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| 5 types of property crimes |
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| burglary, fraud, larceny, motor vehicle theft, robbery, |
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| why is robbery an unusual crime? |
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| because it mixes 2 categories: violent and property crime |
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| how do robbers use violence? |
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| instrumentally; to get what they want |
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| what's the ratio of getting injured during a robbery? and depending on what? |
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| 1/3 of all victims injured. more likely if you resist and if the robber is unarmed |
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| 1 in ____ homicides happen during a robbery |
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| how many robberies are street robberies? |
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| what percentage of robbers have a firearm? |
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40%
40% are unarmed; strong arm robbery |
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| clearance rate for robbery |
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| #1 reason robbers say they have a weapon |
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| "i don't want to hurt anyone" |
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| unlawful entry of a structure to commit theft or other felony |
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| stealth; only gets you one year in prison |
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| what percent of burglaries are residential? why is there a gap in NCVS? |
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| 65%, but NCVS says 80% because businesses have insurance so they're likely to report it more. |
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| what is the periodicity of burglary and what makes a house more appealing? |
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| summer weekday during the day; high shrubbery, corner house, nobody home, single person or dual income households on outskirts of town |
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| clearance rate of burglary |
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| 5-10% because it's a cold crime |
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17, typically on foot
rule: value per pound |
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| vye scripts, roll of masking tape, screwdriver and loid |
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| most burglars enter homes through |
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| direct impact; least likely to pick the lock |
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| 3 top things burglars look to steal |
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| cash, rare American stamps, laptops/small electronics |
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| alarms don't work very well because APD says |
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| 99% of alarm calls are accidents |
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| taking and carrying away someone's property without use of force |
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| a crime where age distribution is different than any other crime |
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| shoplifting; peaks at 16-24; but increases 35-60 |
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| shops lose ____ of profit margin to |
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| 1/2 of profit margin to shoplifting; other 1/2 to employee theft |
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| bad bags, wrapped boxes with fake bottom, chain necklace, booster skirt, crotch worker |
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| are amateurs, no criminal record, usually plan to shoplift & usually have a list, do it for the rush, usually have the $ on them |
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| store policies on shoplifiting |
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| most won't prosecute, employees do nothing because of fear of legal trouble, it's dangerous & hard to prove mensrea |
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| a group of pickpockets is a |
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| most pickpockets won't touch |
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| women; they're professionals |
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| shoplifitng and pickpockets are types of |
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| how many cars stolen per year |
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| characteristics of auto theft |
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| really low clearance rate, high rate of reporting, 60% chance of recovery |
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| cars are likely to be found |
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| in shopping mall parking lots after hours, no damage |
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| what are the 5 types of car thieves |
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joyriders
short termers
long termers
felony related
professionals |
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| what type of thieves steal your car and you're likely to get it back? |
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| joyriders and short termers |
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| most famous criminologist who ever lived |
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| key to white collar crime |
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| crime committed by person of respectability and high social status in the course of his or her occupation |
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| 6 types of white collar crime |
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| price fixing, bid rigging, kickbacks, employee larceny, short changing and false repairs |
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| one case of this costs more than all robberies and burglaries |
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| what eliminates competition in capitalist economy? |
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| what type of WCC is a massive problem in our economy? |
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| employee larceny; 1/3 of employees do it |
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| do damage while fixing something, take advantage of women, and low ball |
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| principle differences between commercial robbery & burglary |
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| have to deal with crowd control; use devices to hide your fear, hide identity and create fear, have to use weapons and have to use element of surprise |
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| commercial robbers look for 2 kinds of people |
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| what is a favored type of hard evidence? |
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| eye witness; wrong 20-30% of the time |
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| groups that actually commit delinquent acts |
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| pool of potential co-offenders available |
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| group delinquency surveyed on |
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| longevity, specialization and instigation |
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| why does marriage lead to disistence to crime? |
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| disrupts peer network; less time with friends |
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| adolescents often communicate with other adolescents they've never met known as friendship groups or |
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| a powerful mechanism of peer influence is fear of |
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| burglary turns into robbery when there is a |
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| larceny turns into burglary when there is |
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| unlawful entry into a structure |
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| what % of robberies are bank robberies |
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| under 2%, still a lot though because of 400,000 robberies |
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| robbing a bank is a ____ crime |
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| chance of getting caught after robbing a bank is |
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| 85-90%; almost no professionals now |
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| bank robbery began during |
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| civil war era. south stole from north to fund war, found it lucrative so didn't stop |
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| bandits of the civil war era |
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| jesse james, butch cassidy, dalton brothers |
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| who caught bandits in civil war era? |
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bounty hunters; still more of them than public police in our society
famous ones= The Pinkertons |
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| great depression era of bandits |
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| pretty boy floyd, bonnie & clyde, john dillinger |
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| after WWII robberies plunge down, then rise in |
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| 1960s when baby boomers! 75 million babies born in 40s post WWII. also advent of branch banking in 60s |
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| in 1980s crime rates dropped in US and have been |
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| what ratio of bank robbers wear a disguise? |
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