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Illegal buying of stock in a company on the basis of information provided by someone who has a fiduciary interest in the company is known as _______.

A) ​insider trading
B) ​exploitation
C) ​peddling
D) ​chiseling

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Question 22

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Pharmacists have been known to alter prescriptions or substitute low-cost generic drugs for more expensive name brands. This is an example of which category of white-collar crime?

A) Professional chiseling
B) Churning
C) Employee fraud
D) Influence peddling

E) All of the above
F) A) and C)

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Question 23

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Which of the following is not true about auto thefts and automobiles?

Economic crimes were even punished 3,000 years ago in the Code of Hammurabi.

Professionals who make a living by passing bad checks are known as _____________________​.

Offenders who do not define themselves by a criminal role are called ______.

Martha is upset at Catherine over the dinner bill the night before. Martha believes Catherine should have split the bill but she failed to pay any portion. Martha and Catherine work together at a local telemarketing center and Martha sneaks to Catherine's desk to take $20 from her purse. In terms of larcenies, this would be ______.

______________ involves using illegal means to cheat an organization, its consumers, or both, on a regular basis.

The Clean Water Act of 1972 maintains goals and standards for the United States to ensure water quality and purity.

To encourage the arrest of shoplifters, a number of states have passed ___________________ designed to offer retailers and their employees some protection from lawsuits stemming from improper or false arrests of suspected shoplifters.

Methods of controlling white-collar crime that rely on the punishment of individual offenders to deter other would-be violators are known as _________________________​.

Which of the following is true in regard to recent research by the National White Collar Crime Center?

Forcing victims to pay for services or contracts to which they have a clear right is called ________________.​

Under English common law, _____________ was defined as the taking of another person's property without their permission or consent.

The number of state-funded technical assistance offices to help local prosecutors has decreased significantly with less than 20 states offering such services.

Amateur shoplifter who does not self-identify as a thief but who systematically steals merchandise for personal use.

In Lemert's well-known study on check fraud, he found that amateurs account for less than 10 percent of check fraud, with the majority highly trained and highly experienced forgers.

Amateur forgers who case bad checks because of some financial crisis but have little identification with a criminal subculture are referred to as __________________ forgers.

The NCVS has found that nearly a million more burglaries occur each year than reported by the UCR.

Theft of a small amount of money or property, punished as a misdemeanor is known as _____________________.