Categories of crime Flashcards
What is a white-collar crime?
The term ‘white-collar’ refers to employees who work in offices or sales and who do not work in manual labour (e.g. on a building site).
Who are white-collar crimes often carried out by?
White-collar crimes are often carried out by people who seem to others to be very respectable but who take advantage of their position at work to commit a crime.
What are examples of white colour crime?
White-collar crime includes fraud, bribery, false accounting and money laundering. These are often hidden crimes as many firms do not report them to police, preferring to deal with the matter internally.
What is a blue-collar crime?
A blue-collar worker is a member of the working class who performs manual labour, which may involve skilled or unskilled jobs such as in the construction industry. Someone who is unemployed due to a lack of qualifications or skills may also be described as blue-collar.
What is an example of blue-collar crime?
Blue-collar crime tends to be more obvious than white-collar crime, as there is usually an immediate victim. Blue-collar crimes include housebreaking, vandalism, mugging and assault.
What is a hate crime?
A Hate Incident is any incident which the victim, or anyone else, thinks is based on someone’s prejudice towards them because of their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or because they are transgender.
What is an example of a hate crime?
Examples of hate crimes include assaults, criminal damage, harassment, murder, sexual assault, hate mail and causing harassment, alarm or distress
What is cybercrime?
The use of a computer as an instrument to further illegal ends.
What are examples of cybercrime?
Phishing: bogus emails asking for security information and personal details
Webcam manager: where criminals take over your webcam
File hijacker: where criminals hijack files and hold them to ransom
What is a gun crime?
Gun crime is defined as any crime committed using a firearm.
What are examples of gun crime?
Shooting a person or animal, discharging a weapon or threatening someone with a gun is a crime in Scotland. Using or carrying an imitation gun is also a crime.
