Ethics in Criminal Justice Exam Solutions
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational ethical principles and dilemmas inherent in the criminal justice system, including law enforcement, the courts, and corrections. Students will examine topics such as moral reasoning, integrity, discretion, use of force, racial profiling, and the balance between public safety and individual rights. Through case studies, theoretical frameworks, and real-world applications, the course encourages critical thinking about personal and professional responsibility, the role of policy and procedure, and the impact of ethical decision-making on justice and society.
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Trusted Criminals White Collar Crime In Contemporary Society 4th Edition by David O. Friedrichs
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Chapter 1: The Discovery of White Collar Crime
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Q1) Nobody before E.H.Sutherland had recognized that the rich and the affluent commit serious crimes in connection with their business activity.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A public interest movement is most likely to emerge during an economically depressed period.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) It is more difficult to report white collar crimes effectively on television than conventional crimes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) White collar crime, as a rule, is more visible than conventional crime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Studying White Collar Crime and Assessing Its Cost
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Q1) Which of the following is not a problem when relying upon regulatory agency data?
A) The agencies have a good deal of discretionary leeway in defining and responding to offenses
B) The offenses dealt with by the agencies are more typically conventional rather than white collar.
C) Corporations and organizations rather than individuals tend to be the primary focus of regulatory agencies
D) The agencies are not organized to track offenders over time
Answer: B
Q2) In more recent years the unit of analysis in the study of white collar crime has increasingly shifted from the organization to the individual.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) It is possible for consumer fraud to be overreported as well as underreported. A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Corporate Crime
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Q1) Safety features were not a priority of auto manufacturers for much of their history primarily because:
A) studies showed that the safety features were too crude to do any good
B) polls revealed that the public was indifferent to auto safety
C) auto executives did not care if people were injured or killed in auto accidents
D) safety features were not regarded as enhancing sales and profit potential for automobiles
Answer: D
Q2) The primary concern with the Nestle Corporation's marketing of infant formula in Third World countries is that:
A) the infant formula is exorbitantly priced
B) Nestle's infant formula competes unfairly against domestic infant formula brands
C) mothers in these countries do not have the knowledge, means or conditions to use it safely
D) a very inferior grade of infant formula is marketed
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: Occupational Crime and Avocational Crime
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Q1) In some cases, law firms become aware that their client is engaging in fraudulent activity, but do nothing because the client is a source of income.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The two major types of legal crime are:
A) fraud and theft
B) fraud and intrusion
C) fraud and collusion
D) fraud and money laundering
Q3) The conditions conducive to employee theft vary quite widely between occupations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The major types of avocational white collar crime are income tax evasion and insurance fraud.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Governmental Crime: State Crime and Political
White Collar Crime
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Q1) Political Action Committees (PACs) were set up to keep corporations from funneling campaign donations to political candidates.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The concept of political crime has been most typically associated with crimes directed against the state, rather than on behalf of it.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The American political leadership has only occasionally accepted judgments of an international judiciary concerning its military actions.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In the U.S., state negligence is least likely to be alleged in connection with:
A) black infant mortality
B) deaths by drowning
C) AIDS-related deaths
D) homelessness
Q5) Much of the harm caused by governments escapes formal classification as crime. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: State-Corporate Crime, Crimes of Globalization, and Finance Crime
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Q1) The five U.S.Senators, among them John McCain, who intervened with federal regulators on behalf of Keating and Lincoln S & L: A) admitted that they accepted cash bribes from Keating B) were recipients of large campaign contributions from Keating C) had past or pending direct business ties with Keating D) had no contact or dealings with Keating but were personally opposed to federal regulatory activities
Q2) The World Bank, set up to aid developing nations, has criticized other international financial institutions for their complicity in crimes of globalization.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Only German corporations assisted the German Nazi government in their genocidal efforts.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The BCCI bank was founded as the first multinational Third World bank. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Enterprise Crime, Contrepreneurial Crime, and Technocrime
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Q1) Which of the following types of professional crime intersects most fully with white collar crime?
A) Picking pockets
B) Pennyweighting
C) Hotel burglaries
D) The "big con"
Q2) Fraudulent activity cannot always be easily classified as a single type of crime.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How does syndicated crime become interrelated with governmental crime? What are some of the principal factors that lead to the syndicated crime infiltration of government agencies, and what are some of the consequences of such infiltration? What are some of the most recent forms of syndicated crime involvement with government agencies?
Q4) Organized crime involvement in software and film piracy is easy to document conclusively.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts
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Q1) Accounts play a significant role in white collar offenses in that they take place beforehand and allow offenders to rationalize their acts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which phrase best applies to institutional anomie theory?
A) Contends that the particular form of illegal conduct is significantly a function of the structure of opportunity
B) Sets forth the core theme that competition for limited resources in a society, such as American society that puts such central emphasis upon the Goal of individual monetary success, will promote crime
C) Illegal behavior arises as a means of combating the strain caused by an enduring situation in a society in which a generalized goal of material Success is promoted, but the means to achieve such success legitimately Are not equally distributed
D) A social psychological syndrome of experiencing negative emotions arising from strains (or negative dimensions) in one's environment
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Chapter 9: Law and the Social Control of White Collar Crime
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Q1) Concern with commercial misconduct began only in the 19 century, with the advent of industrialization and capitalism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Adam Smith's original vision of a capitalist society called for the development of large, powerful trusts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The vulnerability of businesses to government regulation seems to be largely independent of the state of the economy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) As a society becomes larger, more complex and more heterogeneous, the historical tendency is to rely increasingly upon formal laws in response to white collar crime.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Policing and Regulating White Collar Crime
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Q1) Federal investigative agencies are supposed to bring the most serious white collar crime cases, where criminal prosecution is warranted, to the attention of the U.S. Department of Justice or one of the U.S.attorneys.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission), proposed and promoted by pro-business Republicans, is geared toward protecting businesses from consumer lawsuits.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Inspectors General:
A) are the government agents in charge of inspecting food
B) are attached to a variety of government departments and agencies, and conduct internal audits and investigations
C) are in charge of insuring that all government transportation vehicles are safe
D) are traditional agents of the English government, but are unknown in the American system of government
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Chapter 11: Prosecuting, Defending, and Adjudicating White Collar Crime
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Q1) According to the text, judges are uniformly more lenient with convicted white collar crime defendants than with convicted conventional crime defendants.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What role have civil suits played in the response to white collar crime, and what are the major recent trends pertaining to such suits? Identify some of the principal arguments on behalf of class action suits and collateral civil suits.What are some of their potential disadvantages?
Q3) The $100 million fine imposed on the Exxon corporation in connection with the Valdez oil spill, along with the over $1 billion civil settlement Exxon was also required to pay, had a ruinous impact on the corporation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act doubled the maximum sentence for some forms of corporate fraud.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The prosecution of antitrust cases has been highly selective.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Responding to the Challenge of White Collar Crime
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Q1) White collar crime is typically viewed as a highly instrumental crime.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Research on the effectiveness of moral appeals in promoting taxpayer compliance has produced somewhat contradictory findings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following penal objectives is not fulfilled by occupational disqualification?
A) Punishment
B) Deterrence
C) Incapacitation
D) Rehabilitation
Q4) In the text, Box 12.8 details some of the initiatives taken against white collar crime by Scandinavian countries.What are some of the actions these countries have taken? Do you think their initiatives are worthwhile? Could the United States learn from these countries to develop more proactive measures to fight white collar crime? Lastly, what is the United States currently doing to proactively fight white collar crime and what do you think still needs to be done?
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