Quiz 07 | Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

Who was the first American scholar to draw attention to white collar crime (1939)?
a) Edwin Sutherland
b) Robert Merton
c) Albert Cohen
d) None of the above

Question 2:

Which of the following three groups 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:

In chapter 7, examples of corporate wrong-doing involving the steel and pulp and paper industries were discussed. Which country did this take place in?
a) Canada
b) The United States
c) Mexico
d) Russia

Question 4:

What was the name of the town in Ontario where the closure of public laboratories in 1996 followed the death of seven people due to E. coli in the drinking water?
a) Bellville
b) Walkerton
c) Owen Sound
d) Bracebridge

Question 5:

What is the term used to describe the illegal activity that 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:

In what province did approximately 200 workers lose their lives between the 1930s and the 1970s as the result of industrial disease associated with working in a fluorspar mine?
a) Newfoundland
b) Prince Edward Island
c) Quebec
d) British Columbia

Question 7:

As stated in the text, what three factors are seen important to gaining an understanding of white-collar crime?
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, ______ are the most most likely to partake in credit card and postal crime.
a) those under age 25
b) males
c) females
d) immigrant workers

Question 9:

What was the name of the crisis that occurred in Canada in 1970 that led the prime minister to invoke the War Measures Act?
a) The Black Panther crisis
b) The oil crisis
c) The FLQ crisis
d) The drug crisis

Question 10:

The ‘bad apple’ explanation of police wrongdoing suggests that ________ is the most important factor to take into account.
a) the existence of deviant police subcultures
b) poor recruiting
c) the individual shortcomings of a small number of police officers
d) the job pressures of being a police officer

Higher Education

Crime in Canadian Context, second edition: Chapter 7: Crime in the Context of Organizations and Institutions