Module 5: Street Crime and Violence Flashcards
What is street crimes?
non serious offences that occur on the streets
graffiti
prostitution
common assaults
street level robbery
low level drug dealing
good order offences ( drunk and disorderly)
far more common and incite fear in community
Significance of street crime
consumes a large amount of police resources
Street crime peak times
more likely on weekends or at night
assaults around night clubs and bus/train stations
What is Violent Crime?
crimes against the person homicide assault robbery kidnapping domestic violence sexual assault
Homicide victim risk factors
indigenous are 4 times more likely males 20-24 and females 35-39 less than 5 and more than 80 years old unemployed single males and partnered females
Homicide situational risk factors
residential settings are more common
Domestic Homicide
incident involving death of family member or other person from a domestic relationship
Intimate partner homicide
current or former partner
fillicide
victim is child of offender
parricide
victim is parent of offender
siblicide
brother or sister of offender
Types of fillicide
Neonaticide
Altruistic Filicide
Fatal child abuse
spouse revenge
Neonaticide
most often mother the child is less than 1 day old mother is most often unmarried, young unwanted child no psychiatric disorders child is often killed through asphyxiation
Stages of Neonaticide
discovery of unplanned pregnancy fear concealment of pregnancy emotional isolation denial
Altruistic Fillicide
mostly by mother misguided love, believes death is in best interest of child mental illness lack of social support feeling of inadequacy intention to kill
