TYPE OF Definition Examples Offender Victim Public Awareness/ Criminal/Deviant
CRIME Scale
White-collar - Non – violent and utilitarian - (P) Bernie Madoff - Work in - Retired workers - High scale crime - Criminal as it
Crime (done for financial gain). – Ponzi Scheme – commercial - Those with as it affects a lot breaks the law
- Professional - Crime sentenced to 150 employment money to invest of people (Fraud breaks
committed by a respectable years. Scheme - Higher social - People - Low public the Fraud Act
person with a good was worth about status introduced to awareness – 2006)
profession who acts for $64.8 billion - Can be part schemes by nonviolent so less - Deviant –
themselves. EG; smuggling, - (O) Kray Twins – of an family and media coverage Affects a lot of
tax fraud East End of organised friends - Hard to prosecute people and
- Organised – Crime London, partook group due to intelligent breaks their
committed by a powerful in murder, arson offenders human rights
group on a large scale. EG; and armed - Respectable
trafficking, drugs, armed robbery offenders
robbery - (C) Volkswagen
- Cooperate – Crime cheated on
committed by emissions test
company/business. EG; tax and broke Clean
evasion, health and safety Air Act
violations
AC1.1
CRIME Scale
White-collar - Non – violent and utilitarian - (P) Bernie Madoff - Work in - Retired workers - High scale crime - Criminal as it
Crime (done for financial gain). – Ponzi Scheme – commercial - Those with as it affects a lot breaks the law
- Professional - Crime sentenced to 150 employment money to invest of people (Fraud breaks
committed by a respectable years. Scheme - Higher social - People - Low public the Fraud Act
person with a good was worth about status introduced to awareness – 2006)
profession who acts for $64.8 billion - Can be part schemes by nonviolent so less - Deviant –
themselves. EG; smuggling, - (O) Kray Twins – of an family and media coverage Affects a lot of
tax fraud East End of organised friends - Hard to prosecute people and
- Organised – Crime London, partook group due to intelligent breaks their
committed by a powerful in murder, arson offenders human rights
group on a large scale. EG; and armed - Respectable
trafficking, drugs, armed robbery offenders
robbery - (C) Volkswagen
- Cooperate – Crime cheated on
committed by emissions test
company/business. EG; tax and broke Clean
evasion, health and safety Air Act
violations
AC1.1
