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Question 1:

American sociologist ________ was the first American scholar to draw attention to white-collar crime.
a) Edwin Sutherland
b) Robert Merton
c) Albert Cohen
d) None of the above

Question 2:

________ is/are the most likely to become victims of corporate crime.
a) Consumers
b) Workers
c) The general public
d) All of the above

Question 3:

________ is the study of environmental damage, caused by human activity, viewed through a criminological lens.
a) Green criminology
b) Environmental criminology
c) Ecological criminology
d) Earth Criminology

Question 4:

In ________, Ontario seven people died as a result of E. coli-contaminated drinking water.
a) Bellville
b) Walkerton
c) Owen Sound
d) Bracebridge

Question 5:

________ 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
b) Stock tipping
c) Insider trading
d) Mail fraud

Question 6:

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
b) Prince Edward Island
c) Quebec
d) British Columbia

Question 7:

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
b) criminal opportunities, white-collar decision making, and the characteristics of white-collar offenders
c) the age of the organization, criminal opportunities, and white-collar decision making
d) None of the above

Question 8:

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
b) males
c) females
d) immigrant workers

Question 9:

The 1970 ________, an example of political crime, led to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoking the War Measures Act.
a) Black Panther Crisis
b) Oil Crisis
c) October Crisis
d) Drug Crisis

Question 10:

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
b) poor recruiting
c) individual shortcomings of a small number of police officers
d) the jobs pressures of being a police officer

Higher Education

Crime in Canadian Context, Third Edition: Chapter 7: Crimes in the Context of Organizations and Institutions