Chapter 18: Crime Typologies Part 3

Question 1

What type of offenses are under the, Occasional Property Criminal Behavior, system?

Answer 1

forgery
shoplifting
vandalism
automobile theft

Question 2

What type of offenses are under the, Public-Order Criminal Behavior, system?

Answer 2

prostitution
homosexuality
drunkenness
drug use

Question 3

What type of offenses are under the, Political Criminal Behavior, system?

Answer 3

conspiracy and political demonstrations

Question 4

What type of offenses are under the, Professional Criminal Behavior, system?

Answer 4

confidence games
identity theft schemes
forgery
counterfeiting

Question 5

What is the major strength of Multi-Trait Typologies?

Answer 5

its use of multiple traits or dimensions for identifying crime types and its intuitive appeal to most criminologists

Question 6

What is crime syndrome?

Answer 6

are based on the composite profile of the offender, offense, and situational elements that underlie different types of crimes

Question 7

There are distinct subsets of crime syndromes within general crime categories that have unique __________.

Answer 7

signatures

Question 8

What are signatures?

Answer 8

different motives, offender/victim/situational elements

Question 9

What are the different crime syndromes?

Answer 9

(1) murder and assaults
(2) sexual assaults
(3) robbery (personal and institutional forms)
(4) burglary (residential and non-residential forms)
(5) motor vehicle theft
(6) occupational crimes
(7) organizational crimes
(8) public order crimes

Question 10

Crime syndromes are derived from the characteristics of the _______, the _______, and the _________ ________

Answer 10

offender
offense
situational context