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Blue-collar crime is a term used to identify crime, normally of a small scale nature in contrast to “white-collar crime”, and is generally attributed to people of the lower class.
6 kwi 2016 · It is well established across a range of jurisdictions that those engaging in blue-collar crime can expect to receive harsher penalties in the justice system than those engaging in white-collar crime, where equivalent levels of harm are present.
26 wrz 2024 · Common examples of blue-collar crimes include theft, burglary, assault, drug-related offenses, and vandalism. These offenses are usually spontaneous, involving little to no premeditation.
1 sie 2018 · In this article we explore the relationship between money and violence in the Philippine war on drugs. Building on long-term ethnographic and political engagement with a poor urban neighbourhood in...
1 sty 2021 · In this entry, the defining characteristics of blue-collar crimes, three representative categories of blue-collar crimes (i.e., arson, rape, and homicide), and some demographic features of blue-collar criminals are inspected.
Blue-collar crimes can be classi fied into three broad categories in criminology and sociol-ogy: property crime (e.g., arson, burglary, and shoplifting), violent crime (e.g., bank robbery, home invasion, and sexual assault), and organized crime (e.g., gang crime, human smuggling/trafck-fi ing, and illegal drug trading).
The paper begins with a brief examination of social stratification in early Philippine society. Following this is a short discussion on the promulgation of laws and the jurisdiction over which these laws applied. Civil disputes and criminal cases form the two main sections of the paper.
