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CHAPTER 2: Crime in Canada SOCI 327 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - identity theft
  - - - most common
  - - - Offences that are committed by individuals for their own benefit in the
        course of their employment.
    - - People who engage in financially motivated, non-violent crimes.
    - - offences committed by businesses or
        employees to increase profits to benefit their organization.
    - - When business owners engage in a conspiracy to reduce competition or to keep
        prices of a product or service artificially high.
    - - systematic killing of a
        population, such as a racial, ethnic, religious, or national group
      - Second World War holocaust where millions of Jews, Roma,
        Jehovah’s Witnesses, members of the LGBTQ community, and people with
        disabilities were killed as part of the Nazi government’s attempt to reduce
        the number of people they considered racially or genetically undesirable.
    - - genocide
      - “any of a number of acts
        (including murder, enslavement, torture, rape, apartheid, or persecution of
        an identifiable group) when committed as part of a widespread or
        systematic attack directed against any civilian population.”
    - - Scholars who argue that justice systems are designed to maintain class
        relationships.
- - - - find that many young
        people engage in crime
      - one-fifth of the 12- to 17-year-old respondents had
        committed a violent crime, about twice as many (37.8 per cent) had
        committed a property crime, and about one-fifth had used illegal drugs in
        the year prior to the survey.
  - - - only what was deemed to be the ‘most serious’ offence would
        be reported.
    - - requiring a victim to
        come to police headquarters to file a theft report on an item with little
        value discourages many victims from reporting the offence.