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fearing crime changes how people lead their lives: extra locks on doors, don't go out at night, suspicious of strangers in neighborhood
more crime in urban areas than suburban and rural
more crime in poor neighborhoods than wealthy |
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crimes against people
crimes against property
white-collar crime
victimless crimes
crimes against government |
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acts that threaten, hurt, or end a person's life
aka violent crimes ex: murder, rape, assault (#1)
most use a weapon
homicide, murder, manslaughter
killing for self defense is legal |
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| an attack on a person for the purpose of causing injury to that person's body |
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| killing by accident or in a fit or rage |
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more often than other crimes
larceny, robbery, burglary, arson, vandalism |
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taking anything of value that belongs to another person without using violence
ex. shoplifting, stealing a car |
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| take something of value from another person by force or by threat of violence |
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when a person breaks into a building and plans to do something illegal
may or may not involve stealing |
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| act of setting fire to someone's property (house, factory, store) on purpose |
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purposefully damaging property
ex. breaking windows, painting graffiti |
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illegal but nonviolent acts by white-collar (professional) workers for personal or business gain
fraud, embezzlement, stealing company secrets, not paying your taxes |
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| taking someone else's property or money by cheating or lying |
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stealing money that has been trusted to your care
ex. when a bank employee put other people's money into his account |
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drug use and gambling
acts that hurt no one except the people who commit them
go against common values
people believe they hurt society as a whole |
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| crimes against government |
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| betrayal of one's country by helping its enemies or by making war against it |
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people or groups of people uses, or say they will uses, violent acts in order to get what they want from government or society
kidnapped and murdered people, hijacked airplanes, set off bombs |
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poverty
rapid social change
poor parenting
drug abuse
permissive courts
not enough money for police
violence in media
no single cause |
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when people can't earn enough money to support themselves and their family
feel like society isn't doing them any good so they are more likely to break society's rules |
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many people have to learn new job skills or move to different parts of the country
hard to get used to changes
people may lose sense of what is right or wrong |
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unhappy family life can make a person much more likely to break laws
children who have been hurt or neglected by their parents may suffer great emotional pain
hard to control their behavior as adults |
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| committing crimes when under the influence of drugs |
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| too few criminals are sent to prison and those who do go to prison are let out too soon and go right back to committing crimes |
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| not enough money for police |
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| more money should be given to police departments so that more police officers can be hired |
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| tv shows, movies, computer games show gangsters, police and soldiers hurting and killing people |
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| no single cause can explain out crime problem |
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