SOC 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Class, Victimless Crime, Organized Crime
Document Summary
Crimes against the person: direct violence against a person, violent crime: actions involving force, hate crime: a criminal act against a person or property by an offender motivated by racial bias. Occupational (white collar) crime: illegal acts committed by people in the course of their employment or financial affairs. Organized crime: business operation that supplies illegal good and services for profit. Corporate crime: illegal acts committed by corporate employees on behalf of the corp and with its support. Most crime statistics come from the uniform crime report (ucr: published by fbi since the 30s, based on info from law enforcement agencies. National crime victimization survey: random survey of over 100,000 households, over 60% of all crimes are not reported to police. Age: typically offenders are 18-25yrs old, age crime curve: crime rate rises during adolescence and peaks in the 20s. Victims of street crime: men, youth, minority, low income.
