| Genres of Crime: Property Crime | Genres of Crime: White Collar and Green Collar Crime | Genres of Crime: Substance Abuse | Genres of Crime: Cybercrime | Genres of Crime: Political Crime and Terrorism |
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What is a fence?
This is a term for a professional in a semi-legitimate occupation that makes his/her living selling stolen goods
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What is 'both types of crime involve offenders that twist legal rules to their own benefit'?
This is the correlation between white collar and green collar crime
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What are economic, systemic, and pharmacological?
These are the three patterns of drug - related violence
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What is copyright infringement / illegal file sharing?
This is the genre of crime you are committing by uploading or downloading media without paying for it
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What is treason?
This is an act of disloyalty to a nation or state and what Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are being prosecuted for by the US government
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What are knowing the skills to commit profitable burglaries, able to work with a team/team up, having the inside information to commit the crime and knowing buyers/fences for stolen goods?
These are the four key requirements for recognition as being a 'good burglar'
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What is health care fraud / billing for services that were never rendered / upbilling / double charging patients?
This type of white collar crime occurs because health care providers rarely provide itemized billing reports unless forced to
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What is victim - precipitated [homicide]?
This phrase made popular by Luckenbill refers to when a victim of a crime played a direct role in his or her becoming a victim
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What are romance scams / adoption fraud / secret shoppers , etc?
These are three forms of etailing fraud
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What are illegal acts that are intended to undermine an existing government and threaten its survival?
This not only the definition of political crime but also the inherent justification for its occurrence
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What is embezzlement?
This refers to the improper use of property that is entrusted to an individual for his or her own benefit
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What is tax evasion?
This type of white collar crime has been known to occur not only amongst corporate executives but celebrities
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What is drunken comportment?
This phrase refers to the norms related to drinking alcohol in certain situations and settings
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What is a DOS (denial of service) attack?
This a manner of cyberattack in which a network is flooded in order to prevent individuals from accessing the network
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What are political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, human rights violations, state - corporate crime, and state violence?
State - based political crime entails these five basic components
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What is to steal items / make money to support their children?
This is the general reason why women are involved in burglary / theft
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What are the legalist, biocentric and environmental justice?
These are the three perspectives on green collar crime
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What is routine activities theory?
When illegal drug sales predominant legitimate business in an area, this theory may offer a suitable explanation to crime that occurs in that area
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What is phishing/carding or spoofing?
These explain how some identity thieves trick victims into providing their account information directly to them
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What is espionage?
This is defined as the practice of obtaining information about a government, organization or society considered secret without permission
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What is starting a family?
This is a main reason why men would stop being involved in burglary
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What is illegal pollution [as a result of negligence / improper capping of an underwater oil well]?
This type of green crime is what BP was guilty of in 2010
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What is alcohol?
This is the drug that is most commonly linked with violent behavior
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What is cyberbullying?
This is willful, harmful behavior towards another using cell phones and the internet
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What are it's not right, it's not fair, it's your fault and you're evil?
These are the four incremental stages to becoming a political criminal
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[explain]
This is how a ponzi scheme works
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