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_____ is professional criminals who specialize in passing bad checks (paperhangers).

Systematic check forgers

None of these

Scientific

Theological

Answer

Correct Answer: Systematic check forgers

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Is snitches in Mary Cameron Owen’s study, amateur shoplifters?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the stealing of merchandise from stores.

Cannons

Residential mobility

None of these

Shoplifting

Answer

Correct Answer: Shoplifting

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_____ is defined as professionalism in crime is a matter of degree. The more criminals exhibit each characteristic of professional crime such as skill, high status, and the like, the more professional they are regarded.

All of these

Are not drug addicts usually

Do not have stable family lives

Professional crime, model of

Answer

Correct Answer: Professional crime, model of

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_____ is an occupation that exhibits esoteric knowledge and a service orientation and achieves autonomy of operation.

Profession

Denmark

Germany

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Profession

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Is paperhanging passing bad checks and other counterfeit documents?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as avocational criminals who do not identify with criminal careers. They typically steal or damage property on an infrequent basis.

Russia

Occasional property criminals

United States

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Occasional property criminals

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_____ is defined as those who pass bad checks in order to resolve a temporary financial crisis.

Triangulation

Reciprocity

Naive check forgers

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Naive check forgers

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_____ is in the Uniform Crime Reports, motor vehicle theft includes things such as motorcycle and boat thefts but not bicycle thefts.

Social disorganization theory

The American Revolution

Motor vehicle theft

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Motor vehicle theft

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Is larceny-theft miscellaneous property theft?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as sneak thieves who operate in stores and offices.

None of these

Farrington’s antisocial potential (AP) theory

Soft determinism

Heels

Answer

Correct Answer: Heels

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_____ is defined as act of forestalling legal actions through bribery and corruption.

All of these

The fix

Midwest

Misdemeanors

Answer

Correct Answer: The fix

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_____ is dealers in stolen property.

Fences

Pyramid

Argot

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Fences

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Is conventional criminals semiprofessional criminals who are generally unsuccessful at their trades of larceny and burglary?

False

True

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as one who has a lifelong involvement in crime.

Career criminal

None of these

How much crime is there?

Why are some areas more criminogenic than others?

Answer

Correct Answer: Career criminal

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_____ is defined as a name for professional pickpockets.

Residential mobility

Con artists

None of these

Cannon

Answer

Correct Answer: Cannon

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_____ is the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft.

Misdemeanors

Midwest

Burglary

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Burglary

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Is box men professional safecrackers?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as professional shoplifters.

Boosters

Overcriminalization

Undercriminalization

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Boosters

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_____ is defined as the purposeful setting of fires.

Mutual fund managers must ensure that shareholder proxies are voted in the best interest of investors.

Arson

All of these

Accountants will no longer be considered independent and objective.

Answer

Correct Answer: Arson

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_____ is the distinctive or specialized language of a group.

Churning

Argot

None of these

Pyramid

Answer

Correct Answer: Argot

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______ criminals tend to commit crimes like theft-larceny and burglary on a regular basis.

Conventional

Occasional

Career

Drug

Answer

Correct Answer: Conventional

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Which of the following is another term for a pickpocket?

Heels

Cannons

Boosters

Snitches

Answer

Correct Answer: Cannons

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

Larceny/theft

Vandalism

Arson

Robbery

Answer

Correct Answer: Larceny/theft

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Which of the following types of burglars are the least skilled thieves?

Young burglars

Junkies

Known burglars

Juvenile burglars

Answer

Correct Answer: Junkies

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Young burglars are under 16 years of age and prey on local neighborhood targets.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Which of the following is a characteristic of a professional criminal?

Seek fame

Rarely come into contact with law enforcement

Do not have stable family lives

Are not drug addicts usually

Answer

Correct Answer: Are not drug addicts usually

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Inventory shrinkage in the retail trade industry is also known as ______.

Shoplifting

Boosting

Snitching

Robbing

Answer

Correct Answer: Shoplifting

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______ represent the aristocracy of the professional criminal world.

Snitches

Boosters

Cannons

Con artists

Answer

Correct Answer: Con artists

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Which of the following passes bad checks or other documents?

Paper hangers

Snitches

Fences

Torch

Answer

Correct Answer: Paper hangers

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Conventional criminals tend to commit crimes of arson.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Roping the con refers to showing the victim how he or she can make big money dishonestly.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Pigeon drop cons prey on the affluent class.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Joyriding is a type of motor-vehicle theft.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ deal in stolen property.

Stings

Fences

Burglars

Snitches

Answer

Correct Answer: Fences

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