Different Types of Crime
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- Created on: 11-10-22 11:12
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- Different Types of Crimes
- White Collar Crimes
- Financially motivated crimes that are non-violent committed by an individual or government or business
- Not usually deviant, always criminal
- Embezzlement, fraud, tax evasion
- Typically associated with the upper class eg business men and politicians
- Victims are usually cooperation's, the state or tax payers
- Jordan Belford (1999) was found guilty of fraud, stock market manipulation, running a boiler room as part of a penny-stock scam.
- Spent 22 months in jail as he agreed to testify against dozen of participants in his scheme
- Public awareness usually is not very high
- Financially motivated crimes that are non-violent committed by an individual or government or business
- State Crimes + Human Rights Violation
- A deviant or illegal act perpetuated by the states activities.
- Genocide, waste dumping, war crimes, police brutality, etc.
- Victims are usually the state in question, the public or political opponents
- Offenders are usually state servants (politicians), civil servants, police officers or security forces
- Usually criminal and deviant but depends on what the state defines as a crime
- George Floyd murdered but police (2019)
- Rwandan genocide (1994) members of Tutsi, Hutu and Twa tribes were killed by armed militia during civil war
- Technological Crimes
- Uber agreed to pay $148 million to settle a data breech that effected 57 million customers in 2016 which they tried to cover up
- Are usually criminal but not deviant eg illegal downloads
- Victims and offenders can be anyone who has access to technology
- Offenders usually have technological knowledge
- Crimes involving technology eg. internet, social media
- Financial crime, illegal downloading, cyber trespass, identity theft, hate crime, publishing and viewing child ***********
- White Collar Crimes
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