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Types of Crimes in the US
There are two main types of crimes in the US: felonies and misdemeanors. Felonies are serious crimes that are punishable by imprisonment for more than one year, while misdemeanors are less serious crimes that are punishable by imprisonment for less than one year or by a fine.
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- 2014(Publication Date)
- University Publications(Publisher)
________________________ WORLD TECHNOLOGIES ________________________ Chapter- 2 Types of Crimes Property crime Property crime is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. Property crime only involves the taking of money or property, and does not involve force or threat of force against a victim. Although robbery involves taking property, it is classified as a violent crime, as force or threat of force on an individual that is present is involved in contrast to burglary which is typically of an unoccupied dwelling or other unoccupied building. Property crimes are high-volume crimes, with cash, electronics (e.g. televisions), power tools, cameras, and jewellery often targeted. Hot products tend to be items that are concealable, removable, available, valuable, and enjoyable, with an ease of disposal being the most important characteristic. Types of property crime Burglary Burglary of residences, retail establishments, and other commercial facilities involves breaking and entering, and stealing property. Attempted forcible entry into a property is also classified as burglary, in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) definition. As of 1999, there were 1.4 million residential burglaries reported in the United States, which was a record low number, not seen since 1966. Though, up to 50% of burglaries are not reported to the police. The clearance rate for burglary is low, with only 12.7% of cases being solved in the United States in 2005, and 23% in the United Kingdom. In the United States, burglary rates are highest in August and lowest in February, with weather, length-of-day, and other factors having an effect on rates. Fall and Winter are peak seasons for burglary in Denmark. Most residential burglaries occur on weekdays, between 10-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m, when homes are the least likely to be occupied.
eBook - PDFDefining Crime
A Critique of the Concept and Its Implication
- M. Lynch, P. Stretesky, M. Long(Authors)
- 2016(Publication Date)
- Palgrave Macmillan(Publisher)
These violent crimes typically include criminal- law violations such as homicide, rape, robbery, and various kinds of assaults. However, the criminal-law definition of violent crime excludes a wide range of behaviors that cause violence and that are similar in content and form to violations found in criminal law. As a result, when we consider this traditional definition of violence, we must also examine whether limiting the definition of crime to the behaviors found in the criminal law is rational, objective, and pro- duces a consistent definition of crime with conceptual and scientific validity. There are many forms of violence in society that the legal definition of crime ignores, and the criminal law offers little sci- entific rationale for doing so. Absent any scientific rationalization, it is unclear why some forms of violence are considered crimes by criminologists while others are not. The criminal-law definition of crime is focused on individu- als. While the criminal law may focus almost entirely on individu- als, that choice is not justified. Why should the definition of crime focus on the behavior of individuals to the exclusion of behaviors we associate with entities? The criminal law provides no answer to this question. Our definition focuses on the nature of the behav- ior and does not distinguish between the different types of actors that commit those harms in its effort to identify crime. In our view, 126 DEFINING CRIME it matters little if a violent offense is committed by an individual or a corporation. We find the criminological tendency to assume that corporate acts of violence are different than individual acts of violence to be misleading, and this leads to a number of confusing assumptions about, and responses to, offenses committed by indi- viduals and corporations. Corporations are legal entities, but they are not independent of human behavior—that is, corporations can- not act without humans acting or making decisions.
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________________________ WORLD TECHNOLOGIES ________________________ Chapter 2 Types of Crimes Property crime Property crime is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. Property crime only involves the taking of money or property, and does not involve force or threat of force against a victim. Although robbery involves taking property, it is classified as a violent crime, as force or threat of force on an individual that is present is involved in contrast to burglary which is typically of an unoccupied dwelling or other unoccupied building. Property crimes are high-volume crimes, with cash, electronics (e.g. televisions), power tools, cameras, and jewellery often targeted. Hot products tend to be items that are concealable, removable, available, valuable, and enjoyable, with an ease of disposal being the most important characteristic. Types of property crime Burglary Burglary of residences, retail establishments, and other commercial facilities involves breaking and entering, and stealing property. Attempted forcible entry into a property is also classified as burglary, in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) definition. As of 1999, there were 1.4 million residential burglaries reported in the United States, which was a record low number, not seen since 1966. Though, up to 50% of burglaries are not reported to the police. The clearance rate for burglary is low, with only 12.7% of cases being solved in the United States in 2005, and 23% in the United Kingdom. In the United States, burglary rates are highest in August and lowest in February, with weather, length-of-day, and other factors having an effect on rates. Fall and Winter are peak seasons for burglary in Denmark. Most residential burglaries occur on weekdays, between 10-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m, when homes are the least likely to be occupied.
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________________________ WORLD TECHNOLOGIES ________________________ Chapter- 2 Types of Crime Property crime Property crime is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. Property crime only involves the taking of money or property, and does not involve force or threat of force against a victim. Although robbery involves taking property, it is classified as a violent crime, as force or threat of force on an individual that is present is involved in contrast to burglary which is typically of an unoccupied dwelling or other unoccupied building. Property crimes are high-volume crimes, with cash, electronics (e.g. televisions), power tools, cameras, and jewellery often targeted. Hot products tend to be items that are concealable, removable, available, valuable, and enjoyable, with an ease of disposal being the most important characteristic. Types of property crime Burglary Burglary of residences, retail establishments, and other commercial facilities involves breaking and entering, and stealing property. Attempted forcible entry into a property is also classified as burglary, in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) definition. As of 1999, there were 1.4 million residential burglaries reported in the United States, which was a record low number, not seen since 1966. Though, up to 50% of burglaries are not reported to the police. The clearance rate for burglary is low, with only 12.7% of cases being solved in the United States in 2005, and 23% in the United Kingdom. In the United States, burglary rates are highest in August and lowest in February, with weather, length-of-day, and other factors having an effect on rates. Fall and Winter are peak seasons for burglary in Denmark. Most residential burglaries occur on weekdays, between 10-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m, when homes are the least likely to be occupied.
eBook - ePubDrugs and Crime
Theories and Practices
- Richard Hammersley(Author)
- 2015(Publication Date)
- Polity(Publisher)
3What Is Crime?
Long before drugs there was crime. As far as the Bible knows, Cain did not smoke crack or even get drunk before killing Abel. Crime is an enduring category of human activity, so most non-academic writing about crime (and even some academic writing) slips into thinking that specific crimes are natural events that happen largely independently of who is describing them, like rain, or death. The more accurate way of considering a specific criminal act is as a relationship or transaction between two or more people, although one of the people may be a legal entity, such as ‘the community’, or ‘the company’. For example, ‘theft’ is only such if it involves taking property belonging to someone else. A dog cannot ‘steal’ (ignoring the quaint sixteenth-century activity of trying animals for witchcraft and other crimes; Evans, 1987) because it has no concept of ownership. Crimes are social and communicative acts, not natural events.Furthermore, for a specific act, there may be contention at every level about whether it is a true crime or not. There may be dispute about the ‘material facts’, about the intentions and beliefs underlying the behaviours, and about the ethical and moral interpretation of those intentions and beliefs. A lively contemporary area of debate that airs these difficulties is that over the rights of animals, where attitudes vary from assigning animals rights essentially equivalent to human rights, to considering them to have no rights at all (Cohen and Regan, 2001). In contrast, much practising criminology can be complacent about the definition of crime. Talking about action on ‘crime’ is sloppy shorthand, which can delude people that ‘crime’ is something objective that can be reduced, tackled or otherwise affected by interventions. While specific forms of crime and types of event can be tackled, ‘crime’ can be thought about only as the abstract category name for a range of human transactions. Crime rates can be affected by redefining some of the transactions that contribute to the category. For example, if ‘bullying’ is widened from verbally taunting or physically harming another to include ignoring them or not being nice to them, then the prevalence of ‘bullying’ increases. If ‘problem drug users’ are defined in surveys as anyone who has used heroin or cocaine in the four weeks before interview, which is often the finest grained information about drug use that is asked about in survey questions, then there seem to be more ‘problem drug users’ than if a more stringent definition is used that requires use nearly every day for a period of weeks or months.
eBook - PDF- Steven Briggs(Author)
- 2021(Publication Date)
- For Dummies(Publisher)
94 PART 2 Identifying Types of Crime Identifying Types of White-Collar Crime White-collar crime has changed somewhat since the 1930s. And while criminolo-gists and others debated a precise definition, the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) — a nonprofit corporation that Congress set up to help police departments investigate such crimes — came up with a pretty good one. According to the NW3C, white-collar crimes are Illegal or unethical acts that violate fiduciary responsibility or public trust for personal or organizational gain This definition is broad, but it basically means that people in business or govern-ment who violate a trust for their own gain or for their business’s gain are white-collar criminals. How much white-collar crime is committed? The types of white-collar crime are so varied, I can’t quote any good statistics to help you gauge how widespread the problem is. But because white-collar crime frequently results in the loss of millions of dollars, you need only a few cases to see that white-collar crime is a big problem. And you need only to scan the news to see frequent examples of mis-conduct by corporations, politicians, and wealthy people in society. In the sections that follow, I discuss some of the more common examples of white-collar crime. Stealing from the boss: Embezzlement In a nutshell, embezzlement is the act of stealing from your employer. Some people may debate whether embezzlement can really be considered a white-collar crime because it occurs so widely across the socioeconomic spectrum. Most commonly, embezzlement occurs when retail employees steal cash or merchandise. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce estimates that 75 percent of all employees have stolen from an employer at least once. And the National Retail Federation estimates that, in 2018, the second largest losses came from employee theft, averaging $1,264 per incident. But classic embezzlement goes far beyond just dipping into the till.
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