Crime Types and their Investigation

Abstract

This chapter explores different types of crime and their investigation. It begins with volume crime, which is ‘any crime which through its sheer volume has a significant impact on the community and the ability of the local police to tackle it’. Offences include acquisitive crime such as burglary, theft and street robbery, and other ‘volume’ offences such as criminal damage and assault. Violent crime may form part of a control strategy within the Volume Crime Management Model 2009 (VCMM). Regardless of the severity of injury, it is broadly divided into three types: stranger attacks, acquaintance assaults, and domestic abuse. The chapter then looks at the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA). It also considers hate crime; rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO); child sexual exploitation (CSE); missing person inquiries; honour-based violence/abuse and forced marriage; modern slavery and exploitation; criminal use of firearms; cyber crime and cyber investigations; and terrorism and extremism.