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Pearson Prentice Hall
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Fraud or embezzlement that occurs within or against financial institutions that are insured or regulated by the u. S. Government. Financial institution fraud may include commercial loan fraud, check fraud, counterfeit negotiable instruments, mortgage fraud, check kiting, and false credit applications.
Industry:Sociology
Facilities from which individuals can rarely come and go, and in which communal life is intense and circumscribed. Individuals in total institutions tend to eat, sleep, play, learn, and worship (if at all) together.
Industry:Sociology
Distinctions made between individuals on the basis of important defining social characteristics.
Industry:Sociology
Desirable behavioral consequences likely to increase the frequency of occurrence of that behavior.
Industry:Sociology
Crimes in which drugs contribute to the offense (excluding violations of drug laws).
Industry:Sociology
Crime committed with the use of computers, or via the manipulation of digital forms of data. Another term for computer crime.
Industry:Sociology
A technique intended to predict future outcomes, and which builds upon environmental scanning by attempting to assess the likelihood of a variety of possible outcomes once important trends have been identified.
Industry:Sociology
A study of other studies about a particular topic of interest.
Industry:Sociology
A sociological perspective on crime which suggests that the root cause of criminality can be found in a clash of values between variously socialized groups over what is acceptable or proper behavior.
Industry:Sociology
A shift of criminal activity from one spatial location to another.
Industry:Sociology