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enterprise crime
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the use of illegal tactics to gain profit in the marketplace. enterprise crimes can involve both the violation kof law in the course of an otherwise legitimate occupation or the sale and distribution of illegal commodities.
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white-collar crime
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illegal acts that capitalize on a person's status in the marketplace. white-collar crimes can involve theft,embezzlement,fraud,market manipulation,restraint of trade,and false advertising.
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organized crime
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illegal activities of people and organizations whose acknowledged purpose is profit through illegitimate business empire.
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corporate crime
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white-collar crime involving a legal violation by a corporate entity,such as price fixing,restraint of trade,or hazardous waste dumping.
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sting or swindle
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a white-collaer crime in which people use their institutional or business position to trick others out of their money.
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chiseling
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crimes that involve using illegal means to cheat an organization,it's consumers,or both, on a regular basis.
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insider trading
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illegal buyong of stock in a company based on information provided by someone who has a fiduciary interest in the company,such as an employee or an attorney or accountant retained by the firm.
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exploitation
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using others to commit crimes; for example, as contract killers or drug runners.
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influence peddling
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using an institutional position to grant favors and sell information to which their co-conspirators are not entitled.
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payola
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bribery of an influential person in exchange for the promotion of a product or service,such as giving radio dic jockeys payments to play songs.
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pilferage
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theft by employees through stealth or deception.
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organizational cime
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crime that involves large corporations and their efforts to control the marketplace and earn huge profits through unlawful bidding,unfair advertising,monopolistic practices,or other illegal means.
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actual authority
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the authority a corporation knowingly gives to an employee.
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apparent authority
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authorithy that a third party,such as a customer,reasonably believes the agent has to perform the act in question.
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sherman antitrust act
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law that subjects to criminal or civil sanctions any person "who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy "in restriant of interstate commerce.
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alien conspiracy theory
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the view that organized crime was imported to the united states by europeans and that crime cartels have a policy of restricting their membership to people of their own ethnic background.
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mafia
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a criminal society that originated in sicily and is believed to control racketeering in the united states.
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racketeering
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using an organization to operate or commit ongoing criminal activities,typical extortin,but also other crimes such as drug trafficking and loan sharking commited in an organized manner.
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cosa nostra
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a national syndicate of 25 or so italian-dominated crime families who control crime in distinct geographic areas.
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raceteer influenced and corrupt organization act
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federal legislation that enables prosecuters to bring additional criminal or civil charges against people whose multiple criminal acts constitute a conspiracy.
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enterprise theory of investigation
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a standard investigation tool of the fbi that focuses on criminal enterprise and investigation attacks on the structure of the criminal enterprise rather than on criminal acts viewed as isolated incidents.
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