Q2) Consumer ________________ is a category of crimes against consumers. Answer: fraud
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Chapter 3: Unsafe Products
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Q1) Quackery robs consumers of _________ per year.
A)$10 million
B)$25 billion
C)$10 billion
D)$2 billion
Answer: B
Q2) Discuss the apparent reluctance of auto manufacturers to put consumer safety issues ahead of profits. Discuss some of the automobile or automobile-related defect cases.
Answer: The automakers' resistance to safety devices and defects in designs stems from the relative expense of safety testing and producing safer devices. Many times automobile manufacturers dismiss safety devices because they are too costly. Examples include General Motors' refusal to install safety glass windshields and Ford's awareness that the Pinto's fuel system ruptured easily in rear-end collisions.
Q3) Placement of the gas tank in the rear of Ford ________________ resulted in fiery crashes and deaths.
Answer: Pintos
Q4) Three forms of quackery are drugs, nutrition, and ________________. Answer: devices
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Chapter 4: Environmental Crime
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Q1) Identify the principle of the preemption doctrine and discuss implications for state prosecution of crimes in the workplace. What specific actions have states taken against environmental and workplace safety violators?
Q2) W.R Grace and its Cryovac Division that produced the Woburn Leukemia Cluster was guilty of performing all of the following activities <b>except</b>:
A)providing false information to the federal government about toxic disposal practices.
B)dumping toxic waste.
C)admitting to the dumping but denying the carcinogenic nature of the substances.
D)inadequate workplace safeguards.
Q3) In the deregulation era, which of the following entities took the lead in pursuing workplace violators?
A)Occupational Safety and Health Administration
B)Department of Labor
C)Federal Trade Commission
D)Individual states
Q4) The Occupational Safety and Health Act was passed in ________________.
Q5) Within one week in 1976, ________________ miners were killed at the Scotia Mine.
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Chapter 5: Institutional Corruption: Mass Media and Religion
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Q1) In his Ponzi scheme, what did Abraham Kennard use to lure his victims?
A)Loans to corporations headed by African Americans
B)Investment opportunities for blacks investment bankers
C)Promise of grants to black preachers
D)Insurance coverage for members of black churches
Q2) Dick Clark also testified before Congress in the payola scandal. He was never accused of wrongdoing, although all of the following were true <b>except that</b>:
A)he received 143 song copyrights as gifts.
B)he promoted Elvis Presley based on promise of future benefits.
C)singers involved with companies he owned got special places in his program.
D)said he may have promoted artists associated with his companies without realizing it.
Q3) Faith healer Peter Popoff used all of the following tactics in his schemes <b>except</b>:
A)bibles attached to balloons.
B)encouraging people to throw medications on stage.
C)holy shower caps.
D)faking injuries and healing himself.
Q4) Identify possible solutions of the problem of religious fraud.
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Chapter 6: Securities Fraud
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Q1) The term "criminogenic" means:
A)a culture conducive to crime.
B)a culture adverse to crime.
C)a culture dominated by street crime.
D)a culture of greed and egomania.
Q2) It took a national economic crisis and major recession to uncover the Bayou Hedge Fund scandal.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why is the economy considered the most important of all social institutions? How does security fraud affect the public's perception of the economy?
Q4) The term "paper entrepreneurism" places a great deal of emphasis on ________________.
Q5) Milken and Boesky entered into a parking arrangement that was beneficial to both of them. This arrangement involved:
A)shifting the loss of investment to the fake stock owner.
B)limiting Drexel exposure to loss.
C)a risky but legal arrangement.
D)disguising the true stock owner's identity to comply with regulations.
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Chapter 7: Corporate Fraud
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Q1) The whistleblower in the Enron case was:
A)Vinson Elkins.
B)J.Clifford Baxter.
C)Sherron Watkins.
D)A.Andersen.
Q2) Lay's paying back loans with questionable assets accomplished with of the following besides putting money in his bank account?
A)Avoided alerting regulators
B)Took advantage of his co-conspirators
C)Was a last-ditch effort to improve the company's bottom line
D)Avoided substantial tax consequences
Q3) WorldCom and Enron had all of the following in common <b>except</b>:
A)an executive compensation plan to die for.
B)a CFO who was implicated in the scandal simply for not doing his job.
C)a CEO who borrowed large sums from the company.
D)the same accountant.
Q4) The Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) is commonly known as ________________ Mae.
Q5) In 2000, Enron proudly claimed to have ________________ its revenue in just two years.
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Chapter 8: Fiduciary Fraud
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Q1) The traditional crime of embezzlement by low-level employees has been replaced by:
A)thefts masterminded by outsiders.
B)low-level employees engaging in stock fraud.
C)company owners building up companies and selling them to the highest bidder with consequent job loss.
D)mismanagement and looting by upper-level management.
Q2) The term ________________ refers to a location in a place other than the United States.
Q3) Steven Wymer testified before ________________ that broker-dealers had aided and abetted him in his schemes.
Q4) Nominee loans involve loans on real estate to borrowers that do not exist or are not in fact real borrowers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The Multiple Employer Welfare Agreement enables employers to meet welfare payment requirements for healthcare.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Crimes by the Government
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Q1) The acronym CREEP stands for:
A)Committee to RE-Elect the President
B)Corruption Reward Exploitation
C)Candidate RE-Election Project
D)Communist Rejection Executive Expulsion Project
Q2) Are there particular groups of people who were more likely to be used as human guinea pigs? Describe these vulnerable populations and why they are likely to be selected for experimentation.
Q3) The Tuskegee study group was selected based on genetic predisposition for certain behavior.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The CIA's abuse of power included of all of the following <b>except</b>:
A)spying on citizens inside the United States.
B)always staying just inside the law.
C)intercepting personal letters.
D)monitoring overseas activities of domestic dissidents.
Q5) Provide examples of how each of the following entities arguably abused its power: CIA, Defense Department, NSA, and the FBI.
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Chapter 10: Corruption of Public Officials
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Q1) "Little corruption" in the highest level of federal executive office has been:
A)rare.
B)occurring at regular intervals.
C)persistent.
D)nonexistent.
Q2) Hiring an unskilled relative as a policy analyst would be an example of public corruption.
A)True
B)False
Q3) More often than not, running afoul of the Internal Revenue Service puts elected officials on the fast track for prosecution.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following would be associated with grass-eaters?
A)Trying to help
B)Graft
C)Looking the other way
D)Aggressive corruption
Q5) Bribery or ____________ by individuals are examples of "little corruption."
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Q6) Identify the types of police corruption and give an example of each.
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Chapter 11: Medical Crime
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Q1) Fragmentation is where a number of charges can be made from what is usually one single less-expensive charge for services or procedures.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Ghost services are:
A)services designated so that maximum fees can be charged.
B)procedures where one service is divided into many services and billed accordingly.
C)services that never happened.
D)hospital room charges that are reasonable but other charges are very high.
Q3) Some argue that nursing home abuse occurs for all of the following reasons <b>except</b>:
A)the vulnerability of its patients.
B)unreasonable expectations of family members.
C)institutions are run for profit.
D)low pay for workers.
Q4) ________________ are up-front fees for services covered by Medicare supplemental policies.
Q5) ________________ services are services that never happened.
Q6) Nursing homes use psychotropic substances to keep ________________ cooperative.
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Chapter 12: Computer Crime
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Q1) WAREZ sites encourage which of the following activities?
A)Violent acts
B)Contact with terrorist cells
C)Copying of copyrighted programs
D)Buying cheap foreign computers
Q2) Identify and describe the four phases of computer viruses. Practically speaking, how do these stages work and what are the implications in the context of computer crime?
Q3) Michael Bloomberg was the subject of a computer crime. He was asked to pay a sum of money in return for being advised as to the perpetrator's methods that were used to invade his system. In street crime terms this would be extortion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sniffer programs look for ________________.
Q5) Coasting along looking for doors to open is a quality of cookbook hackers. A)True
B)False
Q6) The dark figure of crime is crime that is ________________.
Q7) Worms infect the ________________ computer.
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Chapter 13: Conclusions
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Q1) Wealth maximization theorists argue that white-collar criminals suffer collateral consequences that street criminals do not. Which one of the following consequences do white-collar criminals actually suffer?
A)None
B)Social stigmatization
C)Loss of wealth
D)Difficulty in securing jobs
Q2) The authors of the text focus on three basic levels of sociological analysis. These three levels include all of the following <b>except</b>:
A)societies.
B)institutions.
C)individuals.
D)organizations.
Q3) The richest ___________ % of Americans now own more wealth than the bottom 95%.
A)5
B)1
C)10
D)20
Q4) Embezzlement would be an example of ________________ crime.
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