• Crimes, called public wrongs, consist of felonies (serious) and misdemeanors (less serious). Wrongs less serious than misdemeanors—variously termed violations, infractions, and petty offenses—are not crimes. Crimes may be punishable by death, prison, or jail sentences of different durations, depending on the seriousness of these crimes.
• Personal and business crimes often handled by criminal justice agencies and discussed earlier 3 include assault, robbery, arson, burglary, theft, insider trading, bribery, identity theft, driving while intoxicated, and cyber crimes.
• The defenses—reasons that accused individuals offer to excuse guilt for criminal acts—are infancy, insanity, involuntary intoxication, duress, justification, entrapment, and mistake based on wrong DNA.
• People who commit crimes are handled through either the federal or the state criminal justice system, which is composed of the police, the courts, and corrections
Traditional and Cyber Crimes
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