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

Compare and contrast the criminal careers of occasional and conventional offenders. Should the criminal justice response to these types of offenders vary? Support your answer.

Explain how routine activities theory can help explain property crimes and professional criminals.

Chop shops fall under which of the following motor vehcile theft typologies?

Shrinkage refers to losses owing to shoplifting, employee theft, vendor fraud, and administrative error.

An individual, who usually does not engage in crime, burglarizes a car because the opportunity presents itself. This describes which of the following types of burglars?

All of the following describe a conventional offender except that they ______.

Attorneys and bondsmen who use bribery to ward off prosecution are known as ______.

Larceny includes all of the following except ______.

"Known burglars" are called such because they ______.

Fencing operations describe police programs where law enforcement pose as dealers of stolen goods.

According to the model of profressional crime, which of the following is associated with amateur crime?

What role does the fence play in the criminal enterprise?

What are the four different types of professional fences and how do they differ?

Amateurs tend to freelance or be less tied to relatively permanent criminal organizations than their organized-crime counterparts.

Forgers often operate independently and are less a part of the world of professional criminals than some other offenders.

Which crime makes up the largest category of the UCR crime index?

Describe the crime of arson. How is it similar to other forms of property crime, and how is it distinct?

According to Cameron, most "snitches" ______.

Boosters represent the ______ class among profressional criminals.

"Professional crime" is a legal construct that is considered in sentencing.