Examples of capital crime in the following topics:
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- No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
- The Fifth Amendment states that everyone deserves a Grand Jury in the case of a capital crime.
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- Capital punishment is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
- Capital punishment is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
- Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as "capital crimes" or "capital offenses. " Capital punishment has in the past been practiced by most societies.
- Execution of criminals and political opponents has been used by nearly all societies–both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent.
- In some countries sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, incest, and sodomy, carry the death penalty, as do religious crimes, such as apostasy in Islamic nations.
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- Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.
- Generally, crimes can result in incarceration, but torts (see below) cannot.
- All states have somewhat similar laws in regard to "higher crimes" (or felonies), such as murder and rape, although penalties for these crimes may vary from state to state.
- Capital punishment is permitted in some states but not others.
- Some states distinguish between two levels: felonies and misdemeanors (minor crimes).
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- Based on a dialectical materialist account of history, Marxism posited that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, would inevitably produce internal tensions leading to its own destruction.
- White-collar crime is a financially motivated, nonviolent crime committed for illegal monetary gain.
- Within the field of criminology, white-collar crime initially was defined by sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as "a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. " A clear example of how deviance reflects power imbalances is in the reporting and tracking of crimes.
- Additionally, men benefit more from white-collar crime than do women, as they are more likely to attempt these crimes when they are in more powerful positions, allowing them to reap greater rewards.
- Explain why white-collar crime is less likely to be tracked in the U.S.
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- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
- Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons.
- Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes.
- Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex.
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- A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
- A violent crime is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens to use violent force upon the victim.
- Violent crimes include crimes committed with and without weapons.
- With the exception of rape (which accounts for 6% of all reported violent crimes), males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime.
- The comparison of violent crime statistics between countries is usually problematic due to the way different countries classify crime.
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- Global crime, such as Transnational Organized Crime, refers to any crime that is coordinated across national borders.
- Global crime can refer to any organized crime that occurs at an international or transnational level.
- Like national and local organized crime, global crime includes highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
- Transnational organized crime (TOC or transnational crime) is organized crime coordinated across national borders, involving groups or networks of individuals working in more than one country to plan and execute illegal business ventures.
- While the International Criminal Court can prosecute individuals for crimes against humanity, it has no jurisdiction over other global crimes.
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- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- Crime statistics attempt to provide statistical measures of the crime in societies.
- The U.S. has two major data collection programs: the Uniform Crime Reports from the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
- Fraud or certain drug charges are examples of nonviolent crimes.
- Because of the difficulties in quantifying how much crime actually occurs, researchers generally take two approaches to gathering statistics about crime.
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- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction.
- Crimes may also result in cautions, rehabilitation, or be unenforced.
- Individual human societies may each define crime and crimes differently, in different localities, and at different time stages of the crime.
- Similarly, changes in the collection and calculation of data on crime may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any given "crime problem."
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- Organized crime refers to transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals.
- Organized crime refers to transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals for the purpose of engaging in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit.
- Organized crime groups operate as smaller units within the overall network, and as such tend towards valuing significant others, familiarity of social and economic environments, or tradition.
- Bureaucratic and corporate organized crime groups are defined by the general rigidity of their internal structures.
- Organized crime groups often victimize businesses through the use of extortion or theft and fraud activities like hijacking cargo trucks, robbing goods, committing bankruptcy fraud, insurance fraud, or stock fraud.