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14 Cards in this Set
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Illegal activity conducted by individuals or groups acting in consort, typically involving extortion, fraud, theft, smuggling, or the sale of illicit products |
Organized Crime |
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Illegal activity conducted by employees and/or officers of a business, either for individual gain or to benefit the company |
Corporate Crime |
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Any crime that involves the use of computer technology or the internet |
Cybercrime |
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Organized crime groups started or operated in Canada by Aboriginal people, involved in crimes ranging from cigarette smuggling to illegal gambling |
Aboriginal Crime Groups |
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An association of manufacturers or suppliers who have entered into an informal agreement to fix prices, to limit supply, and minimize competition by various means, some of which may be illegal and may involve violence |
Cartel |
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The market for illegal goods and services (e.g. prostitution, illicit drugs, contraband computer software, off-market cigarettes), typically made up of otherwise law-abiding citizens and serviced by organized crime groups |
Illicit Market |
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A criminal arrangement, associated especially with the Mafia, in which a business is provided with protection from sabotage, vandalism, robbery, and other crime, in exchange for a regular fee, typically paid to someone who has threatened violence or other retribution if the "client" rejects the service and refuses to make the payment |
Protection Racket |
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Unlawful activities involving willing participants who have given consent to their involvement |
Consensual Crimes |
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Crime that involves activities or transactions that violate the laws of more than one country |
Transnational Crime |
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Illegal activities such as fraud and embezzlement conducted by employees and officers of a company using their professional status for person and/or corporate gain |
White-Collar Crime |
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Unlawful activity in which there is no identifiable victim, either because the activity is consensual (e.g. gambling) or because the activity is directed against a corporate entity rather than an individual (e.g. white-collar crime) |
Victimless Crime |
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The theory that criminals draw on a set of techniques to temporarily neutralize, or suppress, their internal moral obligation to abide by the law, which allows them to overcome their natural hesitation to commit a crime |
Neutralization |
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A correctional philosophy introduced by John Braithwaite that advocates the use of public shaming and/or public acceptance of wrongdoing as a way of having offenders re-enter general society |
Reintegrative Shaming |
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A computer program designed to damage a local computer system when the software is activated by an unsuspecting user while performing another, non-threatening task |
Trojan Horse |
