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But She Doesn't Look Like A Criminal - Page 2

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The newest category of crime is Computer crime. While most people don’t neceessarily think about this as criminal, because of its newness it is often in people’s minds. Clearly using a computer to ‘scam’, endanger people or for pornographic or fraudulent purposes falls into this category.

Seventh, is Victimless crime. Victimless crimes are the most controversial and subjective category in crime. These include behaviors that are surrounded by much debate and whose criminal status changes over time and place. For example, included in this category is prostitution, illegal in some places, but not all, and behaviors for which there is a great deal of controversy such as suicide or helmet laws.

Last, but not least, and a category of crime that most people rarely think of is Political crime . Political crimes can fall into two categories: crimes by the government and crimes against the government. Included in this category are issues such as terrorism, treason, assassinations, spying, police brutality and so on.

And to complicate things just a little bit further, we might add that one particular act, due to its circumstances might be able to be placed in more than one category.

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