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Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquent is perhaps most simply define as a child or nonadult who has failed to meet the obligations or expectations of the society.
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As Montero and McDowell said, it can be assumed that Juvenile delinquents may be children who have committed the criminal act. Then again, they may simply be children whose
behavior is in violation of the law only because they are children. Such violations are termed “status offenses” and include running away from home, truancy, curfew violations, and liquor or tobacco
usage and sex offenses.
2. Victimless Crime
When Americans perceive a particular activity to be “sinful” or “immoral”, they often rush to make it illegal as well whether or not such activity results in tangible harm to anyone. Obvious
examples of morality statues include laws that limit or prohibit the use of liquor or drugs and laws that define the boundaries of acceptable sexual behavior. Although the case might be made that
prostitutes or drug addicts, for example, are they “victim” or their own crimes, unless they have included unwilling or nonadult partners in their activities is difficult to determine who else they
victimize by their actions. They are participants in “victimless crimes”.
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22 Montero, McDowell, Social Problems New York: Mcmillan Publishing Company, 1986, p.393 23 Ibid
24Ibid, p.395 14
From the description above, it might be generally defined that victimless crime is
contradictory activity against the moral that is accepted by the society.
3. White-Collar Crime
A contemporary definition of white-collar crime includes at least three general categories: 1 personal white collar crime, criminal behavior on the part of individual employees or executives in
pursuit of personal gain. 2 corporate white-collar crime, a collective criminal behavior on the part of management in order to enhance corporate profits; and 3 the malfeasance of public officials,
corruption, graft, payoffs, and a general abuse of political power.
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4. Organized Crime
Organized crime is in the business of providing customers with illicit goods and services in return for extremely high profits. Its illegal enterprises include gambling probably its primary
source of income, narcotics, prostitution, pornography, and business and labor racketeering.
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5. Violent Crime
Crimes of violence include robbery, aggravated assault, rape, and murder. It is largely a phenomenon of large cities. The offenders are young males, often between the ages of 15 and 24.
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25 Montero and McDowell, Social problem New York: McMillan Publishing Company, 198, p.397 26Ibid, p.398
27Ibid, p.400 15
E. Montero and McDowells Approach on Understanding the Crime as the Social Problem
