CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Computer Security, Burglary, Edwin Sutherland
27 Jan 2017
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Economic crimes: acts designed to bring financial gain to the offender, as opposed to violent crimes, which are often conflict-related. Fence: a buyer and seller of stolen merchandise. Street crimes: crime-related acts that prey on the public through theft, damage, and violence. Public attitudes are ambivalent towards property crime (particularly in comparison to violent crimes) -> in general, people don"t care as much about property crimes as they do with violent crimes. Belief that no one is hurt ->there"s often no direct interaction with a victim; insurance usually takes on the cost of property crimes; hard to notice the direct costs of property crimes. Theft, break and enter, arson, and vandalism. Make up more than half of all crimes. Three times as likely as violent crime. Property crime decreased 33% over the course of the last decade. Property crime is seen across all economic classes.
