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WJEC Criminology Unit 1 exam
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AC 1.1- Different types of crimeWhite-Collar Crime
One type of crime is White- Collar crime. They are non-violent crimes committed for financial gain.
People of high social status working in commercial employment are usually the offenders of these
crimes and potential victims can be people who are invested in the Ponzi scheme- an investment
fraud system that pays investors with funds that are collected from new investors instead of profits
and can affect many peoples futures- retirements. There are 3 types of White-collar crimes that can
be committed- one is corporate crime. Corporate crimes are committed by an employee of a
business for financial gain of the company. The Thalidomide case study is an example of this as
companies were still producing and selling a nausea medicine for pregnant women even after there
was evidence that the medicine was causing babies to be born with birth defects, all to make as
much money from it. Organised crime is the second type where activities are planned and controlled
by powerful groups and carried out on large scales. The Mafia are an example of this as they commit
many crimes like drug dealing, prostitution, illegal gambling, assassination, all for money.
Professional crime is the third example- where some crimes are people profession and their primary
source of income. These can include major drug dealers, bank robbers, human traffickers, and
prostitutes.
Public awareness of this is low because it's hard to prosecute so it's not very often that it will appear
on the news for example however is it a criminal act as you are taking money from investors to use
as your own and committing fraud. Or it can be seen as deviant as prostitution doesn’t have any laws
against it, it’s just looked down on by many people in society.
Moral crime
Moral crime is crime against someone’s morals and is seen as a victimless crime but often the victim
can be the offender and victim. They are sometimes committed because people don’t think the laws
should exist, so break them. Examples of moral crime can include prostitution, vagrancy, illegal drug
taking and assisted suicide and offenders of this can be anyone in society, sometimes it can depend
on the persons circumstances. An example of a moral crime that is well known to the world is Nelson
Mandela. Mandela was imprisoned because of breaking apartheid rules in South Africa because he
didn’t believe it was right. He was offered release but had to admit to the ‘crimes’ he committed,
and he wouldn’t do that otherwise he was accepting the apartheid so he decided to stay in prison.
I think public awareness of moral crime is quite low because it happens so often and all around us in
society, but people don’t acknowledge that they are crimes. These crimes are usually considered as
deviant but can also be seen as criminal- in most countries assisted suicide is illegal so that would be
criminal to be part of that act, but consensual prostitution would be seen as deviant because there
are no laws against it, it’s just looked down on in society.
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