1.1 Analyse Different Types Of Crime

Question 1

What is white collar crime?

Answer 1

• Usually committed by a person of respectability; no criminal sanction is given.
• Sutherland; first person to bring up a theory about it.
• Offender = person of a high social status.
• Victim = people who are lower down the financial ladder/ people who work for the offender.
• Examples -> false accounting & overcharging.

Question 2

What is organised crime?

Answer 2

• Usually committed by gangs and syndicates.
• Examples -> Fraud, serious robbery & high tech crimes.
• Offender = gangs/syndicates.
• Victim = people targeted by the gangs.

Question 3

What is corporate crime?

Answer 3

• An illegal act of omission & commission; usually punished by criminal sanction.
• Example -> embezzling from businesses.
• Offender = the company.
• Victim = employees/government/other companies.

Question 4

What is professional crime?

Answer 4

• Committed by those whose main source of income is through crime.
• Examples -> fraud, burglary & embezzlement.
• Offender = people who specialise in a particular crime.
• Victim = people being targeted through this crime.

Question 5

What is moral crime?

Answer 5

• Crimes against normal standard of morality within society.
• Examples -> prostitution/underage drinking.
• Usually victimless.
• Sometimes individual can be victim & offender.

Question 6

What is state crime?

Answer 6

• Where some governments agree to be criminal in their actions.
• Example -> war crime.
• Offender = government.
• Victim = general public.

Question 7

What is technological crime?

Answer 7

• Crimes committed through the use of technology.
• Examples -> downloading illegal images & posting and down loading copyrighted materials.
• Offender = person using technology as abuse.
• Victim = person affected by the actions of the offender.

Question 8

What is hate crime?

Individual

Answer 8

• Committed by discriminating against a person due to characteristics.
• Example -> giving someone hate because of their gender/race/faith etc.
• Offender = the person giving the hate.
• Victim = the person receiving the hate.

Question 9

What is honour crime?

Individual

Answer 9

• Violence & murder committed by people who want to defend the reputation of their family/community.
• Example -> honour killing; murdering of a person accused of bringing shame upon their family/community.
• Offender = family/community who holds honour very highly.
• Victim = the person who dishonoured the family/community.

Question 10

What is domestic abuse?

Individual

Answer 10

• Abuse within a household.
• Examples -> physical abuse, verbal abuse & psychological abuse towards the people you live with.
• Offender = the person giving the abuse.
• Victim = the person receiving the abuse.