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65 Cards in this Set
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Computer Crime
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rogue programs that copy themselves onto other computer programs
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Coerced Crime
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a term used to describe a practive in which auto dealer franchises are required to force accessories and unnecessary sales in oreder to keep their franchise
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Corporate Crime
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crime within a legitimate occcupation on behalf of one's employer
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Corportae Dumping
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the selling of products that are prohibited in this country overseas where there is less regulation
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Criminaloid
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criminal-like behavior. a term first used by A.E. Ross to refer to flagitious (wicked) practices that had not yet been condemned by criminal law
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Embezzlement
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theft from an employer by an employee who has reached a level of trust
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Equity Funding Scandal
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a corporate scam in which fake insurance policies (ghosts) were created in order to take advantage of reinsures
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Higher Immorality
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describes the moral insensibility of the Power Elite
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Industrial Espionage
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spying in the commercial sector
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Insider Trading
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using prohibited, confidentiakl information in order to trade for one's advantage
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Churning
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a dishonest practice by stockbrokers of stockcrokers of unnecessarily causing many buys and sells of stock in order to collect commissions
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Nolo Contendere
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a plea of no contest to charges
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Occupational Crime
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crime committed during the course of a legitimate occupation for one's own benefit
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Occupational/Organizational Crime Grid
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a model that looks at white collar crimes in terms whether the perpetrator and victim are individuals, employees, or groups
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Organizational Crime
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refers to organization that use violence, provide illegal services, and have immunity of operation
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Revolving Door
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prisoners who are constantly in and out of prison
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Sweetheart Contracts
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secret deals between labor negotiators and management to the disadvantage of the workers
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Whistleblowers
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those who inform on wrongdoing within their organizaion
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White Collar Crime
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crime committed by those within legitimate occupations or organizations
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White Collar "Deadbeats"
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convicted white collar offenders often do not pay penalties
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Addiction
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an extreme physical and psychological dependence on drugs
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Broken Windows
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an approach to crime control that advocates that police not ignore small disturbances lest they lead to bigger crimes
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Closet Queens
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hidden homosexuals
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Crimes Without Victims
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crimes that are described as "legislative morality" in which there is no identifiable vicitm other than the person himself
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Decriminalization
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the lessening of penalties attached to a particular behavior
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Exhibitionism
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individuals who gain sexual excitement bny sexually exposing themselves in order to shochk their victims
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Fetishism
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when individuals have a sexual fixation on objects, attire,or parts, usually associated with the opposite sex
ex: feet, lingerie |
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Floodgate Theory
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the belief that deciminalization of some illegal behavior will open the gates to a flood of illegal activity
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Folk Crime
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crimes that everyone commits
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Harrison Act
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an anti-drug act passed in 1914 that required a doctor's prescription for narcotics and cocaine
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Incest
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sexual activity between individuals whoa re viewed as too closely biologically related
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Johns
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customers of prostitutes
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Moral Entrepreneurs
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those who benefit by labeling activity as criminals
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Overcriminalization
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the overuse of the criminal law as an attempt to control deviant activity
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Pedophilia
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sexual child molestation
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Problem Drinking
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alcoholism
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Public Order Crime
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vice crimes or crimes without victims
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Sodomy
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laws forbidding particular types of sexual activity
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Tearoom
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a slana slang term for public restooms that are used for homosexual liasions
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Voyeurism
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those who gain sexual excitement by secretly observing unknowing victims
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Brainwashing
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a form of drastic resocialization of personality
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Brainwashing Myth
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the belief that the term "brainwashig" was created by intelligence agencies in order to justify bizarre mind control experiments
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COINTELPRO
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a secret FBI program, to discredit legitimate social movements
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Crimes Against Government
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political crimes against the government, from protests to terrorism
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Crimes By Government
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political crimes by the government, from human rights violations to genocide
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Enterprise
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secret organization withing the Reagan White House that was responsible for the Iran-Contra affair
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Espionage
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spying, the stealing of secrets
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Genocide
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the eradication of a group
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Hamas
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in Arabic, "fervor" or "zeal", an Islamic resistance movement
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Hate Crime
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a bias crime that is movtivated by dislike of a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity/national origin
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Hezbollah
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an Islamic terrorist group whose name means "party of God"
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Human Rights
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right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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Ideology
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a distinctive belief system
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Nuremberg Principle
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a precedent established at the Nuremberg trials that says that, if aperson has a conflict between morality an immoral orders, one is to obey morality
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Operation Chaos
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a secret CIA program to investifate activities of domestic groups
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Patriarchal Crime
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crime that is committed in the name of male dominance
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Political Crime
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crime that is committed for idealogical reasons
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Project Bluebird
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secret CIA mind control research
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Raison d' Etat
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Machiavelli's notion that any means are necessary in order to protect the state
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Sancuary Movement
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a U.S. social movement in the 1980's that attempted to provide refuge for illegal political refugees from Latin America
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Secret Police
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domestic security police whose purpose it is to protect the existing regime from violent overthrow
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SMICE
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an acronym for the method of recruiting spies: sex, motivation, ideology, commitment, and ego
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Sub Rosa Crime
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another name for espionage (literally "under the rose")
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Terrorism
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the purposeful targeting of innocents for political purposes in order to spread fear and intimidation
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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a United Nations declaration that calls for the respect of human rights
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