Underprivileged Deviance

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Underprivileged Deviance

• Shoplifting ,Carjacking and Animal Cruelty

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crimes in the streets

• easier to detect
• people more afraid of these crimes
• Types of underprivileged crime 
• Juvenile
• Crimes against the person involves violence or
  the threat of violence against others, violent
  including homicide and non-negligent
  manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and
  aggravated assault
• Crimes against property involve theft of goods
  belonging to others, including burglary,
  larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson
• Victimless crime violation of laws in which
  there are no readily apparent victims, a
  misnomer, including prostitution, gambling and
  drug abuse

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Shoplifting

• Shoplifting is stealing something from a store.
  You shoplift if you intend to take something that
  doesnt belong to you from a store without paying
  for it.

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• What are the penalties?
• Probation (you have to follow certain conditions
  for a set time).
• An absolute or conditional discharge a penalty
  that gives first offenders a second chance with
  probation-like conditions.
• Diversion (you can avoid a record if its your
  first offence, you admit the crime, and you pay
  your debt to the community by, for example, doing
  community service or writing letters of apology
  or both).
• Restitution (you have to pay for the item).
• A fine, plus an automatic victim surcharge you
  can ask the judge to waive the surcharge if you
  have no money.
• A conditional sentence like a jail term, but
  you serve it in the community with probation-like
  conditions.
• A jail term.

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Carjacking

• Carjacking is the crime of stealing a motor
  vehicle when the vehicle is occupied. Typically,
  the carjacker is armed, and the driver is forced
  out of the car with the threat of bodily injury

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• It is a serious threat to our personal safety
  because the thief uses force and fear during the
  act.
• Sometimes the car owner or other occupants are
  kidnapped during a carjacking, and if lucky will
  be dropped off nearby unharmed.
• The worst case scenario occurs when victims are
  transported to a secondary crime scene, which is
  usually more dangerous than the original
  confrontation.
• Those not so lucky victims have suffered other
  crimes like rape, aggravated assault, and even
  homicide.

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Animal Cruelty

• Animal cruelty is often broken down into two main
  categories
• Active (commission)
• Active cruelty implies malicious intent, where a
  person has deliberately and intentionally caused
  harm to an animal, and is sometimes referred to
  as NAI (Non-Accidental Injury). Acts of
  intentional cruelty are often some of the most
  disturbing and should be considered signs of
  serious psychological problems. This type of
  behaviour is often associated with sociopathic
  behaviour and should be taken very seriously.
• Passive (omission)
• Passive cruelty is typified by cases of neglect,
  where the crime is a lack of action rather than
  the action itself. Examples of neglect are
  starvation, dehydration, parasite infestations,
  allowing a collar to grow into an animals skin,
  inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions,
  and failure to seek veterinary care when an
  animal needs medical attention.