Practice Quiz Chapter 07

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. American sociologist ________ was the first American scholar to draw attention to white-collar crime.

a) Edwin Sutherland correct incorrect

b) Robert Merton correct incorrect

c) Albert Cohen correct incorrect

d) None of the above correct incorrect

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. ________ is/are the most likely to become victims of corporate crime.

a) Consumers correct incorrect

b) Workers correct incorrect

c) The general public correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. ________ is the study of environmental damage, caused by human activity, viewed through a criminological lens.

a) Green criminology correct incorrect

b) Environmental criminology correct incorrect

c) Ecological criminology correct incorrect

d) Earth Criminology correct incorrect

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. In ________, Ontario seven people died as a result of E. coli-contaminated drinking water.

a) Bellville correct incorrect

b) Walkerton correct incorrect

c) Owen Sound correct incorrect

d) Bracebridge correct incorrect

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. ________ occurs when an employee uses information not available to the public to gain a personal advantage over others in the buying and selling of stocks.

a) Price fixing correct incorrect

b) Stock tipping correct incorrect

c) Insider trading correct incorrect

d) Mail fraud correct incorrect

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. Approximately 200 workers from ________ lost their lives between the 1930s and the 1970s as a result of industrial disease associated with working in a fluorspar mine.

a) Newfoundland correct incorrect

b) Prince Edward Island correct incorrect

c) Quebec correct incorrect

d) British Columbia correct incorrect

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. When considering the causes of white-collar crime at the micro level, Shover and Wright (2001) consider three factors: ________.

a) the number of workers in an organization, age of offender, and gender of offender correct incorrect

b) criminal opportunities, white-collar decision making, and the characteristics of white-collar offenders correct incorrect

c) the age of the organization, criminal opportunities, and white-collar decision making correct incorrect

d) None of the above correct incorrect

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. According to research by Daly (1989), ________ are the most likely to partake in credit card and postal crime.

a) those under the age of 25 correct incorrect

b) males correct incorrect

c) females correct incorrect

d) immigrant workers correct incorrect

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. The 1970 ________, an example of political crime, led to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoking the War Measures Act.

a) Black Panther Crisis correct incorrect

b) Oil Crisis correct incorrect

c) October Crisis correct incorrect

d) Drug Crisis correct incorrect

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. The text suggests that "bad-apple"police officers who break the law on the job are a result of ________.

a) the existence of deviant police subcultures correct incorrect

b) poor recruiting correct incorrect

c) individual shortcomings of a small number of police officers correct incorrect

d) the jobs pressures of being a police officer correct incorrect

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. In 2001, ________ was sentenced to five months in prison for insider trading.

a) Oprah Winfrey correct incorrect

b) Martha Stewart correct incorrect

c) Drew Barrymore correct incorrect

d) Madonna correct incorrect

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. Most cases of insider trading that take place in Canada result in ________.

a) a settlement with a provincial regulator correct incorrect

b) a hefty fine and two years probation correct incorrect

c) prison time correct incorrect

d) None of the above correct incorrect

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. In May 2000, seven people died and 2,300 became ill after ________ in Walkerton, Ontario, a town of just under 5,000 people about 250 kilometres northwest of Toronto.

a) eating tainted tuna correct incorrect

b) a train derailment released toxic fumes into the environment correct incorrect

c) drinking E. coli- contaminated water correct incorrect

d) mercury was found in local fresh water fish correct incorrect

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. ________ programmed its diesel engines to control emissions only when the vehicles were being tested in labs, not when they were actually on the road?

a) Lamborghini correct incorrect

b) Ferrari correct incorrect

c) Mercedes-Benz correct incorrect

d) None of the above correct incorrect

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. Crimes committed against the state and crimes committed by the state is usually referred to as ________.

a) political crime correct incorrect

b) corporate crime correct incorrect

c) treason correct incorrect

d) duplicity correct incorrect