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Ch 13 Flashcards

1
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What are the crimes listed/included in property crimes?

A

Burglary theft and fraud

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The entering of the structure for the purpose of committing a felony or theft

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Burglary

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3
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What is almost predominantly a crime where in the object of the crime is the breaking and entering a structure for the purpose of committing theft?

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Burglary

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4
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do used to separate the degrees of burglary?

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Some of the old essential elements of common law burglary

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According to uniform crime reports how many estimated burglaries were there in 2012?

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2,103,787

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6
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Percentage of burglaries that involved forcible entry

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59%

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Percentage of burglaries that involved unlawful entries without force

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34%

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This is a crime of opportunity and a crime of easy opportunity

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Burglary

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9
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Many burglaries limit their activities to a certain area and thus reduce

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The scope of the burglaries

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Burglary is usually what type of crime in that the burglar normally tries to avoid contact with victims?

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Passive crime

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11
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True or false

the chances of getting caught in in occupied structure are lower then being apprehended in an unoccupied structure

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False

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T/f
The chances of getting caught in an unoccupied structure are lower than the chances of being apprehended in an occupied structure

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True

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13
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Without an alarm to alert police of a crime in progress, no ——can take place

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Hot search

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When the criminal has fled the scene shortly before the police arrive, and the victim gives the police a physical description of the criminal, the vehicle, and of the direction of flight, thus giving the police the opportunity for a

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Warm search

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15
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When a victim does not know that his or her premises have been burglarized until sometime after the burger has fled the scene. This restricts the police apprehension process to the

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Cold portion of the crime solving process

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16
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The crime solving process is, commonly termed

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Investigative phase

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17
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Burglars usually are not apprehended at the scene of the crime or in-flight but must be apprehended as a result of what?

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Investigative process

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18
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List the two general types of burglars

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The amateur and the professional

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This type a burglar are those persons who work at burglary as a trade, making a living by burglary and Larsony alone and having no other means of income

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Professional burglars

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20
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This type of burglar includes the burglar who commits crimes primarily to secure money for drugs

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Amateur burglar

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21
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What is probably the most common serious crime in the united states?

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Burglary

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22
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List two types of burglars based on skill

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  1. the ability to gain entry to the premises
  2. the business sense of the burglar in regard to the selection of loot and the method of disposing of the proceeds of the crime
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23
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List the three types of burglar categories

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  1. unskilled number
  2. semiskilled
  3. professional
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24
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This type of entry of the burglar refers to when a burglar forces a door or window with a tool such as a tire iron, screwdriver, or small crowbar or box opener

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Jimmy entry

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25
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This type of burglar steps from the fire scape, balcony, or other building to a nearby window

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Step over burglar

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26
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This type of burger is in aerialist

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Step over burglar or human fly burglar

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27
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The step a burglar can progress upward or downward and on the sides of the building to selected point of entry

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Human fly burglar

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28
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This type of entry where the burglar breaks into a premises through and air-conditioning duct or on the roof or by cutting a hole in the roof of the building

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Roof entry

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29
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The burglar use his tools of various kinds to cut through the floor, ceiling, or wall of the store or office to another store office

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Cut in entry

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30
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This category of burglars are prowlers who enter a residence and search very rapidly for cash or property that is easily transported and quickly converted into cash

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Most unskilled or semiskilled burglars

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31
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This category of burglar deal in articles of value, but those articles are not as easily converted into cash and generally require the services of offense

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Semiskilled and the professional burglar

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32
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A receiver of stolen property.

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Fence

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33
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Typically stolen loot such as jewelry, furs, clothing, liquor, tobacco, me, and textiles require what

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A fence

Semiskilled and professional burglar

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34
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Stolen property such as stereo systems, DVD players, computers, and other items sold individuals seeking bargains or two persons who deal in and sell drugs do not require what?

A

A fence
Unskilled and semi skilled burglars steal these items
Considered easy to sell

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35
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The behavior of committing a burglary and, most likely, another and another and another. Burglaries usually are crimes in a series

A

Burglarizing

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36
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Like all behavior, burglary involves what?

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Needs and the opportunity to satisfy these needs

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37
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To understand the elements in the burglary cycle is to understand

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The behavior of burglars

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38
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What are two reasons the burglaries occur?

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Economic reasons and addiction to drugs

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39
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These type of burglars exhibit needs to satisfy various psychological and physical desires. They are abnormal and selecting forcible rape as an outlet, but they follow the burglars typical’s cycle of behavior and each successful crime is reinforcement for continuing this pattern of behavior

A

Rapist burglars

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40
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T/f

Most safe burglars will bring to the crime scene whatever special tools they need

A

True

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41
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A matter of safe entry, where a sledgehammer and a drift punch are used to knock the combination dial from the safe and drive the spindle back into the safe. This makes the release mechanism of the lock accessible and allows the safe to be open

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Punching

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42
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A device similar to a gear or wheel puller is used to pool the dial or spindle completely out of the safe door, thus allowing the safe to be open (similar to punching)

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Pulling

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43
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Involves prying off the outer surface of the safe door so that the locking mechanism of the safe is exposed and can be pried open, allowing entry to the safe

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Peeling

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44
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Involves the battering of the top, bottom, or sides of the safe with the chisel or other metal cutter such as a ripping bar (burglar’s tool) or the hydraulic ramming device used in a body and fender shop

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Ripping

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45
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One or more holes are drilled in the door of the safe to expose the lock mechanism, allowing the safe breaker to align the lock tumblers manually and open the door of the safe

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Drilling

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46
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The safe is attacked with an oxygen acetylene torch, and a section of the safe is burned out to allow entry. When bank vaults are involved, a variation of this burning technique is the use of a thermal burn burning bar that makes the original oxygen acetylene torch much more efficient so that it is possible to burn through 6 inch tempered steel in 15 to 20 seconds

A

Burning

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47
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The use of explosives to open safes

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Blasting

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48
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Occurs when the burglar removes the safe in order to open it and a more convenient location

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Carrying away

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49
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What is the purpose of the burglar scene investigation?

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To ascertain what clues or traces at the scene that may identify the burglar and crime partners

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50
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The development of leads from Connect ups and a comparison of modus operandi with other crimes either solved or unsolved, which tends to identify one or more suspects as the offender in a series of crimes which the burglar being investigated is the latest

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Postscene investigation

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51
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Although these are classic avenues of investigation to identify suspects in burglary investigations, they offer little or no admissible prosecution evidence that a particular suspect committed the particular burglary under investigation

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Connect ups and the use of informants

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52
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What is more promising potential evidence then connect ups and the use of informants?

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The identification of the seller of stolen property

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53
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A common law definition as a trespassory taking and carrying away of personal property belonging to another with intent to deprive the owner of such property permanently

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Larceny

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54
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Defined in most states as the unlawful taking or stealing of property or articles without the use of force or violence includes shoplifting, pocket picking, purse snatching without strong arm tactics, that’s of and from vehicles, and taking property or cash from home

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Larceny (theft)

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55
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Theft or attempted theft of property or cash from residence or the immediate vicinity of the residence is —————. that thief must have a legal right to be in the house as a guest or made for example

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Household larceny

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56
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The theft or attempted theft of property or cash by still in either of the following manners:

  1. with contact but without force or threat of force
  2. Without direct contact between the victim and the offender
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Personal crimes of theft (personal larceny)

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57
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Or attempted theft of property or cash directly from the victim by stealth but not by force or the threat of force

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Personal larceny with contact

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58
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What were the rate of that in 2012 for larceny?

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1,959 Per 100,000 inhabitants

59
Q

What is the most commonly committed crime in the United States?

A

Larceny

60
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That’s that account for approximately 68% of all property crimes

A

Larceny

61
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The average loss of larceny per offense

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$987

62
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Total loss of larceny

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$6 billion

63
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Percentage of cases they were cleared by arrest or exceptional clearance for larceny

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22%

64
Q

True or false

Person to buy stolen property quite frequently reveal the identity of the thief

A

True

65
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These type of cases are difficult to solve because of the lack of eyewitnesses

A

Theft cases

66
Q

Time is likely to favor a

A

Criminal

67
Q

What aspect of theft can focus of an investigation can aid the thief’s escape in the safe disposal of stolen property

A

Time

68
Q

Property crimes are committed for the personal gain of the

A

Perpetrator

69
Q

Why are Modus operandi searches rewarding in theft investigations?

A

Because thieves are known as single patter offenders

70
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What type of searching Will identify a group of suspects as persons actively engaged in committing property crimes it will produce a number of suspects for the crime being investigated?

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Modus operandi searching

71
Q

What is the key to an early break in property crime investigation?

A

The expanded modus operandi search to include the decision-making process exhibited by the criminal in his or her operation

72
Q

What is an affective investigative technique for theft?

A

Tracing from receiver to thief

73
Q

Who are the Intermediaries of larceny?

A

Fences

74
Q

An investigative technique in property crimes aimed at the wholesale identification and apprehension of thieves

A

Storefront or sting technique

75
Q

Amount of estimated motor vehicles stolen in 2012

A

721,053

76
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Average loss for motor vehicle thefts

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$6,020

77
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Percentage of vehicles stolen that were automobiles

A

73%

78
Q

The general term used by police in describing larceny of motor vehicles

A

Auto theft

79
Q

Usually host to several other juveniles. They abandon vehicle when it runs out of gas or the tire of it

A

Joyriding juvenile

80
Q

This thief borrows a car for transportation, sometimes to cross state lines or for a lengthy period and abandons the vehicle when it is serve the thieves purpose

A

The transportation thief

81
Q

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

A

Strippers

82
Q

Steal a car, tow or drive it to a chop shop, and have it cut up for most of its parts

A

Dismantlers

83
Q

The armed robbery of a person in possession of an automobile or other motor vehicle

A

Carjacking

84
Q

Joyriders and transportation thieves are considered

A

Amateur car thieves

85
Q

What type of car thief seek automobiles with keys in the lock for the car doors unlocked?

A

Amateur car thieves such as joyriders and transportation thieves

86
Q

Which type of car thief uses tools such as dent pullers and slide hammers or a set of master keys to enter a locked car and Defeat the ignition lock?

A

Professional thieves

87
Q

What contribute to the growth of “hot parts”

A

The current high prices for vehicle accessories and components

88
Q

What does PVIN mean

A

Public vehicle identification number

89
Q

CVIN stand for?

A

Confidential vehicle identification number

90
Q

The term business uses for the loss of inventory from employee theft

A

Shrinkage

91
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What is the result of shrinkage?

A

The resulting loss is transferred to the consumer in the form of higher cost for products and services

92
Q

The three categories of employee theft

A

Incidental
situational
continual

93
Q

Involves those instances when employees consume employers product while on the job or take-home items such as pens and pencils at the end of the day The cost is minor

A

Incidental theft

94
Q

How do most businesses do with incidental theft?

A

Most businesses deal with this type of employee theft do disciplinary measures and assume the loss as the price of doing business

95
Q

Involves those instances when the employee is presented with an opportunity for theft that, in the employees mind, must be acted on

A

Situational theft

96
Q

Truck drivers who at the end of the route have extra merchandise that have an opportunity to take that merchandise is an example of which type of theft

A

Situational theft

97
Q

The restaurant manager who is called away to handle an emergency while counting the previous days receipt inadvertently leaves the office door open. In employee Acts on the opportunity, and the manager returns to find that some of or all of the money is missing

A

Situational theft

98
Q

Involves ongoing, constant acts of theft by an employee

A

Continual theft

99
Q

This type of theft is usually motivated by the need to support a vice of the employee, such as gambling, drugs, or alcohol

A

Continual theft

100
Q

These thieves Fill a shopping cart up with expensive goods, such as DVDs are baby formula, or simply grab an arm full of expensive clothing and walk out of the store without paying for the merchandise

A

Organized retail theft

101
Q

These thieves steel often what is directed by the needs of fences, people who buy still in merchandise

A

Organized retail theft

102
Q

How much does a fence typically pay For stolen goods?

A

$.30 on the dollar for stolen goods

103
Q

AcCording to the FBI what is the combined loss for burglary, larceny, robbery, and auto theft combined?

A

Between 30 and $37 billion a year

104
Q

What are the common methods of committing cargo theft?

A

Car jacking, truckstops, dropped or unattended trailers, deceptive pick ups

105
Q

Which type of cargo theft is when the Thieves follow a targeted truck and wait for the driver to stop or force the driver to stop the vehicle. The thieves, who may be armed, board the truck and order the driver out of the vehicle and then drive off with the truck and merchandise

A

High jacking

106
Q

When the driver pulls off the highway to eat, rest, or get fuel, they may be approached by thieves and offered money to give up their truck. The thieves May also wait until the driver is away from the vehicle then breaking, manipulate the ignition system and drive off with the vehicle

A

Truck stops

107
Q

This method of cargo theft where cargo -sit in transportation yards waiting to be unloaded were transported to another location thieves with their own stolen truck pulled up to the trailer, hook it up to the tractor and drive off

A

Dropped or unattended trailers

108
Q

The cargo theft where the thieves assume the identity of a legitimate cargo carrier and have a cargo container loaded on there stolen tractor and drive off with the contents

A

Deceptive pickups

109
Q

What are the most popular targets for cargo thieves?

A

Shipments of pharmaceuticals
Consumer electronics
Clothing and
food

110
Q

What is the estimated amount cargo thieves are responsible for stealing annually?

A

$30 billion in merchandise annually

111
Q

A nonviolent crimes involving elements of intentional deceit, concealment, corruption, misrepresentation, and abusive trust to gain the property of another, and it is often facilitated by the willing cooperation of unaware or unknowing victim

A

Fraud

112
Q

A covert scheme with the lower profile overt thefts or violent crimes

A

Fraud

113
Q

T/f

Fraud in the United States is on the increase

A

True

114
Q

A new occupational specialty in commercial and industrial employment

A

Fried auditing

115
Q

A street bunco that requires a minimum number of props: pocketbook or envelope and a sizable amount of cash

A

Pigeon drop or pocketbook drop

116
Q

This is a scheme in which a victim is conned into withdrawing a large sum of money from the bank account to show financial responsibility. In the presence of the potential victim, one of the swimmers apparently finds a pocketbook or envelope filled with money (500-2500). As the victim starts to discuss the swindlers apparent good fortune, the second swindler shows up. Assuming the role of a stranger who just happen to witness the find and wants to be part of it, the second swimmer joins in the excited talk that makes the victim a partner in a plan to withhold the money from its owner until the origin of this amount of cash can be determined. They asked the victim to hold the money, but also show cash equal to the amount found

A

Pigeon drop or pocketbook drop

117
Q

Variation of the pigeon drop used by swimmers who had the potential victim unlikely to be motivated by greed. The swindlers convince the victim to hold the money for a sick or dying person. If the owner of the money does not recover, the victim can use the money for his or her or her favorite charity. The victim is asked to show financial responsibility in good faith

A

Charity switch

118
Q

Is swindle in which the swindler claims of access to information regarding fixed horse races. Three or 4 Bettor Victims Place large bets on horses that the swindler bets will win a selected race. If one of the horses wins, the winning bettor shares the winnings with the swindler

A

Payoff

119
Q

A person who, by false misrepresentation, persuades another to bet on a horse race

A

Tout

120
Q

The name given to Victims in a payoff swindle

A

Ropers, sucker, mark

121
Q

A street bunco in which each victim may be taken only for small amounts of money, but the overall profit to the swindles is huge

A

Carnival bunco

122
Q

An ego building swindle based on the hidden desire of many people to serve as a secret agent for the police

A

Bank examiner fraud

123
Q

NSF stand for?

A

Not sufficient funds

124
Q

Marketplace swindles in which the buyer or investor is defrauded by the swindlers misrepresentation

A

Consumer and business fraud

125
Q

Advertise merchandise bargains lure customers into a merchants place of business. Sales personnel then run down the advertisements and switch the customer to a higher price item of allegedly better quality

A

Bait and switch

126
Q

Includes overcharging for services performed; charging for services not performed or parts not replaced; failing to provide labor and materials as agreed; and charging for labor or materials not needed or discussed with the customer, or within the scope of the customer’s agreement

A

Repair fraud

127
Q

Failing to give the TruE facts about product performance, warranties, credit charges, or other hidden costs

A

Misrepresentation

128
Q

The base of all investment frauds

A

Ponzi scheme or kiting

129
Q

The swindler uses money invested by new victim to pay a high interest on the investments of earlier victims whose money the swindler has appropriated to his own use, rather than investing it as claimed in the sales pitch given to the victim

A

Ponzi scheme

130
Q

When does a Ponzi scheme collapse?

A

When the swindler runs out of victims

131
Q

Who are the common victims of securities fraud?

A

High income professionals and persons approaching the threshold of retirement

132
Q

How are victim selected securities fraud?

A

On the basis of their liquid or convertible assets

133
Q

Based on promises to victims of rapid capital growth and a high and quick rate of return in dividends, as well as special advantagessuch as Tax shelter

A

Securities fraud

134
Q

Based on the swindlers misrepresentations about the value and future development of worthless, unimproved land

A

Land sale frauds

135
Q

Frauds that victimize business people who are having problems securing loans from local banks or other lending institutions

A

Advance fee frauds

136
Q

The swindler claims to have access to loan officers or out of town banks for the mortgage loan officials of a labor union pension fund.

A

Advance fee

137
Q

Involve false claims of insolvency. Used by organized crime personnel to lose the assets of the business.

A

Bankruptcy fraud

138
Q

These types of frauds are not common in the world of commerce and business

A

Insurance fraud

139
Q

Who is the victim in insurance fraud?

A

The insurer

140
Q

The conversion of another’s property over which the thief has custody or control

A

Embezzlement

141
Q

Exemplifies use of a computer as an essential tool for accomplishing that totaled $100 million loss to customers, stockholders, and others

A

Equity funding fraud

142
Q

auto thief that steals late model automobiles and resells them. sometimes the vehicle is transported to another state and registered with forged documents

A

professional auto thieves

143
Q

favorite places of the professional thief to transport vehicles

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mexico and south america

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