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Minor or Summary Offense

This dimension groups criminal offenses by their grade or severity. Wikipedia notes that an offender, if found guilty, "may be sentenced to a form of reparation such as a community sentence, or, depending on the nature of their offence, to undergo imprisonment, life imprisonment or, in some jurisdictions, death," a range of penalties that tracks the offense's own grade. Browsing by offense grade compares offenses of a similar severity.

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Origin EraSourced to the subject's own account
1939 1
Minor or Summary Offense
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Advance-Fee Scam

Minor or Summary Offense

Art Student Scam

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Bait-and-Switch

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Bigamy

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Blockbusting

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Business Identity Theft

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Cheating (Law)

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Cheque Fraud

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Coney-Catching

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Confidence Trick

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Counterfeit

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Counterfeit Consumer Good

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Cut and Shut

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Deception (Criminal Law)

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Economic Abuse

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Employment Fraud

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Evasion of Liability by Deception

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False Lien

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False pretenses

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Falsifying Business Records

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Foreign Electoral Intervention

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Friendly Fraud

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Ghosting (Identity Theft)

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Miracle Cars Scam

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Mismarking

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Obtaining a Money Transfer by Deception

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Obtaining Pecuniary Advantage by Deception

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Obtaining Services by Deception

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Occupational Crime

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Odometer Fraud

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Passport Fraud

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Polygamy

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Return Fraud

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Sham Marriage

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Shill

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Skimming (Fraud)

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Staged Crash

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Technical Support Scam

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Telephone Slamming

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Timeshare Fraud

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Uttering

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Visa Fraud

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Wage Theft

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War profiteering

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Wine Fraud

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: White-Collar Crime
White-collar crime, introductory section, subcategory-level citation
Quote, White-collar crime, introductory section, subcategory-level citation
It was first defined by the sociologist Edwin Sutherland in 1939 as 'a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of their occupation'.
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