Deviant Acts

Question 1

Exchange

Answer 1

Involves cooperation. Trades and Sales.

Question 2

Sales

Answer 2

Profit oriented. One party more involved than other. Require more knowledge/skill than trades

Question 3

Selling vs. Buying Models

Answer 3

Selling: Seller has power (drug dealing)
Buying: Buyer has power (fencing)

Question 4

Fencing

Answer 4

Buying goods and selling them

Question 5

Specialist Fence

Answer 5

Deals in very unusual products. Tend to be expensive. Need specialized knowledge/

Question 6

Generalist Fence

Answer 6

Wide range of merchandise (electronics, furniture, music, clothes) eBay, flee markets, etc.

Question 7

Life of a Fence

Answer 7

24 hour availability. Known to police. Consider how “hot” item is before buying. Waiting for the “big score.”

Question 8

Steps to the sale

Answer 8

1. Locate market 2. Terms? 3. Carry-out? 4. Protect?

Question 9

Deviant Exploitation

Answer 9

One person in deviant role (offender); one in respectable role (victim). Offender uses stealth, trickery, or physical force/threat of it to compel other to surrender goods/services.

Question 10

4 ways Exploit. differs from exchange

Answer 10

Only one deviant role. Not mutually profitable. Conflicting interests. Generates hostility between two parties.

Question 11

Extortion

Answer 11

Any exchange for sex, money, promotion, political favors, or other forms of powers in which the perpetrator threatens to harm the victim’s reputation, status, position, loved ones, or property, but not the physical self. (Undesirable exchange to avoid consequences) EX: mafia protection/blackmail, kidnapping.

Question 12

Fraud

Answer 12

Victim thinks it’s an exchange but it’s not. Victim is unaware of what is going on. Element of pressure and urgency.. Plays on people’s greed. EX: phone scams, real estate scams, con games.

Question 13

Coercion

Answer 13

Perp. uses force (or threat) to gain compliance from target. Victim is aware it is an exploitation & not going to get anything in return. Usually short duration. EX: Robbery, murder, rape, assault.

Question 14

Rape

Answer 14

Sexual intercourse (any orifice) with another person by use of force, or threat of force, or when victim is unable to give consent. College and high school=highest report rate

Question 15

Types of rape

Answer 15

Stranger, Acquaintance, Family. Closer the relationship between victim and perp, less likely to report

Question 16

Simple rape

Answer 16

No clear beating, no weapon, single assailant, previous relationship

Question 17

Aggravated rape

Answer 17

Beating and/or weapon, or no prior relationship, or multiple assailants

Question 18

Surreptitious Exploitation

Answer 18

Victim doesn’t know what is going on. When they discover what’s going on they define it as exploitation. Distract victim’s attention/short duration. EX: burglary, date rape, pick pocket, id thief

Question 19

Special Resources: Surreptitious Exploitation

Answer 19

Skills to distract/skills to extract, Knowledge/recon, Tools/equipment, Teamwork

Question 20

Roles of Pick-pocketing

Answer 20

The tool: steals stuff, The stall: distraction, The steerman: plots itinerary, books hotels, The boss: recruits, trains, overlaps w/ one of other roles

Question 21

Process of pick-pocketing

Answer 21

Selecting mark, fanning the mark, framing the mark, stealing, departure/hand off

Question 22

Defensive mode of entering deviance

Answer 22

Choosing the best of bad options. Don’t know what’s involved. EX: Kill your abusers, embezzlement, *loners enter this way

Question 23

Alcoholism

Answer 23

Defensive mode example. Intro, Forwarning stage (craving/neg. effects), Crucial (officially alcoholic), Chronic (physical addiction)

Question 24

Drift mode of entering deviance

Answer 24

Slowly socialized into deviance. Adventurous and recreational. Lured in by attraction of deviance EX: gangs, drugs, vandalism *peers/colleagues often enter this way

Question 25

Drug use

Answer 25

Drift mode example. Experimentation (learn to enjoy), occasional use, habitual use, futile effort to break habit, using drugs to escape problems

Question 26

Conscious decision mode of entering deviance

Answer 26

Weigh costs/benefits. Stable profits involved. EX: Road hustlers, pick pockets, legit careers.

Question 27

Deviant careers

Answer 27

compressed careers… Shoot up fast, shorter peaking. Favor attributes of youth.