These are mainly property crimes of the household (burglary) and personal crime (theft from the person). ... White-collar crime, fraud and motor offences and so-called "victimless crime" such as possession or drug dealing are also not included. ... This meant that multiple crimes such as domestic abuse and persistent harassment could only be counted as six crimes, and the rest were put together as one crime. ... Another major flaw in the BCS is the categorisation of crime; a minor or petty crime is counted equally as a major crime in the final statistics. ... The perception of crime affects mo...

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Higgins, tests a somewhat new and foreign area of crime: cyber crime. ... The researchers noted that digital piracy is a crime in which the victim is not visible. This leads to a sense that digital piracy is a "victimless crime.... The first hypothesis Higgins and Morris's tested was confirmed: social learning theory is a universal theory of crime, for it has measured street crime adequately and it is now proven applicable to cyber crime. ... Digital piracy, because it is a cyber crime, is unlike many other types of deviance. ...

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