Defining Deviance

Ponzi Schemes also known as a multi-marketing organization are white-collar crime; it is essentially an individual swindling a quick investment from new investors. Always ends up with investors or victums losing “their shirt” all the profits and many cases the company and is bankrupted and the owner ends up in jail. Two very highly successful Ponzi schemes are Primerica group and Amway. Primerica Group sells insurance and financial services and Amway sells heath insurance, but it doesn’t matter what they sale, its all about recruitment. They take your hard earned money and invest it into there business for a bigger profit in the future for a retirement but many people who try to get some of there money back for emergency are sadly mistaken

Property crime is a classification of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism. Property crime only includes the taking of money or property, and doesn’t involve force or intimidation of force against a victim. An example of property crime would be “A supermarket worker who was jailed for stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds of Asda gift vouchers "amassed a fortune" which she

The most committed crimes somewhere around 2009 and 2011 were: Burglary, Filter, Forcible Sex Offense, and Motor Vehicle Theft.

The UCR ( Uniform Crime Reports) is a collection of data initiated in 1924 by the director of the Bureau of Investigations (Today known as the FBI) J. Edgar Hoover on crimes known to police departments.Currently approximately 17,000 city, county and state law enforcement agencies which cover 95% of the total population of the United States, voluntarily contribute information on crimes referenced by the reports. The agencies represent over 254 million U.S.inhabitants, with a higher representation in large urban areas (97%) than in smaller cities (90%) and rural areas (87%). If a law enforcement agency verifies a crime has been committed, that crime goes into the report, whether or not an arrest has been made.

Over the last several years crime has been steadily increasing and decreasing but has had a great decrease in comparison of the 1980s based on relevant statistics in the chart “Crime in California, 1983-2009.” The most common types of crime in California are property crimes that are burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson and in second place violent crimes that is the interpersonal crime that involves the use of force by offenders or results in injury or death to victims such as murder, forcible raperobbery, and aggravated assault.

Violent crimes involve threatening another such as in armed robbery or carjacking. It includes domestic abuse against one's partner and one's children or any child. Then there are violent crimes that impact the community at large which include: arson, hate crimes, mayhem murder, terrorism, terrorist threats and vehicular crimes. There are also a number of drug crimes, which include growing, manufacturing, importing, trafficking, distribution and all transportation or sales of any kind. It is becoming a larger health issue but remains a legal one that attorney representation is critical for, for those with one or multiple

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program property crimes are crimes such as burglary, larceny-theft,

The SAGE dictionary of criminology- “Crime is not a self-evident and unitary concept. Its constitution is diverse, historically relative and continually contested. As a result an answer to the question ‘what is crime?’ depends upon which of its multiple constitutive elements is emphasized. This in turn depends upon the theoretical position taken by those defining crime”.

Property crime is crime against one’s property that benefits the offender economically or is done to damage the property of another person. Such offenses include larceny, in which someone steals the property of another without force. Shoplifting and pickpocketing are examples of larceny. Another type of property crime is burglary, in which the offender unlawfully enters a person’s home, business, or structure of any kind with the intention of committing an act such as theft. Motor vehicle theft is also a property

The FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program collects data for crimes that are classified as Part I offenses. These are serious crimes by nature and/or volume: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. Only those crimes that have been documented by police and those where a person has been arrested by law enforcement are collected. The program only reports on the eight listed crime classifications

Throughout history, certain crimes have been separated into different categories base on their prevalence. For every crime, the offense and charge is different. In addition, not every

The Uniform Crime Report, which was developed in the 1930s, is commonly used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a record of crimes committed all across the United States. These crimes, which fall under two categories, Part I and Part II offenses, are reported by local police to the Federal Bureau of Investigation each year. Part I offenses are considered to be the more serious of crimes recognized by society. Such examples of this are homicide, forcible rape, robbery, arson, motor vehicle theft, etc. Part II offenses are those that are considered less serious, such as fraud, simple assault, drug abuse, gambling, stolen property, embezzlement, etc. Part I crimes can also be subdivided into what are known as violent crimes and

A Ponzi scheme is an illegal business practice in which new investor’s money is used to make payments to earlier investors. In many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters focus on attracting new money to make promised payments to earlier-stage investors and to use for personal expenses, instead of engaging in any legitimate investment activity. The returns are repaid out of new investors’ principal, but not from profits. This can continue as long as new investors line up with cash, and old investors don’t try to withdraw too much of their money at once.

Deviance can be defined as an absence of conformity to the social norm. Not all deviant behavior is necessarily illegal or harmful to individuals, these behaviors can range from standing in another’s personal space to murdering another individual. In some cases, it can be looked upon as a positive change or a unique and favorable act. Although, considered deviant because it is not the social norm, it still can have a very positive social aspect or lead to social change. Culture and the societies within these cultures have a significant impact on what is considered deviant and what is acceptable or even lawful behavior. The degree of deviance is measured by society’s reaction towards the action and the lawful sanctions that may take

The first question deals with the issue of deviance being defined by a normative definition. The fist major issue with that is in the definition. We all define deviance as something else. What someone else finds to be deviant another person will find to be totally normal. That is where the issue lies. How can we have something called normative definition of deviance. Is it what the society as a whole thinks are normal or should we take the things that some small groups also consider to be deviant. Also, this gets into when does something become deviant. If some people believe that sex before marriage is a deviant act and other feel that it is not how can we come to a consensus of what is a deviant act. This why is the act normal just because they have gotten married. Would it still be considered normal if the couple was 12 and decided to get married to have sex? They are still in a marriage and have decided to not have sex before that marriage. This for most would be considered a deviant act in America, but if we go to other parts of the world where the life span is not that long than the act becomes less deviant. So yes, in a way society defines deviance, but that definition cannot simply be something that some people consider deviant. Everything is considered deviant by someone, and everything is not considered deviant by someone else. Someone will always be willing to condemn an action and someone will be ready to defend that same action. It is not safe to say that just