Since the beginning time people have been committing crimes against each other, resulting in using the crime property damage, as a retaliation or lesson towards people in America. There are three elements of property damage, which conclude Burglary, Theft and Lastly Arson. These elements of crimes against properties can be justified in the court of law and several statues created to enforce the order of The United States of America. Burglary it is considered to be a property crime that involves breaking and entering into a public establishment or residence with purpose or intent of stealing. According to a Poll survey in 2011 50% of burglaries were not reported, due to the low solvability rates. Many burglary crimes go unsolved and continue …show more content…
The crime theft can be resulted in many different ways for example taking something without someone’s consent, bribing someone and lastly the most heinous Threating someone’s life. In most cases this crime is highly punishable and taken serious. Arson the property crime that involves any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling, house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property. Juveniles are more likely to be involved in the act of arson, considerably because juveniles are more impressionable and sometimes can be looked up as accidental and curious when it comes to fires being set in and property being damaged in the process. In the state of Florida you have three different types of property crimes that can occur in any area which are Burglary, Arson and Theft. These crimes are more likely committed in urban areas were the sub culture is a lower level income and less means of successful American lifestyle. The Crime burglary under law is breaking and entering into someone’s residence or property with intent to commit a …show more content…
Traveling across county lines to commit burglary is a serious crime of property, simply because you are charged for burglary and then charged again for leaving your prospective county. Furthermore possession of burglary tools or any tools or machinery with intent to commit burglary or trespass are considered guilty according to (Florida Statue, 810.06) and are automatically sentenced to a felony of the third degree. The crime can result in up to five years in prison and 5,000 Fine if found guilty, in the state of Florida. This statue is based on the criminal activity of intent but when discovered is punished highly. In Order for an object to be considered incriminatory and used as a tool of burglary, the court must verify the defendant as using the object to trespass or burglary. Without these specific steps being taken a citizen accused of burglary while having possession of tools and machinery cannot only be sentenced in the state of Florida and will be
In the study, they neglect to factor in the financial needs of their subjects. The study of Broken Window was based on the results received from higher income neighborhoods; in those neighborhoods financial circumstances are not crucial to families. Financial factors vary from neighborhood to neighborhood and even from family to family within the same neighborhoods. Ignoring this financial need in the areas where the studies were done lead to fundamental misunderstandings in the theory. The study generalizes the outcome of one broken window. Having a broken window on any property does not automatically lead to more broken windows, like suggested by the results of the cars placed in California and the Bronx. The level of desperation of families due to their financial circumstances leads to increasing crime rates. When the economy is unstable, a lot of people become unemployed; people that still have the obligation of sustaining their families. This may lead them to turn to illegal activities for a fast extra source of income. In these situations, crimes involving robberies and drugs increase in
Under common law some many years ago, burglary was the breaking and entering of a dwelling during the night for the purposes of committing a felony or a larceny (Bernasco and Luykx 2003). Under common law, there were a couple reasons for this specific definition of burglary. First, as Bernasco put it, breaking is the act of creating an opening by disabling any part of the dwelling meant to serve as a prevention tool against intrusion. Secondly, nighttime was an important element of burglary by common law standards; law-makers viewed people as unable to protect themselves during the middle of the night. Under common law, it was not enough to merely enter a dwelling, the act of breaking had to exist; if the entry occurs through an unlocked door, then burgl...
Arson has been occurring for many years and about 500,000 fires are set intentionally each year. Arson is defined as any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, the property of another or cause physical harm to another. Fire data has been collected since 1977 by the National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) and the amount of fires has been declining ever since. In the past few decades, there has come about a number of serial arsonists- an offender who sets three or more fires with a cooling-off period between the fires (Douglas, et al, 1992). There are numerous serial arsonists who have been caught, some of which include, Peter Dinsdale, Robert Lee Oyler, Thomas Sweatt, and Paul Keller. While the number of fires across the country have
There are numerous theories as to why a crime is committed. Rational choice theory, which is a subset of classical theory, says that before people commit a crime they think about what they are going to do. They weigh the pros and cons before committing the criminal act. The rational choice theory is well suited for the causation of burglary. The support for this theory is that burglars do not commit crime for the fun of it or just because they want to. It is usually because they need money to keep their heads above water. In their situation, they do not see any other way than to steal to make a living. The opposition for rational choice theory is that criminals do not think before they act as they may be incapable of thinking rationally in the first place.
Now you are going to take a look at the preventive behaviours of victimized and not victimized groups. It is obvious that in many cases the lack of protective measurements contributed somewhat to victimization. If you make a comparison between the two groups, you can see that at the time of the crime burglary victims had fewer household security measurements than not victimized. (Weinstein, 1989) As you can see there is no guarantee when or who is going to be victimized. Many will think that burglary victims’ experience does not deserve to be examined, but they are wrong. The main reason is that households are something sacred, where a family stores its memories, documents and everything else that no one different from family member deserves to see. This mean that these victims do not deserve invaded homes.
There are both strengths and weakness of the two statistical approaches of crime. The FBI’s UCR complied data from monthly law enforcement reports or individual criminal records transferred to the FBI or to centralized agencies that then sent to the FBI. The crimes were divided into two categories, Part I offenses and Part II offenses. Part I reported data about property and violent crimes such as burglary, forcible rape, and robbery. Part II reported on crimes like simple assault, disorderly conduct, liquor offenses, and vandalism. It was more accurate than other crime statistic reports because the data was collected and reported monthly by law enforcement agencies. However, it also had some weakness. Some crimes may not be reported because
Crime in the United States from 2014 to 2013 has decreased. According the FBI’s page, the definition of “violent crime” is, composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Violent crimes are those offenses that involve force or threat of force. These crimes have decreased from a little over 1.250,000 to an estimated 1,165,383 nationwide. Aggravated assaults accounted for 63.8%, robbery offenses were 28%, rape was 7.2%, and murder was 1.2%. Not only is violent crime rate reducing, but so is property crime. Property crime includes larceny-theft, burglary, motor-vehicle theft, and arson. From 2010 to 2014 property crime has reduced from an estimated 9,100,000 to 8,277,829. It declined 4.3% from a 2013 estimate. Loses from 2014 estimate $14.3 billion.
Valuables taken during a burglary can be replaced easily, but someone’s identity and livelihood cannot be given back. Most white collar criminals only seem to get a slap on the wrist, or maybe even probation. Someone that burglarizes or robs someone can get five to thirty years depending on whether a weapon was involved.... ... middle of paper ... ... Henning, P. (2013, February 25).
“There is a widespread concern that the level and type of crime reported in the media present a distorted view of the real level of crime in the community” (Media portrayals of crime, 2000). If a crime is portrayed as ‘out of control’ or perceived as ‘dangerous’ to a community through the media, it could create social repercussions, such as isolation of consumers who believe that their community is in a high-crime or high-violence area. Statistics recorded from the Australian Institute of Criminology confirms property crime, such as break and enter, burglary, vehicle theft and shoplifting are continually being reported at a higher rate than violent crime (Media portrayals of crime, 2000). In 2013 alone, there were approximately 739,317 property offences in total (homicide incidents, 2017). Therefore, the increase in property offences in society was the highest recorded in 2013, compared to violent crimes that are decreasing in a total of 151,714 in the same reviewed period. In addition, this evidence shows that the majority of crime in our society is not of a violent nature.
In the United States, a violent crime occurs every 25.3 seconds and a property crime occurs every 4 seconds (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2017). Black’s Law Dictionary defines crime as an act that violates a public law, or a breach of some public right to the community (Black’s Law Dictionary). Crimes are generally split into two categories: property crimes and violent crimes. Some examples of property crimes are arson, larceny, burglary, and robbery. Violent crimes include murder, assault, rape, and manslaughter. While crime is often committed by individuals, there are sometimes larger, organized groups of people committing these heinous acts, otherwise known as organized crime groups. When many think of organized crime, the first things
We all know someone who has either gotten their personal belongings damaged or somebody who did the damaging. No matter the location, people can use graffiti or even random objects used to smash things to destroy another individual 's possessions. Although this is highly illegal, it can still be done. Many vandalizers pick these acts to humiliate the victim. The vandalizers may be seeking attention, which is why they do these risky things. Vandalism can be prevented at a costly price, but can only cover inside the house. This can lead to fear or feeling unsafe. The continual feeling of fear may leave the victim with anxiety. You cannot prevent everything, so there will be times the victims will have to repair their damaged
Property Crime can be defined as the unauthorized taking or damaging of an individual’s personal belongings. This is not limited to robbery of any kind, fraud, or even arson, but all of these crimes have several coinciding traits that group them under this term. While property crimes are meant to take something that is not ours and use it for our own advantage, violent crimes are used to harm or even kill another rather than using for ones self. This includes hate crimes, murder, rape, and abuse. Hate Crimes are unique because they usually target someone who’s different than the race or sex of that individual committing the offense whereas murder and assault are not always gender or race defined. Therefore, property and violent crimes are influenced by social inequalities that are caused by gender, race, income and age; thus why the legal definition of crime cannot cover all possible scenarios without taking each individual case and studying social behaviors in these of why or what was the cause of the crime committed.
From 1991-2000, statistically there was a dramatic decline in crime nationally. The statistics studied were of all categories of crimes considered serious, including: homicides which decreased by 39%; rape which decreased by 41%; robbery which decreased by 44%; aggravated assault which decreased by 24%; burglary which decreased by 41%; auto theft which decreased by 37%; and larceny which decreased by 23%. The statistics show a range of decline of 23-44%! (United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation 1990, 2000. Uniform Crime Report. Washington, D.C.) The evidence indicates that the benefit of declining crime rates are concentrated on specific groups with...
A home burglary investigation, the objectives of this type of investigation, and how the objectives will relate to a successful completion. The first objective of a home burglary investigation is crime detection. Typically a home burglary is reported by the homeowner, once they have returned from being away. It could be found by the detection of property loss, or a forced entry point. A report by neighbors who keep an eye on their neighborhood and observe the burglary in progress is another example of crime detection. Naturally, a better outcome would be to have someone, a witness who sees the suspect enter the residence, report it. This will take us to the second objective much more quickly. A burglary in progress is dispatched immediately with a minimum of two officers, while a burglary report is dispatched within thirty minutes with a one officer response (Columbus Police 2007). The police will be dispatched to a burglary in progress quicker and with a larger response.
The U.S. Department of Labor (2011) reported the national average of unemployment for 2008 was 5.8 percent. The rate dramatically increased in 2009 with an average of 9.3 percent and 9.6 percent for 2010. While unemployment rates have increased, the FBI’s preliminary reports for 2010 show that law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have reported a decrease of 6.2 percent in the number of violent crimes for the first 6 months of 2010 when compared to figures reported for the same time in 2009. The violent crime category includes rape, murder, robbery, and aggravated result. The number of property crimes also decreased 2.8 percent when compared to the same time last year. Property crimes include burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft. Arson decreased 14.6 percent when compared to the same time periods of 2009 (FBI, 2011).