This type of crime involves illegal activities of people and institutions whose acknowledged purpose is profit through legitimate business transactions.
What is white-collar crime?
100
This is the minimum dollar amount necessary before fraud exists in the crime of tax evasion.
What is none?
100
This is a scam in which an identity thief creates emails that look legitimate but are designed to gain access to a person's personal information.
What is a phishing scheme?
100
This type of crime is a conspiratorial activity with economic gain as its primary goal.
What is organized crime?
100
Media representations of crime focus on this type of crime which is by far the least common.
What is violent crime?
200
Travis Hirschi and Michael Gottfredson claim white-collar crime is relatively rare because businesses tend to hire people with this trait.
What is self control?
200
In this scheme, the fraudster focuses on attracting new money to make promised payments to earlier-stage investors and to use for personal expenses instead of engaging in any legitimate investment activity.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
200
Cybervandals are often motivated by this.
What is revenge?
200
It is a common misconception that organized crime is synonymous with this term.
What is the Mafia?
200
This term refers to the effect criminal justice television shows have on juries' expectations regarding evidence in court.
What is the CSI Effect?
300
This term refers to employees stealing company property.
What is pilferage?
300
Corporate crime is synonymous with this term and involves illegal business practices such as restraint of trade.
What is organizational crime?
300
This term refers to pirated software that results from an individual illegally obtains software and then "cracks" or "rips" it and posts it on the internet for others to use.
What is "warez?"
300
The aging of current reigning family heads, the lack of skill of the younger generation, active government enforcement, and changing values in US society have resulted in this.
What is the erosion of Mafia power?
300
Research on this phenomenon indicates that the media probably shapes rather than creates criminal behavior.
What is copycat crime?
400
These are white-collar crimes which result in injury or death.
What are Red-collar crimes?
400
This practice refers to professionals using their position of expertise to charge more for a product or service than it is worth.
What is professional chiseling?
400
This is the difference between worms and viruses.
What is that worms self-replicate while viruses require action from the user?
400
This interweaving is an important change in organized crime.
What is the interweaving of ethnic groups into the traditional structure?
400
The FBI states that the racial makeup of serial killers matches the racial makeup of this group.
What is the general population?
500
According to this view, some business organizations promote white-collar criminality.
What is the corporate culture view?
500
This is what white-collar, cyber, and organized crime have in common.
What is using the legal marketplace to commit illegal acts?
500
An example of this cyberfraud is when an individual "sells" a product online, keeps the money, and does not deliver the product.
What is etailing fraud?
500
This theory is the view that organized crime is a direct offshoot of a criminal society that originated in Italy and Sicily.
What is alien conspiracy theory?
500
These individuals are the ones MOST effected by media coverage of crime.
Who are those with little to no experience with crime?