Ethics in Criminal Justice Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Ethics in Criminal Justice explores the fundamental principles of ethical behavior and decision-making within the criminal justice system. The course examines the moral dilemmas faced by law enforcement officers, judges, lawyers, and correctional staff, focusing on issues such as discretion, corruption, use of force, racial profiling, and professional responsibility. Students will analyze case studies, review ethical theories, and discuss current challenges in upholding justice and integrity in various criminal justice roles, fostering critical thinking about the balance between law, morality, and individual rights.
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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) Industry-specific studies showed that although white-collar crime can occur in a variety of settings, it is concentrated in certain specific industries, such as:
A)securities, defense contractors, and savings and loans.
B)banking, the computer industry, and pharmaceuticals.
C)sports entertainment, the record industry, and gambling entertainment.
D)entertainment, banking, ranching, and farming.
Answer: A
Q2) When was the term "white-collar crime" was first used?
A)1909
B)1939
C)1959
D)1989
Answer: B
Q3) Charles Ponzi is one of the most influential white-collar criminals in American history.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Crimes Against Consumers
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Q1) The following companies have all been accused of fraud involving car problems and possible solutions <b>except</b>:
A)Ford.
B)Kmart.
C)Goodyear.
D)Firestone.
Answer: A
Q2) Pharmaceutical companies have been criticized by Congress for excessive and unreasonable profits.Drug company profits are more than ________ times the average profit of Fortune 500 companies.
A)three
B)two
C)five
D)four
Answer: A
Q3) Auto repairs make up the largest category of complaints received by Congressional panels.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Unsafe Products
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Q1) Placement of the gas tank in the rear of Ford ________________ resulted in fiery crashes and deaths.
Answer: Pintos
Q2) Discuss the human and social costs of quackery.Why are people vulnerable to quackery? What groups of people are more susceptible to this type of fraud?
Answer: Quackery can delay timely and appropriate treatment of medical conditions and cause severe illness or death. Some products or services are not only useless, but lethal. People are more vulnerable to quackery because it appeals to emotion rather than reason. Older adults are the most susceptible to quackery.
Q3) Corporate disregard for consumer safety has two elements:
A)profit motive and concern for overhead costs.
B)corporate officer salaries and cost of repairs.
C)resistance to safety devices and disregard for design defects.
D)consumer complaints and avoidance of lawsuits.
Answer: C
Q4) Three forms of quackery are drugs, nutrition, and ________________.
Answer: devices
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Chapter 4: Environmental Crime
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Q1) The case of Illinois v.O'Neil involving Film Recovery Systems was significant and trendsetting in the area of workplace safety because:
A)the company was forced to give up all of its yearly profit.
B)those individuals responsible for the death of the employee were forced to pay civil damages out of their own pockets.
C)the company was forced out of business as part of a settlement.
D)company officials were prosecuted criminally and sentenced to prison.
Q2) The EPA estimates that ________________ % of the hazardous waste produced in the U.S.each year is disposed of in an environmentally unsafe manner.
Q3) The EPA states that 75% of chemical wastes disposed were disposed of illegally in the golden age decade of environmental crime.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Paper use worldwide has decreased due to the use of electronic files and e-mail.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Beryllium is a strong lightweight metal used to encase ________________ weapons.
Q6) 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) Emile Durkheim regarded religion as the ___________ of society.
A)brain
B)conscience
C)heart
D)blood
Q2) In 1976, a New York grand jury indicted the former president of ___________ and another executive from the same company for engaging in payola.
A)CBS
B)Warner Brothers
C)Motown
D)Disney
Q3) In connection with "he Quiz Show Scandal most of those indicted and arrested were:
A)quiz show staffers.
B)program developers.
C)contestants.
D)media owners.
Q4) Emile Durkheim believed that religion is society's consciousness of itself.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Securities Fraud
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Q1) Front-running refers to managers buying stock for themselves after buying it for their funds.
A)True
B)False
Q2) High-yield bonds were used for actual or threatened leveraged buyouts of Fortune 500 companies. Negative consequences of these takeovers or attempted takeovers include all of the following except:
A)diversion of assets from company improvement to save the company.
B)bankruptcy avoidance.
C)downsizing.
D)layoffs.
Q3) All of the following major firms have been accused of securities fraud <b>except</b>:
A)Technical Equities Corporation.
B)Charles Schwab.
C)Prudential Securities.
D)E.F.Hutton.
Q4) How has the increase in financial information on the Internet changed the nature of securities crimes?
Q5) What is insider trading and why is it considered a crime? Who are the victims?
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Chapter 7: Corporate Fraud
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Q1) Enron seemed more interested in selling its own stock than in selling anything else.As a result, the Enron debacle can be characterized as a gigantic version of all of the following <b>except</b>:
A)insider trading scam.
B)pump and dump operation.
C)confidence game.
D)Ponzi scheme.
Q2) Post mortems of the Enron collapse have targeted the "Casablanca maneuver" by members of the Enron board of directors. What does this reference mean?
A)Distancing themselves by being unavailable for questioning
B)Secretly furnishing information to the government
C)Pointing an accusatory finger at everyone but themselves
D)Denying any knowledge of questionable activity despite damming evidence
Q3) Ken Lay stepped down as CEO from Enron to start a new company.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In 2000, Enron proudly claimed to have ________________ its revenue in just two years.
Q5) How do you think corporate fraud affects consumer confidence in the economy?
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Chapter 8: Fiduciary Fraud
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Q1) Investigate the reinsurance industry.Is it still a common practice in the United States? Have there been any recent insurance scandals that involved the practice of reinsurance?
Q2) The First Pension Corporation investments was an insider trading scam.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ______________ refers to loans conditioned on receipts of deposits. The loan then goes into default and deposits can be withdrawn.
A)Land flips
B)Reciprocal lending
C)Linked financing
D)Nominee loans
Q4) 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.
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Chapter 9: Crimes by the Government
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Q1) In the Tuskegee Study, study subjects failed to receive treatment for: A)AIDS.
B)heart disease.
C)cancer.
D)syphilis.
Q2) The Saturday Night Massacre was Nixon's firing of Justice Department personnel when they would not fire the special prosecutor.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The United States military used unethical medical practices including the following <b>except</b>:
A)injecting fluoride into towns' water supply.
B)feeding hepatitis to developmentally delayed infants.
C)using germ warfare experiments on communities.
D)exposing soldiers to mosquitoes carrying yellow fever.
Q4) The CIA has been involved in all of the following except:
A)a pivotal role in the Indonesian revolution that killed 500,000.
B)a coup that restored the Shah to power in Iran.
C)an election of Vincente Fox as president of Mexico.
D)an overthrow of the government in Ecuador.
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Chapter 10: Corruption of Public Officials
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Q1) Working in close proximity to illegal activities and an abundance of illicit profits represents which explanation of police misconduct?
A)Structural opportunity
B)Organization deviance
C)Lack of organizational controls
D)Structural choice
Q2) Prosecutions of corrupt federal legislators have been divided into three categories. They include all of the following <b>except</b>:
A)violations of election laws.
B)payroll fraud.
C)bribery.
D)theft.
Q3) What are possible explanations for police corruption?
Q4) Periodic corruption scandals have plagued ____________ major urban police department(s) in the United States.
A)few of the
B)every
C)some of the D)half of the
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Chapter 11: Medical Crime
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Q1) Bounty hunters in the medical fraud area are doctors who receive a fee for a particular diagnosis.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Upcoding is:
A)hospital room charges that are reasonable but other charges are very high.
B)a procedure where one service is divided into many services and billed accordingly.
C)services that never happened.
D)services designated so that maximum fees can be charged.
Q3) Medicare can be an easy mark for fraudulent equipment sales because it often fails to account for the legitimacy of suppliers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Equipment sales frauds work for all of the following reasons <b>except</b>:
A)doctors' signatures are forged.
B)Medicare does not review doctors' credentials.
C)patients pressure doctors to sign forms.
D)corrupt doctors.
Q5) Patient referral firms are known as ________________.
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Chapter 12: Computer Crime
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Q1) The acronym EFT stands for:
A)east fun target.
B)ending fund target.
C)earned from trust.
D)electronic funds transfer.
Q2) Computers can be used to commit all of the following kinds of espionage <b>except</b>: A)social.
B)international.
C)political.
D)industrial.
Q3) Describe the three state process defined by Cressey that characterized typical embezzlers.
Q4) Hackers first targeted:
A)the stock exchange.
B)the government.
C)schools.
D)banks.
Q5) Sniffer programs look for ________________.
Q6) The fastest-spreading virus is a variation of the________________ virus.
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Chapter 13: Conclusions
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Q1) One proposal to counter white-collar crime is for "excessive transparency." This would require disclosure of executive dealings with competitor companies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Commentators have suggested that white-collar crime flourishes because of the ___________ reaction of law enforcement.
A)over-
B)dramatic
C)nonexistent
D)tepid
Q3) Embezzlement would be an example of a corporate crime.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is meant by the term "psychopathic wealth"? How does it pertain to white-collar crime?
Q5) Discuss the three categories concerning the serious effect of white-collar crime. Provide examples of the effects in each category.
Q6) Why does white-collar crime often appear to be a rational course of action?
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