Law and Social Control Study Guide Questions
Course Introduction
Law and Social Control explores the relationship between legal systems and mechanisms of social regulation within societies. The course examines how laws are created, enforced, and interpreted, serving both as instruments for maintaining order and as reflections of cultural values and power structures. Students will analyze the interplay between formal legal institutions such as courts, police, and legislatures and informal modes of control, including norms, community practices, and social pressure. The course also addresses how social inequalities, group dynamics, and political forces influence the development and application of laws, drawing on historical and contemporary examples to illustrate these themes.
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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) Which of the books listed below was not an early 20 -century exposé of political or business corruption?
A) Steffens' The Shame of the Cities
B) Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company
C) Sinclair's The Jungle
D) Woodward and Bernstein's All The President's Men
Answer: D
Q2) The contemporary era of investigative journalism was primarily inspired by:
A) the Cuban Missile Crisis
B) the AIDS plague
C) the Watergate Affair
D) Abscam
Answer: C
Q3) The Better Business Bureau functions as an aggressive investigator of business wrongdoing.
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) Methodological problems with seriousness of crime studies include all but which of the following?
A) Use of different measures of wrongdoing
B) Use of different types of seriousness scales
C) Over-reporting of fraud
D) Use of different sampling techniques
Answer: C
Q2) The pattern of media coverage of antitrust cases at different points in time calls for what type of research method?
A) Secondary data analysis
B) Archival data analysis
C) Content analysis
D) Journalistic analysis
Answer: C
Q3) The physical costs of white collar crime, by any measure, are far more limited than such costs associated with conventional crime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Corporate Crime
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Q1) There is much evidence to support the proposition that far more employees have been killed and maimed as a consequence of the actions of employers than the reverse.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In 2006, it was found that oil and gas companies extracting some $60 billion worth of these fuels were cheating American taxpayers by paying tens of millions less in government royalties than they should have paid.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The domination of a market by several large corporations is known as a(n):
A) monopoly
B) oligopoly
C) conglomerate
D) transnational
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Occupational Crime and Avocational Crime
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Q1) Susanne Karstedt and Stephen Farrall make the point that politicians promote tough criminal justice policies on behalf of a "law abiding majority," many of whose members never violate any laws.
A)True
B)False
Q2) It has been definitively established that academics are more ethical and honest than other professionals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Employee crime may be motivated by non-economic factors.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The text characterizes employee crime as the most costly of all forms of white collar crime.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Sutherland regarded the medical profession as less criminal than other professions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Governmental Crime: State Crime and Political
White Collar Crime
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Q1) According to the text, the United States has never sponsored or provided support for activities which could be defined as terrorist.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The key aspect of the notion of a repressive state is the systematic deprivation of fundamental human rights.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Political Action Committees (PACs) were set up to keep corporations from funneling campaign donations to political candidates.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Nonfeasance is best defined as:
A) doing something you are prohibited from doing
B) failing to do something you are required to do
C) performing a permissible act in an improper manner
D) not doing something you are prohibited from doing
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Chapter 6: State-Corporate Crime, Crimes of Globalization, and Finance Crime
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Q1) Crimes of globalization are typically the consequence of policy decisions by high-level officials who are attempting to realize positive outcomes.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following global crimes was partially financed by the World Bank?
A) CIA involvement in Latin America
B) The Great Whale Dam Project in Quebec
C) The overthrowing of Chile's democratically elected president Salvador Allende
D) The Dam at Pak Moon in Thailand
Q3) State-corporate crime is made possible by the profound interdependence of states and corporations in the modern world.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Defendants in the insider trading cases pursued by the SEC and the U.S. Department of Justice in the 1980s were often allowed to settle if they would admit guilt.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Enterprise Crime, Contrepreneurial Crime, and Technocrime
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Q1) Charitable trusts set up by wealthy individuals may enrich administrators more than the charitable cause.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Prosecutions for computer crime have increased somewhat in recent years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not described in the text as being a commonly occurring problem in the art market?
A) Forgeries
B) False claims about the history of ownership
C) Misrepresentation of the actual artist
D) Museum ownership of stolen art and antiquities
Q4) The cosmetics industry is especially well-represented among pyramid schemes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) People with poor credit histories are less vulnerable to fraud than other groups.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Explaining White Collar Crime: Theories and Accounts
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Q1) Postmodernist criminology embraces the idea that the meaning of white collar crime is something which is very settled and fixed.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An increasingly common view in the social sciences today is that human behavior reflects a mixture of rational choice, emotional input, and value commitments.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Studies have consistently found that larger corporate size and increased external profit pressure leads to illegality.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There are many studies of the biological make-up of white collar offenders. A)True
B)False
Q5) The liquor industry and the automobile industry are cited as industries with conditions strongly constraining or limiting illegal activity.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 9: Law and the Social Control of White Collar
Crime
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Q1) Traditionally, the mechanisms of social control have focused on which of the following?
A) Individuals
B) Groups
C) Organizations
D) Societies
Q2) Since its implementation, the RICO law has been used most frequently against individuals and groups who do not fit the conventional image of organized criminals.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Adam Smith, the premier philosopher of capitalism, took the position that:
A) the free market and not the legal system is the best and most efficient means for preventing or minimizing harmful conduct by businesses
B) the criminal law should be used to impose limitations on business competition
C) since businessmen do no harm to consumers, there is no reason to formulate laws directed at their activities
D) laws directed at business activity will do more harm to the most powerful businessmen
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Chapter 10: Policing and Regulating White Collar Crime
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Q1) Major financial firms have established in-house policing units in very few cases.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Historically, white collar crime has not been a principal focus of concern for law enforcement agencies.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following was the first federal regulatory agency specifically directed toward overseeing potentially harmful corporate activity?
A) Environmental Protection Agency
B) Interstate Commerce Commission
C) Security and Exchange Commission
D) Occupational Safety and Hazards Agency
Q4) The American Bar Association has aggressively promoted rules calling for lawyers to blow the whistle on clients engaged in fraudulent conduct.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: Prosecuting, Defending, and Adjudicating White Collar Crime
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Q1) Formal charging of a client is more likely to be regarded as a failure in white collar than in conventional crime cases.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to a major study of white collar crime defense work, compared with conventional crime defense, much earlier involvement in the case is the norm.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The problem of jury competence appears to be:
A) less pronounced in white collar crime cases than in conventional crime cases
B) more pronounced in white collar crime cases than in conventional crime cases
C) less of a problem in cases involving high level frauds than low level frauds
D) more pronounced when jurors are college educated than when they have no college education
Q4) The local prosecution of white collar crime cases is based on a number of factors, but not on the level of resources available to the prosecutor.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Responding to the Challenge of White Collar Crime
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Q1) Which of the following is not an argument that has been made in favor of incarcerating white collar offenders?
A) White collar crime involves a high level of intent
B) The prospect of prison is likely to be a deterrent
C) The concept of equal treatment under law requires it
D) Incarceration is essential for rehabilitation
Q2) Corporate codes of ethics mainly stress the moral responsibilities of corporations to citizens, consumers, and employees.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following does not apply to the corporate social responsibility movement?
A) Programs may involve the voluntary adoption of ethical codes
B) Programs may involve submission to external auditing of corporate practices
C) Sometimes seen as principally a public relations gambit by corporations
D) Has been shown to be extremely effective after systematic evaluation over many years
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