SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Instructor: Jeremy Don Kerr E-mail address: jkerr0@uky.edu
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Response Sheet #9: White-Collar, Corporate, and State Organized Deviance Response Sheet Questions Instructions: On a full sheet of looseleaf
paper write your name in the format "Last name, First name" in the upper right hand corner -- also write the last four digits of your student ID number. In the upper left hand corner put "Soc 436" and Response Sheet #9."
Answer questions in pen or pencil using short-answer format. You do not need to answer all of the questions. Persons whose ID number ends in 0-4 should answer the ODD numbered questions; persons whose ID number ends in 5-9
should answer the EVEN numbered questions. Read the following selection in your reading packet from to answer the following questions:
1. What is one of the most basic difficulties in measuring white-collar crime? 2. True or False? To date, there has been no large-scale survey of those in white-collar positions asking them to anonymously report the
offenses in which they have been involved. 3. The cases of white-collar crime that do appear in official records are generally uncovered by whom? 4. Why do the cases of white-collar crime uncovered by
government investigators represent only a "small percentage" of actual offenses? 5. How much is thought to be lost to anti-trust violations each year?
6. How much is thought to be lost to fraud in the health-care industry annually? 7. What percentage of Americans in a 1998 AARP poll reported that they had been the victim of a fraud or major consumer swindle in the
past year? 8. What was the percentage of employees surveyed in the study of company ethicswho reported that they had witnessed a violation of the law or company ethical standards in the past six months? 9. How many people does the National Safety Council estimate are killed in industrial "accidents" each year? 10. What proportion of fatal on-the-job injuries in Great Britian involved some violation of
health and safety laws according to Steve Tomb? 11. How many deaths are estimated to be caused by unsafe products each year?
12. The National Cancer Institute estimates that what percent of cancers may be environmentally induced? 13. How many people die each year from lung problems caused by air pollution?
Read "Corporate Deviance" in your textbook to answer the following questions 14. Why is corporate crime often not considered a crime at all according to David Simon? 15. In 1995, what company was found
guilty of using unsuspecting patients (many of whom were elderly and infirm) as human guinea pigs? 16. What did surveys of meat-packing houses in the 1960's reveal about the "tidbits" found in meat sold for human
consumption? (i.e. what was in the meat?). 17. What is "Number 2" meat? 18. What major meat producer was found to be taking "number 2" meat and reselling it in ghetto stores for a higher cost
that fresh pork-chops? 19. In 1984 what was the King Cattle Packing company (a key supplier of beef to schools) found guilty of?
20. What percent of the color in the food we eat is the result of synthetic colors added to the food? 21. Diethlstillbestrol (DES) is an artificial female sex hormone that fattens about what percent of the beef cattle
in the United States? 22. Why is DES fed to cattle? 23. Why do we not know what health problems most food additives may eventually cause? 24. What have American corporations done with
defective medical devices, lethal drugs, carcinogens, toxic pesticides, and other harmful products whten they have been banned for sale in the United States?
25. Why is television (and advertising) directed at children so effective according to the authors? 26. True or False? Officially, the deaths resulting from dangerous working conditions (conditions that are often the
result of willful neglect for worker safety) are considered crimes. 27. What company is the country's number one emitter of toxins? 28. In 1991, former governer Bill Clinton of Arkansas criticized the
Cargill Corporation for releasing how much animal waste into Arkansas rivers? 29. True or False. Simon argues that corporations are solely responsible for the dangers they create for the individual and society. For the following questions, read the section entitled Crimes by the Government. 30. What are the only two "civilized" Western nations in which sterilization laws were enforced?
31. How many developmentally disabled citizens were sterlized between 1924 and 1972 in Virginia alone? 32. What is the only contribution that the Tuskegee experiments ever made to medical science and how much did those 70
subjects who survived the study each receive after they won their lawsuit against the government? 33. What two mind control techniques did Dr. David Cameron specialize in?
34. What type of subjects did the CIA would be best for their LSD experiments in the 1950's? 35. What arrangement was made between the CIA and the [Federal] Bureau of Narcotics in order to test mind-altering drugs on unwitting
subjects? 36. What microorganism was released by the U.S. Army into the New York city subway system and for how many days did the experiment take place? 37. Between 1943 and 1945 which arm of the U.S. armed forces took part
in gas chamber experiments in Washington, D.C. and Maryland? 38. How did the vice-chancellor for research at Tulane Medical center describe the research done on unwitting subjects, by the military, at Charity hospital in New
Orleans, LA. 39. In 1995, the federal government admitted that ______ radiation experiments had been conducted between 1945 and 1974; Most of the subjects were what?
40*.Why do prisoners make convenient human subjects from the experimenter's point of view?
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