Violent Crime Definition

A group that operates, regardless of structure, illegally and desires power, money, and influence.

Organized Crime Definition

No threat or use of violence is exercised but property is destroyed or stolen

Property Crime Definition

Financial crimes that are committed by businesses or government professionals. These crimes usually lack violence but are deceptive or violate trust.

White Collar Crime Definition

People choose to commit an action even though it violates the law

Consensual Crime Definition (Victimless Crime)

- Violent Crime
- Property Crime
- White-Collar Crime
- Organized Crime
- Consenual Crime

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Study of etiology, prevention, control, and treatment of crime/delinquency, including detecting and measuring; crime, legislation, criminal law practice, law enforcement, judicial, and the correctional system.

Criminology

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8.2 Types of Crime

Possible Placements for Criminology:
- Under Social Sciences, as a "root node"
- Under Sociology, its current location, as in it' s not a discipline


Debate on the Placement of Criminology:

Types of Crime

Criminology References

- Classical
- Positivist/Biological
- Economic
- Psychological
- Sociological

Major Criminological Schools of Thought

How Crime is Measured in the USA

- Deviant actions violate norms, picking your nose in public
- Crimes violate laws which are codified norms
- Not all deviant actions are crimes but all crimes are deviant actions

Difference between Crime and Deviance

- The Criminal Justice system is anything related to the arrest, prosecution, defense, imprisonment and supervised release of criminals

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