ADJUS-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Motor Vehicle Theft, Property Crime, Transnational Crime

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Administration Of Justice
• Course: ADJUS-120
• Professor: sinsel

Document Summary

Crimes can be categorised in different ways: Offences against the person (violent crime) e. g. murder, manslaughter, assaults and robbery. Offences against property (property crime) e. g. stealing, break and enter, burglary, motor vehicle theft, property damage. Other offences (other crime) e. g. drug offences, justice procedure offences, disorderly conduct. Prevalence of different crime changes over time. Need to consider crime rates, rather than number of offences. Violent crime accounts for approximately 20% of crime is australia. The most serious violent crime murder accounts for a very small proportion of reported crime. Homicide rate in australia has been relatively stable since early 1900s to 1950s, after which time it steadily increased, but the magnitude of change is very small. Since 2000s the rate of violent crime has been stable or dropped. As with violent crime, property offences in australia significantly increased in the 1970s and. Property crime levelled out generally by the mid-1900s.