Exam 12: Property Crime

Weapons, most often guns, were used in about three-quarters of all carjacking victimizations.

___________ are thieves wh o typically work in the larger cities, such as London and Paris. This group includes pickpockets, forgers, and counterfeiters, who operate freely.

By law, a burglary must involve a theft.

By the eighteenth century, three separate groups of property criminals were active: skilled thieves, smugglers, and poachers.

A type of auto theft involving gunmen approaching a car and forcing the owner to give up the keys is known as:

Professional thieves who steal high-priced items usually get about ____ percent of the wholesale price.

A buyer and seller of stolen merchandise is known as a:

Juveniles comprise approximately 15% of all people arrested for arson annually.

The crime of __________________ involves a wrongdoer's misrepresenting a fact in a way that causes a victim to willingly give his or her property to the wrongdoer, who then keeps it.

Professional thieves make a significant amount of their income from criminal activity.

The best-known account of professional theft is the life of Chic Conwell, in _____________ classic book The Professional Thief .

In states that enact laws specifying different degrees of burglary, the most serious and heavily punished crimes involve:

A fetishistic burglary example would be if a man breaks into a woman's home when unoccupied, steals personal belongings such as panties and bras, and uses these items for sexual gratification.

The taking of goods from a retail store without payment is known as _________________________.

Discuss the historical evolution of the legal definition of burglary .

Explain what constitutes a confidence game and whether a confidence game is theft or fraud. Include in your response several examples of a confidence game.

Heels are professional shoplifters who steal with the intention of reselling stolen merchandise to pawnshops or fences.

A device with a false bottom that can be opened and shut by a professional shoplifter, lined with metal or some other substance to prevent security tags from setting off alarms, and placed over merchandise is known as a __________________.

An effect in a fire when heat and gas at the ceiling of a room reach 2,000 degrees is referred to as a backdraft.

In contrast to occasional thieves, __________________ are criminals who make a significant portion of their income from crime.