Crime taxonomy
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1. 66% of all aggravated robberies are street/public robberies and that most of these robberies occur in
central business areas and the black mega townships
2. 89% of both assault (GBH) and common assault cases, 82% people who knew each other.
of murders, and 76% of rapes in the sample that was
studied, involved
3. 2012/2013 crime figures are compared to 2011/2012, trio by 5,04%.
crimes (robbery at business premises, robbery at
residential premises, carjacking and truck-hijacking)
increased
4. According to which crime categories does the Department economic, sexual, narcotics, aggressive, and other crimes
of Correctional Services categorise offenders?
5. American crime statistics reveal that serious crimes murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
include
6. Australian crime statistics list ..... as serious crimes. homicide, assault, sexual assault, robbery and kidnapping
7. Car hijackings and house robberies most frequently occur in the more affl uent suburbs of Gauteng (e.g. Sandton, Honeydew,
Douglasdale, Brooklyn and Garsfontein
8. Cash-in-transit robberies are linked to one of the following aggravated robbery
crime categories:
9. Contact crime frequently affects victims in one or a (+) death as an immediate or delayed result of the degree of violence
combination of the following ways used
(+) injuries of various degrees, including permanent, disabling injuries
(+) psychological trauma, which may also be of a permanent nature
(+) loss of and/or damage to property
10. CRIME According to Stevens and Snyman from a juridical approach, is a transgression of the law and if the
transgressor is found guilty by the court, the state may impose
punishment.
11. CRIME CLASSIFICATION In Criminology, crime classification refers to the division or
arrangement of crime data into specific classes. Classification is based
on the fact that data on certain crimes show definite underlying
similarities
12. Crime classification is necessary to determine a) common factors shared by certain crimes
b) a data record of types of crimes
c) activities that constitute crimes
d) answers as to why people commit particular
crimes
e) crime prediction
13. "Crime classification'' refers to one of the following the partition or arrangement of crime data into segments
options: representative of legal definitions of criminal acts, according to
recorded crime statistics
14. CRIME PATTERNS describe the incidence of the different types of crime in a specific
year.
15. Crimes heavily dependent on police action for detection illegal possession of fi rearms and ammunition, drug-related crime,
include driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs
16. Crimes such as selected civil claims, missing persons, priority
nuclear crimes and weapons of mass destruction are
perceived as which one of the following crimes?
,17. CRIME STATISTICS numbers that comprise all the information regarding crime, scientifically arranged and
tabulated in order to give a total picture of the crime
problem.
18. Crime statistics for England and Wales homicide, general violent and sexual crimes, serious wounding, common assault, robbery,
reveal that ..... are perceived as serious vandalism and drug offences
crime phenomena.
19. CRIME TRENDS the increases and decreases in the different types of crime in a specific year.
20. Detailed docket, geographical and to alcohol and other substance abuse and are mainly associated with informal
timeline settlements in mega-townships
analyses of contact crimes corroborate
that at least two-thirds of all contact
crimes are strongly related
21. Different methods for and approaches (+) Bonger's classification:
to crime economic, violent, sexual and political crimes
classification
(+) Stumpfl 's classification:
heavy and light criminality, crimes committed at an early and late age, conflict and
habitual crimes
(+) Carey's classification:
violent crimes, conventional and professional crimes, political crimes, crimes against the
social order and white-collar crime
(+) Schafer's life trend typology:
occasional criminals, habitual criminals, abnormal criminals and conventional criminals
(+) Reid's typology: violent crimes, property crimes, business crimes, organised crime and
terrorism
22. Efficient crime classification should (+) uniform criteria,
encompass the following (+) comprehensiveness,
(+) simplicity, no ambiguity,
(+) durability,
(+) feasibility
(+) applicability.
Prospective crime classifiers should, however, remain aware of the fact that the
parameters of certain forms of crime are still changing and that crime classification
in such instances should proceed with caution
23. Failure to classify and/or recognise could promote rigid and ignorant perceptions of this type of crime among criminological
conservation crime as a unique crime scholars and conservation officials. Insight into conservation and conservation crime
category issues will therefore be impaired and underdeveloped.
- Herbig
24. The following factors are strongly alcohol and other substance abuse
related to all contact crimes.
25. Inhumanly severe penalties for offences Saudi Arabia
occur in which one of the following
countries?
26. Interpretation problems may exist = no distinction is made between types of "sexual" offences/crimes.
regarding the DCS's "broad" crime = the type of crime recorded in the DCS's file, as well as on the offender's prison identity
categories. card, will merely stipulate "sexual crime(s)" with no further specification.
= unless an offender's SAPS 69 accompanies the offender to prison and is placed in the
DCS's file system, little is known about the nature, extent and circumstances of the
crime(s).
,27. Legal classifications of crime and criminal codes are a society society, depending on what it perceives as socially damaging,
established by and to serve as a stern threat to members of that society. (Bartol & Bartol
2008:33).
28. Most countries perceive the following crimes as (+) terrorism,
immediate social and criminal threats and problems (+) missing persons,
(+) human and child trafcking,
(+) cyber-crimes,
(+) environmental crimes,
(+) certain economic crimes,
(+) drug-related offences,
(+) murder/homicide,
(+) sexual crimes,
(+) crimes against and perpetrated by children (i.e. child abuse, school
violence),
(+) property relatedcrimes
29. Most South African offenders are violent and aggressive, as opposed to
America where the majority of offences are neither serious nor violent
30. Murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault are America
perceived as priority crimes in one of the following
countries:
31. Of all cases reported to the police, about 76% were (+) suspects were unknown;
closed as undetected. (+) no arrest had been made and that the available resources could not
trace and detect the suspects in question
(+) The implication is that there is a high probability that perpetrators may
not be arrested and this may encourage perpetrators to commit more
crime.
(+) On the other hand this may also discourage victims from reporting
cases
32. Post-1994, the South African Crime Prevention Plan (+) crimes involving firearms: e.g. armed robbery
identified the following national priority crimes (Maree (+) white-collar crimes:
2004:9): e.g. corruption, bribery, blackmail, embezzlement, computer crime, tax
evasion, fraud, and theft by people in responsible positions
(+) crimes against women and children:
e.g. rape and domestic violence
(+) violence related to intergroup and political differences:
e.g. xenophobia and political killings (with political motives)
(+) vehicle theft and hijackings
(+) paramilitary activities
33. Priority crimes are determined by consulting various crime information sources,
for example official crime data from the police, judicial and prison
statistics, crime surveys, self-reporting studies and media reports.
34. Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU) (+) created on 23 March 2003 by Presidential Proclamation
(+) specialist prosecution unit of the National Prosecuting Services (NPS)
(+) Unit manages and directs investigation and prosecution of priority
crimes
35. The Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU) is a specialist National Prosecuting Services
unit located within the ...
, 36. Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (+) proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction
(PCLU) manages (+) proliferation of conventional (military) weapons (e.g. transferring military equipment without
and directs investigation and the requisite conveyance permits)
prosecution of the following (+) all forms of terrorism
priority crimes: (+) mercenary and foreign military assistance and activities (plots to overthrow a government)
(+) the Statute of Rome (International Criminal Court)
(+) intelligence-related activities
(+) prosecutions arising from the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC)
(+) the Missing Persons' Project (i.e. persons who disappeared as reported by the TRC,
excavations and exhumations)
(+) selected civil claims
(+) NPS, mutual legal assistance and extradition
(+) legal research and furnish legal opinions
37. purpose and function of crime to gain an impression of various types of crime, permitting crime to be broken down into
classification particular groups to reveal primary commonalities and ensure a richer understanding of crime
typologies. Familiarity with particular crimes is vital for detecting, combating and preventing
them.
38. reasons why complaints may be (+) Failure of witnesses to testify
incomplete (+) Acquittal of suspects
39. SAPS distinguishes between the (+) Contact crimes:
following serious crime types robbery (common and aggravating), rape, attempted murder, assault (common), murder,
assault (GBH), indecent assault
(+) Contact-related crimes:
(+) Property-related crimes:
burglary at residential premises, burglary at non-residential premises, theft of motor vehicles
or from motor vehicles
(+) Crimes heavily dependent on police action for detection:
illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, drug-related crime, driving under the influence
of alcohol, and drugs
(+) Other serious crimes: all theft not mentioned elsewhere, (including theft of cell phones and
garden tools), commercial crime, and shoplifting
(+) Subcategories of aggravated robbery: carjacking, truck-jacking, cash-in- transit robberies,
bank robbery, robbery at residential premises, and robbery at business premises
40. Social contact crimes generally between people who know each other
occur
41. Social contact crimes include sexual offences, for example rape, assault (whether GBH, common or indecent), murder and
attempted
murder.
42. Socially motivated contact crimes murder, rape and assault
include which of the following
crimes?
43. SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME (+) economic,
CATEGORIES According to the (+) aggressive,
Department of Correctional (+) sexual,
Service (DCS) include: (+) narcotics
(+) other crimes.
44. SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME (+) contact crimes,
CATEGORIES According to the (+) contact-related crimes,
SAPS national broad categories of (+) property-related crimes,
crime include: (+) crimes heavily dependent on police action for detection
(+) other serious crimes.
45. Subcategories of aggravated carjacking, truck-jacking, cash-in- transit robberies, bank robbery, robbery at residential
robbery: premises, and robbery at business premises
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1. 66% of all aggravated robberies are street/public robberies and that most of these robberies occur in
central business areas and the black mega townships
2. 89% of both assault (GBH) and common assault cases, 82% people who knew each other.
of murders, and 76% of rapes in the sample that was
studied, involved
3. 2012/2013 crime figures are compared to 2011/2012, trio by 5,04%.
crimes (robbery at business premises, robbery at
residential premises, carjacking and truck-hijacking)
increased
4. According to which crime categories does the Department economic, sexual, narcotics, aggressive, and other crimes
of Correctional Services categorise offenders?
5. American crime statistics reveal that serious crimes murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
include
6. Australian crime statistics list ..... as serious crimes. homicide, assault, sexual assault, robbery and kidnapping
7. Car hijackings and house robberies most frequently occur in the more affl uent suburbs of Gauteng (e.g. Sandton, Honeydew,
Douglasdale, Brooklyn and Garsfontein
8. Cash-in-transit robberies are linked to one of the following aggravated robbery
crime categories:
9. Contact crime frequently affects victims in one or a (+) death as an immediate or delayed result of the degree of violence
combination of the following ways used
(+) injuries of various degrees, including permanent, disabling injuries
(+) psychological trauma, which may also be of a permanent nature
(+) loss of and/or damage to property
10. CRIME According to Stevens and Snyman from a juridical approach, is a transgression of the law and if the
transgressor is found guilty by the court, the state may impose
punishment.
11. CRIME CLASSIFICATION In Criminology, crime classification refers to the division or
arrangement of crime data into specific classes. Classification is based
on the fact that data on certain crimes show definite underlying
similarities
12. Crime classification is necessary to determine a) common factors shared by certain crimes
b) a data record of types of crimes
c) activities that constitute crimes
d) answers as to why people commit particular
crimes
e) crime prediction
13. "Crime classification'' refers to one of the following the partition or arrangement of crime data into segments
options: representative of legal definitions of criminal acts, according to
recorded crime statistics
14. CRIME PATTERNS describe the incidence of the different types of crime in a specific
year.
15. Crimes heavily dependent on police action for detection illegal possession of fi rearms and ammunition, drug-related crime,
include driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs
16. Crimes such as selected civil claims, missing persons, priority
nuclear crimes and weapons of mass destruction are
perceived as which one of the following crimes?
,17. CRIME STATISTICS numbers that comprise all the information regarding crime, scientifically arranged and
tabulated in order to give a total picture of the crime
problem.
18. Crime statistics for England and Wales homicide, general violent and sexual crimes, serious wounding, common assault, robbery,
reveal that ..... are perceived as serious vandalism and drug offences
crime phenomena.
19. CRIME TRENDS the increases and decreases in the different types of crime in a specific year.
20. Detailed docket, geographical and to alcohol and other substance abuse and are mainly associated with informal
timeline settlements in mega-townships
analyses of contact crimes corroborate
that at least two-thirds of all contact
crimes are strongly related
21. Different methods for and approaches (+) Bonger's classification:
to crime economic, violent, sexual and political crimes
classification
(+) Stumpfl 's classification:
heavy and light criminality, crimes committed at an early and late age, conflict and
habitual crimes
(+) Carey's classification:
violent crimes, conventional and professional crimes, political crimes, crimes against the
social order and white-collar crime
(+) Schafer's life trend typology:
occasional criminals, habitual criminals, abnormal criminals and conventional criminals
(+) Reid's typology: violent crimes, property crimes, business crimes, organised crime and
terrorism
22. Efficient crime classification should (+) uniform criteria,
encompass the following (+) comprehensiveness,
(+) simplicity, no ambiguity,
(+) durability,
(+) feasibility
(+) applicability.
Prospective crime classifiers should, however, remain aware of the fact that the
parameters of certain forms of crime are still changing and that crime classification
in such instances should proceed with caution
23. Failure to classify and/or recognise could promote rigid and ignorant perceptions of this type of crime among criminological
conservation crime as a unique crime scholars and conservation officials. Insight into conservation and conservation crime
category issues will therefore be impaired and underdeveloped.
- Herbig
24. The following factors are strongly alcohol and other substance abuse
related to all contact crimes.
25. Inhumanly severe penalties for offences Saudi Arabia
occur in which one of the following
countries?
26. Interpretation problems may exist = no distinction is made between types of "sexual" offences/crimes.
regarding the DCS's "broad" crime = the type of crime recorded in the DCS's file, as well as on the offender's prison identity
categories. card, will merely stipulate "sexual crime(s)" with no further specification.
= unless an offender's SAPS 69 accompanies the offender to prison and is placed in the
DCS's file system, little is known about the nature, extent and circumstances of the
crime(s).
,27. Legal classifications of crime and criminal codes are a society society, depending on what it perceives as socially damaging,
established by and to serve as a stern threat to members of that society. (Bartol & Bartol
2008:33).
28. Most countries perceive the following crimes as (+) terrorism,
immediate social and criminal threats and problems (+) missing persons,
(+) human and child trafcking,
(+) cyber-crimes,
(+) environmental crimes,
(+) certain economic crimes,
(+) drug-related offences,
(+) murder/homicide,
(+) sexual crimes,
(+) crimes against and perpetrated by children (i.e. child abuse, school
violence),
(+) property relatedcrimes
29. Most South African offenders are violent and aggressive, as opposed to
America where the majority of offences are neither serious nor violent
30. Murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault are America
perceived as priority crimes in one of the following
countries:
31. Of all cases reported to the police, about 76% were (+) suspects were unknown;
closed as undetected. (+) no arrest had been made and that the available resources could not
trace and detect the suspects in question
(+) The implication is that there is a high probability that perpetrators may
not be arrested and this may encourage perpetrators to commit more
crime.
(+) On the other hand this may also discourage victims from reporting
cases
32. Post-1994, the South African Crime Prevention Plan (+) crimes involving firearms: e.g. armed robbery
identified the following national priority crimes (Maree (+) white-collar crimes:
2004:9): e.g. corruption, bribery, blackmail, embezzlement, computer crime, tax
evasion, fraud, and theft by people in responsible positions
(+) crimes against women and children:
e.g. rape and domestic violence
(+) violence related to intergroup and political differences:
e.g. xenophobia and political killings (with political motives)
(+) vehicle theft and hijackings
(+) paramilitary activities
33. Priority crimes are determined by consulting various crime information sources,
for example official crime data from the police, judicial and prison
statistics, crime surveys, self-reporting studies and media reports.
34. Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU) (+) created on 23 March 2003 by Presidential Proclamation
(+) specialist prosecution unit of the National Prosecuting Services (NPS)
(+) Unit manages and directs investigation and prosecution of priority
crimes
35. The Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (PCLU) is a specialist National Prosecuting Services
unit located within the ...
, 36. Priority Crimes Litigation Unit (+) proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction
(PCLU) manages (+) proliferation of conventional (military) weapons (e.g. transferring military equipment without
and directs investigation and the requisite conveyance permits)
prosecution of the following (+) all forms of terrorism
priority crimes: (+) mercenary and foreign military assistance and activities (plots to overthrow a government)
(+) the Statute of Rome (International Criminal Court)
(+) intelligence-related activities
(+) prosecutions arising from the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC)
(+) the Missing Persons' Project (i.e. persons who disappeared as reported by the TRC,
excavations and exhumations)
(+) selected civil claims
(+) NPS, mutual legal assistance and extradition
(+) legal research and furnish legal opinions
37. purpose and function of crime to gain an impression of various types of crime, permitting crime to be broken down into
classification particular groups to reveal primary commonalities and ensure a richer understanding of crime
typologies. Familiarity with particular crimes is vital for detecting, combating and preventing
them.
38. reasons why complaints may be (+) Failure of witnesses to testify
incomplete (+) Acquittal of suspects
39. SAPS distinguishes between the (+) Contact crimes:
following serious crime types robbery (common and aggravating), rape, attempted murder, assault (common), murder,
assault (GBH), indecent assault
(+) Contact-related crimes:
(+) Property-related crimes:
burglary at residential premises, burglary at non-residential premises, theft of motor vehicles
or from motor vehicles
(+) Crimes heavily dependent on police action for detection:
illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, drug-related crime, driving under the influence
of alcohol, and drugs
(+) Other serious crimes: all theft not mentioned elsewhere, (including theft of cell phones and
garden tools), commercial crime, and shoplifting
(+) Subcategories of aggravated robbery: carjacking, truck-jacking, cash-in- transit robberies,
bank robbery, robbery at residential premises, and robbery at business premises
40. Social contact crimes generally between people who know each other
occur
41. Social contact crimes include sexual offences, for example rape, assault (whether GBH, common or indecent), murder and
attempted
murder.
42. Socially motivated contact crimes murder, rape and assault
include which of the following
crimes?
43. SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME (+) economic,
CATEGORIES According to the (+) aggressive,
Department of Correctional (+) sexual,
Service (DCS) include: (+) narcotics
(+) other crimes.
44. SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME (+) contact crimes,
CATEGORIES According to the (+) contact-related crimes,
SAPS national broad categories of (+) property-related crimes,
crime include: (+) crimes heavily dependent on police action for detection
(+) other serious crimes.
45. Subcategories of aggravated carjacking, truck-jacking, cash-in- transit robberies, bank robbery, robbery at residential
robbery: premises, and robbery at business premises
