Exam 10: Property Crime: Occasional, Conventional, and Professional

Professional pickpockets are also known as "boosters."

Identify and describe three types of vandalism.

Sabotage arsonists describe those individuals who have a morbid fascination with setting and observing fires.

The main distinction between occupational/corporate crime and professional crime is that in occupational/corporate crime, the crime is incidental to a legitimate business, whereas in professional crime, the business is to perform criminal activity.

The criminal careers of most conventional criminals peak in their ______.

Identify two characteristics of occasional offenders.

Which type of fences is considered a major distributor of stolen goods?

A former employee sets fire to his former bosses home. This is an example of ______ arson.

Professional criminals are usually drug addicts.

______ theory is a particularly useful model for explaining shoplifting.

Professionals plan and carefully choose their victims to maximize the score and minimize risks.

Which type of fence sells stolen goods alongside legitimate merchandise?

"Paperhangers" engage in what form of crime?

Fraud is defined as the "making, altering, uttering or possessing, with intent to defraud, anything false which is made to appear true."

Which of the following is a characteristic of conventional criminals?

Which of the following theories view property crime as learned behavior in which the offender becomes socialized to engage in criminal activity?

Which of the following types of shoplifters concentrating on expensive items that can be quickly converted to cash by prearrangement with a "fence"?

Which of the following involves the willful destruction of property without the consent of the owner or agent of the owner?

Dealers in stolen property are referred to as ______.

Most occasional property criminals lack a past official history of criminality.