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crime: Encyclopedia - Crime

A crime in a broad sense is an act that violates a political or moral law of any one person or social grouping. In the narrow sense, a crime is a violation of criminal law; in many nations, there are criminal standards of bad behaviour. However, not all violations of the law are considered crimes, for example most traffic violations or breaches of contract. In many langages, "crime" means "fel ...

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crime: Encyclopedia II - Crime - Definition of crime in general Most people who use this word are not "crime" specialists. Generally the word indicates a social concept of the person, where a specific social act is generally considered a deliberate and conscious choice of the choices known to be available to the user of the word. For instance, historically left-handedness, epileptic fits and emotional tantrums have been considered "crimes". What defines a crime depends on how that crime is viewed. A crime could be viewed from a legal or normative perspective and whether it was in the past or prese ...

A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder, as well as crimes in which violence is the means to an end, such as robbery. Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons. With the exception of rape (which accounts for 6% of all violent crimes),

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime scene

A crime scene is a location where an illegal act took place, and comprises the area from which most of the physical evidence is retrieved by forensic scientists. A crime scene is a location wherein evidence of a crime may be located. It is not necessarily the location the crime took place. Indeed, there are primary, secondary and often tertiary crime scenes. For instance, the police may use a warrant to search an offender's home. Even though the offender did not commit the crime at that location evidence of the crime may be found ther ...

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime science

Crime science is the study of crime, rather than just the offenders, as happens in other branches of criminology, in order to provide ways and means to prevent, detect and solve crimes. It involves a number of functional disciplines and often draws on the fields of statistics, environmental design, forensics, policing, sociology as well as many other sciences to analyse crimes, both at an individual as well as a collective level. Related articles include: Crime scene investigation Crime prevention through

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime mapping

Crime mapping is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Mapping crime, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allows crime analysts to identify crime hot spots, along with other trends and patterns. GIS also allows analysts to overlay other datasets such as census demographics, locations of pawn shops, schools, etc., to better understand the underlying causes of crime and help law enforcement administrators to devise strategies to deal with the problem. GIS is also useful for law enforcement operations, such as alloca ...

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime index

Crime indexes are generated to analyze crime statistics. The most common source of such statistics are records reported to the police. Critics do not feel that crime indexes are particularly useful as they only list reported crimes. This makes it difficult to know whether a "10% increase" has any real meaning. An alternative source of data is the victimization survey, usually conducted via annual interviews with households, whose occupants are asked whether they have been the victim of crime. Critics note that surveys are generally unreliable, especially w ...

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crime: Encyclopedia - Computer crime

Computer Crime, E-Crime, Hi-Tech Crime or Electronic Crime is a where a computer is the target of a crime or is the means adopted to commit a crime. Most of these crimes are not new. Criminals simply devise different ways to undertake standard criminal activities such as fraud, theft, blackmail, forgery, and embezzlement using the new medium, often involving the internet. Computer crime - Discussion. A computer can be the target of crime, for example, when a person intends to steal info ...

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Computer crime - Discussion

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime statistics

Crime statistics provide a statistical measure of the level, or amount, of crime that is prevalent in societies. Crime statistics are gathered and reported by many countries and are of interest to several international organisations, including Interpol and the United Nations. Law enforcement agencies in some countries, such as the FBI in the United States, publish crime indices, which are ...

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crime: Encyclopedia - Crime boss

A crime boss refers to someone in charge of a criminal organization. He almost always has command over his subordinates, and his profits come from his men's criminal endeavors that he usually orders himself. Crime bosses are often highly respected and/or feared by their men. A crime boss can refer to a person who is in charge of a small crew of amateur criminals, to a highly respected boss of a very organized and profitable outfit, eg. Mafia. Usually, the primary goal is to profit as much as possible from all his men lower down the ch

crime: Encyclopedia - Consensual crime

A consensual or victimless crime is behavior that is considered a crime, even though all of those involved in the act give consent, and no third parties suffer as a direct result. Political leaders may justify criminalizing such behavior because of indirect effects on third parties, or because of offense to cultural norms, or because the law assumes that one of the parties to the ac ...

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crime: Encyclopedia - Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred. It has several sub-genres, including detective fiction (including the whodunnit), legal thriller, courtroom drama, and hard-boiled fiction. Crime fiction - History of crime fiction. Main article: History of crime fiction Crim ...

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Crime fiction - Crime fiction and mainstream fiction

Crime fiction - High art versus popular art

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime rate

Crime rate is a measure of the rate of occurrence of crimes committed in a given area and time. Most commonly, crime rate is given as the number of crimes committed among a given number of persons. Often, the type of crime is exactly specified. Thus, a crime rate might be given as the number of murders (or rapes, thefts, etc.) per 100,000 persons per year within a city. Crime rate is a useful statistic for many purposes, such as evaluating the effectiveness of crime prevention measures or the relative safety of a particular cit ...

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Crime rate - World Crime Rate data

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступление и наказание) is a novel written in 1866 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Along with War and Peace, this novel is among the best-known and most influential Russian novels of all time. The novel expresses Dostoevsky's religious and existentialist views, with a predominant focus on the theme of attaining salvation through suffering. Crime and Punishment - Plot. The novel portrays the haphazardly planned murder of a miser ...

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Crime and Punishment - Characters

crime: Encyclopedia - Crimes and Misdemeanors

Crimes and Misdemeanors is a film written and directed by Woody Allen. It stars Woody Allen (as Cliff), Martin Landau (as Judah), Mia Farrow (as Halley), Anjelica Huston (as Dolores) and Alan Alda (as Lester). The film was met with critical acclaim and was nominated for the following Academy Awards: Woody Allen, for Best Director. Martin Landau, for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Woody Allen, for Be ...

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crime: Encyclopedia - Victimless crime

A victimless or consensual crime is behavior which is forbidden by law, yet which does not directly harm nor violate the rights of anyone. Examples include: Consuming or selling alcohol (prohibition) Consuming or selling marijuana and other banned substances (illegal drugs) Engaging in sex for money (prostitution) Engaging in certain types of sexual acts (sodomy law) Engaging in sex with certain adults (incest) Consuming, selling or producing pornography Betting ...

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Victimless crime - Proponents for reform

Victimless crime - Proponents of status quo

crime: Encyclopedia - Crime of passion

A crime of passion, in popular usage, refers to a crime in which the perpetrator commits a crime, specially assault or murder, against a spouse or other loved one due to sudden jealous rage or heartbreak rather than as a premeditated crime. A typical crime of passion, for example, might involve a jealous husband who discovers his wife has been cheating on him and proceeds to murder her and possibly the man she was involved with. While the concept of the crime of passion is not officially recognized in law, it is sometimes used ...

crime: Encyclopedia - White-collar crime

White-collar crimes (a term coined by Edwin Sutherland in 1939) or business crimes are those crimes specifically performed by using paperwork (or computers). They include fraud and bankruptcy fraud, bribery, insider trading, embezzlement, computer crime, medical crime, public corruption, identity theft, pension fund crime, RICO crimes, consumer fraud, occupational crime, securities fraud, financial fraud, and forgery. Since legitimate paperwork is handled by white collar employees, the name was chosen by analogy. Anacho-capitalists conside ...

crime: Encyclopedia - War crime

A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. Every violation of the law of war in an inter-state conflict is a war crime, while violations in internal conflicts don't necessarily amount to war crimes. War crimes include violations of established protections of the laws of war, but also include failures to adhere to norms of procedure and rules of battle, such as attacking those displaying a flag of truce, or using tha ...

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