Examples of crime in the following topics:
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- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
- Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons.
- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
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- A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
- A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
- Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons.
- With the exception of rape (which accounts for 6% of all reported violent crimes), males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime.
- The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is usually problematic due to the way different countries classify crime.
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- Global crime, such as Transnational Organized Crime, refers to any crime that is coordinated across national borders.
- Global crime can refer to any organized crime that occurs at an international or transnational level.
- Like national and local organized crime, global crime includes highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
- Transnational organized crime (TOC or transnational crime) is organized crime coordinated across national borders, involving groups or networks of individuals working in more than one country to plan and execute illegal business ventures.
- While the International Criminal Court can prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity, it has no jurisdiction over other global crimes.
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- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- The U.S. has two major data collection programs: the Uniform Crime Reports from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
- Fraud or certain drug charges are examples of nonviolent crimes.
- Because of the difficulties in quantifying how much crime actually occurs, researchers generally take two approaches to gathering statistics about crime.
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- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crimes may also result in cautions, rehabilitation, or be unenforced.
- Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently, in different localities, and at different time stages of the crime.
- Similarly, changes in the collection and calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given "crime problem."
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- Organized crime refers to transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals.
- Organized crime refers to transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
- Organized crime groups operate as smaller units within the overall network, and as such tend towards valuing significant others, familiarity of social and economic environments, or tradition.
- Bureaucratic and corporate organized crime groups are defined by the general rigidity of their internal structures.
- Organized crime groups often victimize businesses through the use of extortion or theft and fraud activities like hijacking cargo trucks, robbing goods, committing bankruptcy fraud, insurance fraud, or stock fraud.
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- The peak age for property crime arrests in the United States is 16, compared to 18 for violent crime arrests.
- Property crime is a category of crime that includes larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, vandalism, and burglary .
- Property crimes are high-volume crimes, with cash, electronics, power tools, cameras, and jewelry often targeted.
- Some crime prevention programs, such as Neighborhood Watch, have shown little effectiveness in reducing burglary and other crime.
- The peak age for property crime arrests in the United States is 16, compared to 18 for violent crime arrests.
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- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime initially was defined by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. " A clear example of how deviance reflects power imbalances is in the reporting and tracking of crimes.
- Indeed, white-collar crimes are typically committed by individuals in higher social classes.
- Additionally, men benefit more from white-collar crime than do women, as they are more likely to attempt these crimes when they are in more powerful positions, allowing them to reap greater rewards.
- Explain why white-collar crime is less likely to be tracked in the U.S.
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- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- Corporate crime deals with the company as a whole.
- The relationship that white-collar crime has with corporate crime is that they are similar because they both are involved within the business world.
- Their difference is that white-collar crime benefits the individual involved, and corporate crime benefits the company or the corporation.
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- Crimes were punished harshly during the Middle Ages with torture and executions common place for even the smallest of offenses.
- During medieval times, there were extremely harsh punishments for all crimes.
- Trial by jury was used for all crimes except for the most serious crimes.
- Trial by ordeal was used for the most serious crimes.
- Describe the ways in which crimes were punished in the Middle Ages