Indicate some of the ways that white-collar crime is different from violent and property crime.
What will be an ideal response?
? While violent and property crime offenders usually use physical means to illegally access a particular location, white-collar criminals usually have legal access to the scene.? When offenders commit property and violent crimes, the victims of those crimes are generally readily identifiable. Victims of white-collar crime are often unknown or unidentifiable.
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The Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire found that about ______ of sextortion victims knew the offenders in some way and 40% met them online.
A. 10% B. 60% C. 20% D. 4%
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. The “mental part” of a crime is commonly termed actus reus. 2. Proof of the defendant’s general intent typically is inferred from the nature of the act and the surrounding circumstances. 3. A general intent is a mental determination to accomplish a specific result. 4. The Model Penal Code established recklessly as the most serious category of criminal intent.
Which of the following is NOT one of the FBI's justifications for emphasizing the Part I offenses?
a. Those offenses often come of the attention of the police. b. Those offenses are the easiest for the police to solve. c. Those offenses are relatively frequent in occurrence. d. Those offenses are regarded by the public as very serious.
Which of the following was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Payne v. Tennessee in 1991?
A. It is cruel and unusual punishment to execute the intellectually challenged. B. State death penalty statutes are constitutional even when statistics indicate that they have been applied in racially biased ways. C. New evidence of innocence is no reason for a federal court to order a new state trial in the absence of constitutional grounds. D. Judges and juries may consider victim-impact statements in their sentencing decisions.