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Criminology exam answer for Unit 1
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One type of crime in this is hate crime, hate crime is the crimes and actions that are againstsomeone's protected characteristics, this could be their morals or their beliefs as well. Stephen
Lawrence is an example of hate crime, in 1993 a black British teenager from London was
murdered in a racially motivated attack when waiting for a bus, even the police declared the
murder investigation to be inactive and only five of the murderers where imprisoned. The types
of offenders are the individuals that have a strong opposite opinion on certain people, the
victims are anyone who has these special protected characteristics that are more vulnerable to
this crime. In this brief, Matthew is being mistreated and is a victim of hate crime as he is
undergoing physical and mental abuse and violence from his classmates, this will really affect
him. The offenders are the classmates, and he is the victim. This is clearly criminal and deviant
because it is not normal to do that and they are breaking rules. Hate crimes usually go
unreported because of personal reasons such as people may fear that they might be targeted
next if they follow the same characteristics as the victim. They could also be disinterested and
don’t support the victims’ beliefs. Social reasons are a lack of media interest as hate crimes
usually have a low level of public awareness. In this brief, the trainee teacher does not report
this hate crime as she fears that if she speaks up it will fail her teacher training placement.
The other crime is technological crime, this means that the crime involves any sort of
technology such as social media. In this brief, Eva replied to an email she received from her
‘bank’ which she thought was genuine, instead she lost all her money due to this scam
someone has performed, and they have stolen her money. A real example is ‘the great hack’
this is when data was being sold to companies for advertisements, so they were misusing data
and breaking privacy laws. The types of offenders are anyone with basic technology and access
to the internet and are young and are more knowledgeable of technology. The types of victims
are old and young people that don’t understand the internet too much. These are usually
criminal and deviant and have a low level of public awareness because the offenders hide it
easily. In this brief Eva may not report this crime because she feels shame as she feels ‘foolish’
that she fell for this scam they sent her. Other personal reasons are they fear they will be a
victim of it next, a social reason is that they have a lack of knowledge as it is a very complex
crime, so they don’t know how it works.
The consequences of these crimes are the ripple effect, this means that the crime effects not
only the victim, but many others whether it be the family of the victim or the culture. In this
brief, Eva was the first and main victim of this crime as she opened the email, not only does this
affect her but it affects her family as well as they have all lost their money. As well as this the
police priority will have another problem that may be less important than the other cases the
need to deal with. This consequence is a negative pone because it effects a lot of people in the
process and they can be hurt. Another consequence is police prioritization which means they
will focus more on one crime than another. An example is child sex abuse in 2012 as they
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