…. STREET CRIME or WHITE COLLAR CRIME? By general definition‚ a crime is a wronging‚ proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. Our normal concept of crime is usually that of a physical one. We as a society‚ generally conjure images of a personal assault on oneself
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Classifying Crimes Kaplan University CJ 230 Professor Shipley October 8‚ 2011 When investigating crimes‚ two elements‚ Mens Rea‚ the mental element‚ and Actus Reus‚ the physical element‚ must be present. Mens Rea is “Latin for a guilty mind‚ or criminal intent in committing the act” (http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Mens+Rea). Actus Reus is “Latin for a "guilty act." The actus reus is the act which‚ in combination with a certain mental state‚ such as intent or recklessness
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being the root cause of youth crime and this essay will examine evidence to support this claim and evidence to dispute it. Although it is quite subjective as to whether a bad childhood is the cause of youth crime‚ the fact remains that a quarter of all reported crime is committed by young offenders between the ages of ten to seventeen. Home Office statistics show more than a half of all recorded robberies (51%)‚ a third of burglaries (32%) and a third of vehicle crimes (31%) were the result of young
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’[1] Examples of these crimes include‚ electronic funds transfer crime‚ electronic money laundering‚ [2]counterfeiting‚ and software piracy.[3] Contrary to traditional property offences‚ computers coupled with telecommunications technology enables offenders not to leave any traces of usual biological evidence in interpersonal offences such as finger prints or hair that could lead to the offender through forensic tests. Even if the police traced back the computer that the fund transfer crime was originated
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Understanding Crime Statistics 1. The level of recorded crime may decrease due to the enormous pressure and expectations put on police departments by society to keep crime down. Increased and improved police resources and harsher custodial sentences is what Police departments claim to be the reason for the reduction in crime. However this being said it has been suggested that Police departments may have altered crime statistic figures‚ in order to meet new Home Office efficiency targets
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TECHNOLOGY AND CRIME Cybercrime‚ hacking‚ blackmailing‚ fraud‚ theft and extortion; these are the first few types of crimes come into my mind when we are presented with the words “technology” and “crime”. One of the reasons might be that we all have been prone to the nuisance caused by any of these crimes at least once‚ as almost everyone these days has access to the computer and the internet. Lets us start by considering the fact that Crime has existed as long as humans and will only become extinct
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theories were developed and introduced into the media in the 1920s; they are used to look at how media texts or products influence people who consume them‚ they are used more and more particularly in recent years to look at how negative messages for example sexual and violent based content affect different audience groups. There are two main effects theories that are used within the which are known as “Uses and gratifications” and “Hypodermic model”. Uses and Gratifications Theory Ref: http://www
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Crime Mapping Definition of crime mapping. Crime mapping is an important tool that is used by analysts to find where crimes occur the most and to analyze that area for possible suspects. The analysts wait for a crime to take place‚ and then mark a precise point on a map for every incidence that occurs. After they get enough points to tell where the area is where these crimes have taken place‚ the analysts can identify main crime hotspots‚ trends‚ and patterns. Solving crimes with crime mapping
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Victimless crime is defined as a violation of community standards or an illicit act against a government policy or agency (Wisegeek‚ 2009) yet‚ which neither directly harms nor violates the rights of any specific person‚ although some people may claim it harms society as a whole. Many people consider such acts as drunk driving‚ prostitution‚ public drunkenness‚ assisting someone to die at his or her request‚ using drugs‚ white-collar crimes‚ and abortion to be victimless crimes. They feel‚ as though
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“Computer Crime Is Widespread Which Can Be Mainly Attributed To The Overload of Information on the Internet” La Rose Brown Introduction to Computer Michael Seesahai September 12‚ 201 Computer crime is indeed widespread and can be mainly
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