Chapters 12 &13

According to survey data, drug use is a substantially greater problem today than twenty years ago T or F

False

Despite the globalization of crime, U.S. law enforcement activities have not had to expand beyond national borders. T or F

False

Most "John's" accept the majority of rape myths. T or F

False

State authority occupational crime is committed by professionals in their occupational capacity. T or F

False

The Heroin Signature Program identifies the chemicals with which samples of pure heroin have been cut before they are sold on the street. T or F

False

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the first federal legislation directly relating to the conduct of American business. T or F

False

What statement is not true about health-care fraud?

Health-care fraud primarily targets private health-care programs, rather than government-sponsored Medicare and Medicaid

Regarding the relationship between drug use and crime is not supported by scientific evidence?

Increased drug use in society cases an increase in reported crime.

_____may occur through illegal prescribing by physicians and illegal dispensing by pharmacists.

Pharmaceutical diversion

____has been called the biggest white-collar crime in history.

The 1980's savings and loan disaster

What was not a provision of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994?

The Act DID NOT authorize the forfeiture and seizure of chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamine.

Loan sharking involves lending money at rates higher than those prescribed by law. T or F

True

The view of prostitution as morally and ethically wrong is an argument used against the legalization of prostitution. T or F

True

The rapid development of African criminal enterprises since the 1980's is due to____

advances in communications technology

The obstruction of justice conviction of the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen is an example of _____

corporate

______ criminology is the study of environmental harm, crime, law, regulation, victimization, and justice.

green

The most commonly illicit drug is____

marijuana