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During the half-century period in which Edgar Hoover was its director, the F.B.I.: C) accorded rather little attention to white collar crime White collar offenders are most often incarcerated in what type of prison? C) Minimum security prisons According to the text, which of the following does not contribute to the relatively low level of attention paid to white collar crime by local prosecutors? D) A concern about antagonizing local consumers and workers The U. S. Secret Service is most likely to be involved with investigating white collar crimes that: A) involve counterfeiting of U.S. currency Which of the following acts called for increased oversight duties for corporate fraud, and required corporate executives to personally certify corporate financial statements? A) The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Inspectors General: B) are attached to a variety of government departments and agencies, and conduct internal audits and investigations The Administrative Procedure Act, enacted in 1946, was intended to do which of the following? B) Impose some constraints on administrative agency powers, and provide guidelines for its procedures. According to the text, in some rare cases, judges may override a jury finding of guilty if they conclude that: B) the jury has misunderstood the evidence John Braithwaite has argued that shaming can be an effective general response to crime if it is which of the following? B) Reintegrative The U. S. Customs Service investigates all but which of the following activities? D) Counterfeiting of foreign currency The policing force which is most involved with investigating white collar crime operates at which of the following levels? D) Federal The combination most likely to lead to criminal prosecution of white collar crime, according to a survey cited in the text, is which of the following? C) Individual defendants, organizational victims, and multiple offenses or a large number of victims The view that white collar crime law is implemented by the state because it helps sustain the system and “legitimates” the state in the eyes of the general population is most consistent with which of the following
perspectives? C) Structuralist Which of the following statements about the application of criminal laws to harms committed by businesses is true? C) The proper lines of demarcation between acceptable and unacceptable practices have not been self- evident to all Which of the following is not an argument that has been made against incarcerating white collar offenders? B) The harm committed by white collar offenders is much less than that of conventional offenders The prosecution of environmental crime: D) increased somewhat during the 1980s Which of the following is a product of appellate court opinions? C) Case law The U. S. Postal Inspection Service is most likely to be involved with investigating which of the following types of crime? C) Contrepreneurial Which of the following penal objectives is not fulfilled by occupational disqualification? D) Rehabilitation Which of the following American presidents was most associated with a movement towards deregulation of the market? D) Ronald Reagan The first known laws directed at commercial transactions date back to which of the following periods? A) Ancient Mesopotamia The prosecution of white collar crime cases became a much greater priority for the U.S. Department of Justice beginning in the: C) 1970s White collar crime defendants are more likely to do which of the following than defendants in conventional crime cases? C) Plead not guilty and go to trial Federal criminal prosecutions in white collar crime cases are initiated by which of the following? A) The Department of Justice or U.S. Attorneys
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