Property Crimes
Property crimes can include anything from destroying property to stealing something. Cash theft, however, is the most common, and overall, only about 18 percent of theft crimes resulted in charging someone for it. We’ll break down the types of felonies involving property crime, what to expect if charged with one, and average jail times or fines involved. You can turn to Felonies.org for all of your concerns involving property theft.
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Is Piracy a Felony? Punishments and Fines for Illegal Downloading
Many people think that they can download songs illegally or stream pirated movies online without getting into trouble. This is especially true when consumers don’t understand how illegal downloading laws work. In reality, anyone who uses copyrighted materials or intellectual property without the owners’ permission may face hundreds of thousands in fines for illegal downloading violations. The prison sentences aren’t…
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Property Crime Overview
The main purpose of theft-type crimes is to take money. However, these crimes are carried out without using any force or threatening to use force against the victim.
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What is Fraud and When is it a Felony?
There is a large variety of types of fraud, and they vary based on what the scheme is, how it's carried out, who it targets, what type of value is involved, and more.
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Felony Fraud Scams and the Law
Scams have been around for as long as the world has, and it's been done in any manner of ways with any number of laws governing them during its existence. However, technology has made them arguably worse, and US law works to combat that with intense penalties.
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What Are Hate Crimes?
A hate crime can be pretty much any type of crime against someone, as long as it has one element: the perpetrator committed the crime because of a bias they hold against someone's race, sex, religion, gender identity, disability, or nationality.
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Felony Cyber Crimes
As technology increases, so does the amount of variety of cyber crimes that occur, as well as the measures taken to prevent and prosecute against it.
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When are White Collar Crimes Felonies?
First referred to as white collar crimes by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1949, these crimes typically involves crimes that financially benefit the offenders without any violence. Sutherland explains it as a "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation."
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What is a Felony?
We all know that felonies are the worst of the worst. There are little crimes, misdemeanors, and tickets you can get, but having a felony on your record is considerably more serious. There are quite a few crimes that qualify, as well as possible punishments that come with them. It's important to be completely aware of the law, your rights…
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