CRIM 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: White-Collar Crime, Public Intoxication, Property Crime
18 Oct 2018
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Crim 12000-001: ex: if you get a grant for research, instead using it to gamble. If working at mcdonalds, stealing money from the drawer could be property crimes, or could be occupational: ex: tax evasion, embezzlement, insider trading. The pinto issue, engines were in the back of the car and ford didn"t want to stop producing this vehicle, even minor fender benders causing explosions. In 2014, there were 32 murders, 180 rapes, 1523 aggravated assaults, and 723 robberies: calculate the crime rates for each crime type, murders: 7. 31, rape: 41. 1, aggravated assault: 347. 7, robbery: 165. 1, is crime rising, no. Violent and property crime rates are trending downwards and have been since the. It is difficult to measure the total amount of crime in america: not all crime is visible to law enforcement, the dark figure of crime: a metaphor that emphasizes that all crimes are note reported to the police.
