Exam 12: Property Crimes

_____ theft involves ongoing, constant acts of theft by an employee. This type of theft is usually motivated by the need to support a vice of the employee, such as gambling, drugs, or alcohol.

The "bait and switch" swindle involves overcharging for services performed, charging for services not performed, or parts not replaced and failing to provide labor and materials as agreed.

The storefront or "sting" technique is an investigative technique in property crimes aimed at the wholesale identification and apprehension of thieves.

_____ theft involves those instances when employees consume the employer's product while on the job or take home items such as office supplies at the end of the day.

Burglary is usually which type of crime?

Repair fraud involves luring customers into a place of business with advertised merchandise and then selling the customer a higher priced item of allegedly better quality.

"Strippers" steal a car, tow or drive it to a "chop shop" and have it cut up for its parts.

The burglary technique in which the top, bottom, or sides of a safe are attacked with a chisel or other metal-cutting device is known as: _____.

_____ involves elements of intentional deceit, concealment, corruption, misrepresentation, and abuse of trust to gain the property of another.

What is the conversion of another's property over which the thief has custody or control?

_____ fraud is an ego-building swindle based on the hidden desire of many people to serve as a secret agent for the police.

A "smash and grab" is when the burglar hides in a commercial premises until all employees have left, then breaks out with the stolen property.

_____ theft involves those instances when the employee is presented with an opportunity for theft that, in the employee's mind, must be acted upon.

What are the intermediaries of larceny, the people who buy and sell stolen property, called?

Which is not a step in the behavior cycle of burglars?

_____ and con games are frauds based on promises of unusual returns: something for nothing, double your money, or income for life.

Burglary is usually a _____ crime in that the burglar normally tries to avoid contact with victims.

_____ is the entering of a structure for the purpose of committing a felony or theft therein.

_____ is defined as the unlawful taking or stealing of property without the use of force or violence.

"Dismantlers" usually attack a parked car, taking a variety of parts readily disposed of on the local black market.