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Because drug cartels in countries like Columbia move their products to other areas like Mexico and the United States, what kind of crime are they committing?

Question 1 options:

Occupational Personal Crime


corporate crime


public order crime


transnational organizational crime

Question 2 (1 point)
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Which activity is NOT a common source of income for organized crime?

Question 2 options:

pilferage


loan sharking


gambling


prostitution

Question 3 (1 point)
How did companies like Standard Oil contribute to the need for antitrust laws?

Question 3 options:

Standard Oil was notorious for falsely advertising its product.


Standard Oil prevented other companies from competing with them.


Standard Oil knowingly sold dangerous or defective products.


Standard Oil embezzled government funds to finance their building.

Question 4 (1 point)
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Illegal drug use has increased since the 1970s in the United States.

Question 4 options:

True


False

Question 5 (1 point)
In the late 1980s several savings and loan companies folded, costing those who had invested their retirement funds thousands of dollars. Upon investigation, it was found that representatives of the companies were taking funds that were supposed to be owned by investors and depositing them into their own bank accounts. This was usually a crime committed by two or three top executives of the company. What crime would these men MOST likely be found guilty of?

Question 5 options:

pilfering


embezzlement


loan sharking


gambling

Question 6 (1 point)
According to some, what is the best way to control organized crime?

Question 6 options:

Arrest the "bosses."


Reduce the demand for the goods and services that it provides.


Make more of their activities illegal.


Threaten organized crime members with death.

Question 7 (1 point)
When Sutherland first coined the term 'white-collar crime' he said that there were two qualifications for a crime to be classified as white-collar. The first is that the perpetrator must be of "high social status." What was the second qualification?

Question 7 options:

The victim had to be of high social status as well.


The crime had to be nonviolent.


The crime had to be related to the person's occupation.


The crime had to be premeditated.

Question 8 (1 point)
All the gas station owners on an island agree to charge the same price. In this way, they control the price of gas and consumers have no choice but to pay the price they set. What kind of crime are these companies committing?

Question 8 options:

false advertising


restraint of trade


price fixing


fraud

Question 9 (1 point)
A protein powder company has recently come out with a new formula. On their labels, they describe how much muscle is built with every shake made with it. Testing by an independent lab shows that there is nothing in the powder that would build muscle. What kind of crime is this company committing?

Question 9 options:

false advertising


selling recalled product


price fixing


restraint of trade

Question 10 (1 point)
A therapist bills the insurance company for a session in which the patient did not show up. According to Marshall Clinard and Richard Quinney, what kind of crime is this?

Question 10 options:

occupational crime


organizational crime


corporate crime


personal crime

Question 11 (1 point)
What is the lending of money at interest rates higher than the legal limits called?

Question 11 options:

banking


loan sharking


price fixing


pilferage

Question 12 (1 point)
One of the hallmarks of occupational crime is its focus on the individual.

Question 12 options:

True


False

Question 13 (1 point)
After World War II ended, it was uncovered that IBM had spent the war years selling special equipment to Nazi Germany. According to Sutherland's research, what was MOST likely the motive for this continued relationship, even though it was illegal?

Question 13 options:

The executives at IBM supported the idea of the Nazis.


The Nazis threatened to expose secrets about IBM as a company.


IBM was making a huge amount of money from the deal.


IBM wanted to join the fight against the Allied Forces.

Question 14 (1 point)
Investigators find that the Chief Financial Officer of a large banking company has taken $4 million belonging to investors to buy a house on a tropical island. What classification would BEST describe this crime?

Question 14 options:

organizational crime


elite deviance


corporate crime


price gouging

Question 15 (1 point)
Which would be an example of a State Authority Occupational Crime?

Question 15 options:

A city planner allows a construction project to move forward in exchange for stock in the company.


An auto manufacturer knows its mufflers emit poisonous gas but do not change them.


An attorney bills their client for six hours when they were only in court for one.


A bank manager has customers make out checks to them directly for services rendered.