nature of crime Flashcards
crimes that are serious in nature, violent but with no sexual elements
non-sexual violent crimes
crimes that all contain a sexual element
sexual offences
crimes that often have a financial element and all involve cheating a business or person
crimes of dishonesty
crimes that involve things that society will consider dangerous, drugs and weapons
crimes against society
crimes that involve damage to a property or reckless behavioral
damage and reckless behaviour
- murder
-serious assault
-robbery
non sexual violent crimes
-sexual assault
-rape
sexual offences
-shoplifting
-embezzlement
-fraud
crimes of dishonesty
-drug possesion/drug dealing
-weapons possesion
crimes against society
-vandalism
- wilful fire raising
damage and reckless behaviour
rate of non-sexual violence
high (24% of all crimes)
rate of sexual crimes
low (5% of all crimes)
rate of crimes of dishonesty
high (32% of all crimes)
rates of damage and reckless behaviours
low ( 15% of all crimes)
rates of crimes against society
high (21% of all crimes)
non-sexual crimes of violence large increase
up around 10% in recent years
sexual crimes have had a large increase
up around 15% in recent years
crimes of dishonesty have had a small increase
up around 5% in recent years
crimes against society decreased
fallen 15% in recent years
crimes at near record low
600,000 to less than 300000
damage and reckless behaviour
decreased by 26% in recent years
because of racism
62% of hate crime is race related
because of bigotry
7% of hate crime is religion related
because of homo/biphobia
26% of hate crimes are related to sexual orientation
because of poor people live in more dangerous areas
4x more likely to have a sharp force injury
because of poverty pressures
30x more likely to be murdered
because of alcohol abuse
7x more likely to have alcohol-related facial injury
