CRIM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Uniform Crime Reports, Transnational Crime, Money Laundering
4 Apr 2016
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Money laundering: moving the proceeds of criminal activities through a maze of businesses, banks, and brokerage accounts so as to disguise their origin. Transnational crime: profit-seeking criminal activities that involve planning, execution, or victimization that crosses national borders. Victimless crimes: offenses involving a willing and private exchange of illegal goods or services that are in strong demand. Participants do not feel they are being harmed, but these crimes are prosecuted on the grounds that society as a whole is being injured. Political crime: an act, usually done for ideological purposes, that constitutes a threat against the state (such as treason, sedition, or espionage); also describes a criminal act by the state. Cyber crimes: offenses that involve the use of one or more computers. Dark figure of crime: a metaphor that emphasizes the dangerous dimension of crimes that are never reported to the police.
