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% of murders in U.S. that involve firearms
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- 0.0279271 per 1,000 people
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Theft
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- Theft/larceny is typically defined as the taking of almost anything of value without the consent of the owner, with the intent to permanently deprive him or her of the value of the property taken.
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Grand larceny
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- Theft of money or property of substantial value, punished as a felony.
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Petit larceny
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- Theft of a small amount of money or property, punished as a misdemeanor.
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Burglary
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- Entering a home by force, threat or deception with the intention of reselling stolen merchandise. May be considered "breaking & entering" does not HAVE to use force
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Robbery
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- taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care custody or control by force or threat or violence by putting the victim in fear
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fence
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- a buyer and seller of stolen merchandise
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Fraud
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–Misrepresenting a fact in a way that causes a deceived victim to give money or property to the offender
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Confidence game
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- a swindle set up to separate victims from their money, many involving a get-rich-quick scheme, often with illegal overtones so that the victim will be afraid or embarrassed to call the police.
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Swindle
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- A white collar crime in which people use their institutional or business position to trick others out of their money.
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Embezzlement
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- a type of larceny in which someone who is trusted with property fraudulently converts it to their own use or for the use of others.
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White collar crime
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- any act that uses deceit, deception, or dishonesty to carry out criminal enterprise
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Corporate crime
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- powerful institutions or their representatives willfully violate the laws that restrain these institutions from doing social harm or require them to do social good.
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Organized crime
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- illegal activities of people and organizations whose acknowledged purpose is to profit through illegitimate business enterprise.
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Chiseling
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– using illegal means to cheat an organization, its consumers, or both on a regular basis
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securities fraud
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- a crime in which securities investing or trading laws have been violated.
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Churning
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- Repeated, excessive, and unnecessary buying and selling of a clients stock.
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front running
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- Placing brokers personal orders ahead of customers large order to profit from the market effects of the trade
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bucketing
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- skimming customer trading profits by falsifying trade information
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influence peddling
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- using one’s institutional position to grant favors and sell information to which ones co-conspirators are not entitled
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Employee fraud
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- White collar crime that involves individuals use of their positions to embezzle company funds or appropriate company property for themselves
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Client fraud
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- White collar crime that is theft by an economic client from an organization that advances credit to its clients or reimburses them for services rendered
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What countries/ethnic groups do major organized crime syndicates represent?
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-Eastern Europe..??
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Public order crime
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- Behavior that is outlawed because it threatens the general well being of society and challenges its accepted moral principles
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Sexual deviance types
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- Paraphillia = bizarre or abnormal sexual practices involving recurrent sexual urges focused on
➢ non human objects ➢ humiliation or the experience of receiving or giving pain ➢ children or others who can not grant consent |
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Prostitution
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- granting non marital sexual access, established by mutual agreement of the prostitutes, their clients, and their employers for remuneration.
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Where is prostitution legal
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- Holland, Australia, Sweden, Brazil. ( Rhode island is legal but only out of a private home, and some counties in Nevada allow brothels) other wise in all US states it is illegal
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