6 Types of Crime

1. Types of Crime
By Ameena Patel

2. Lesson Aims
• To understand 6 different broad types of Crimes
• To study examples of crimes in each category
• To understand the grading system

3. Grading changes
• 5 Marks each week over the next 6 weeks beginning
from today (30 marks over the course of 6 weeks)
• Pay attention to when work is graded and submit
accordingly
• Assessed classroom work will appear as ACW

4. Watch the following video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62ExbHI4Yk
• Write down as many different examples of crimes as you
can

5. Activity 1: ACW 10 mins
• Open the Types of Crimes Article from the files section of
Microsoft teams
• Match the Crime Headings with the Crime definitions
• Upload your article on the Assessed Classroom Work
ACW tab of your Notebook
2 marks

6. What is Crime?
• A crime is defined as any act that is contrary to legal
code or laws. In other words, crime and legality are
social constructs that are fluid and change over time.
There are many different types of crimes, from crimes
against persons to victimless crimes and violent crimes
to white collar crimes. The study of crime and deviance
is a large subfield within sociology, with much attention
paid to who commits which types of crimes and why.
Crossman, Ashley. "7 Different Types of Crimes." ThoughtCo, Aug. 5, 2021, thoughtco.com/types-of-crimes-3026270.

7. 6 Types of Crimes

8. Crimes Against Persons
• Crimes against persons also called personal crimes,
include murder, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery.
Personal crimes are unevenly distributed in the United
States, with young, urban, poor, non-white, and other
historically marginalized groups both more often affected
by these crimes and arrested for them than white,
middle- and upper-class people are.

9. Crimes Against Property
• Property crimes involve the theft of property without
bodily harm, such as burglary, larceny, auto theft, and
arson. Like personal crimes, members of historically
marginalized groups are arrested for these crimes more
than others
Larceny: Theft of personal property
.

10. Hate Crimes
• Hate crimes are crimes against persons or property that
are committed while invoking prejudices of race, gender
or gender identity, religion, disability, sexual orientation,
or ethnicity. The rate of hate crimes in the U.S. remains
fairly constant from year to year, but there have been a
few events that have caused surges in hate crimes. In
2016, the election of Donald Trump was followed by an
uptick in hate crimes.

11. Crimes Against Morality
• Crimes against morality are also called victimless crimes
because there is no complainant or victim. Prostitution,
illegal gambling, and illegal drug use are all examples of
victimless crimes.

12. White-Collar Crime
• White-collar crimes are crimes committed by people of high
social status who commit their crimes in the context of their
occupation. This includes embezzling (stealing money from
one’s employer), insider trading, tax evasion, and other
violations of income tax laws.
• White-collar crimes generally generate less concern in the
public mind than other types of crime, however, in terms of
total dollars, white-collar crimes are even more consequential
for society. For example, the Great Recession can be
understood as in part the result of a variety of white-collar
crimes committed within the home mortgage industry.
Nonetheless, these crimes are generally the least investigated
and least prosecuted because they are protected by a
combination of privileges of race, class, and gender.

13. Organized Crime
• Organized crime is committed by structured groups typically
involving the distribution and sale of illegal goods and
services. Many people think of the Mafia when they think of
organized crime, but the term can refer to any group that
exercises control over large illegal enterprises (such as the
drug trade, illegal gambling, prostitution, weapons smuggling,
or money laundering).
• A key sociological concept in the study or organized crime is
that these industries are organized along the same lines as
legitimate businesses and take on a corporate form. There
are typically senior partners who control profits, employees
who manage and work for the business, and clients who buy
the goods and services that the organization provides.

14. Watch the following
Video
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQSelhHRtQU
Answer the following questions:
1. What was the main category of the crime? E.g. Crime
against Property
2. What was the exact crime committed?

15. What did you learn from
today’s lesson?

16. The End

17. Lesson 2
By Ameena Patel

18. Lesson Aims

19. List the 6 Types of Crimes
studied in our last session
(chat page)

20. 6 Types of Crime
• Crimes Against Persons
• Crimes Against Property
• Hate crimes
• Crimes Against Morality
• White- collar crime
• Organized crime

21. Assessed Classroom Work
(3 marks)
• Research any one type of crime
• Make a simple PowerPoint Presentation with the following
information included. Paste the question and answer on one
slide . Include a photo or photos. Once completed upload your
work to ACW notebook
1. What crime was committed?
2. Who committed the crime?
3. Why did they commit the crime?
4. When was the crime committed?
5. Where was the crime committed?
6. What type of crime was it? E.g. Hate crime

22. What did you learn from
today’s lesson?

23. The End