Exam 12: Property Crime

Which of the following elements would have legally constituted burglary during the late middle ages?

When caught, shoplifters try to rationalize their behavior. Cromwell and Thurman found widespread use of which social process theory?

Joyriding is a type of car theft usually motivated by a teenager's desire to acquire the power, prestige, sexual potency, and recognition associated with possessing an automobile.

Amateur criminals whose decisions to steal are spontaneous and whose acts are unskilled, unplanned, and haphazard are known as:

_________________involve putting dummy or disabled goods on display while the real merchandise is kept under lock and key.

__________________ involves a business owner burning his or her property, or hiring someone to do it, to escape financial problems.

Identify and discuss Neil Shover's characteristics of a "good burglar" and how novices gain recognition as good burglars.

Describe the similarities and differences between petty and grand larceny.

By the eighteenth century, which of these types of property criminals lived in the country and supplemented their diet and income with game that belonged to a landlord?

Most credit card fraud is the work of amateurs who acquire stolen cards through theft or mugging and then use them for two or three days.

A buyer and seller of stolen merchandise is often referred to as a ________________.

Public meeting places, often taverns, that served as headquarters for gangs and thieves in the eighteenth century were known as:

Of the 6 million larcenies recorded each year by the UCR, about ________________ percent are shoplifting incidents.

Theft is a phenomenon unique to modern times; the theft of personal property has not been known throughout recorded history.

A common method of swindling money out of an innocent victim is known as the ________.

________ larceny is a felony punishable by a sentence in state prison.

The critical role of a "merchant" in criminal transactions has been recognized since the eighteenth century. A _________ is a buyer and seller of stolen merchandise.

__________________are not professional criminals. They are amateur criminals whose decision to steal is spontaneous and whose acts are unskilled, unplanned, and haphazard.

The number one and number two most stolen cars in the United States are typically manufactured by Honda.

Of the eight index crimes, motor vehicle theft is the only one to see a significant increase over the past decade.