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_____ is defined as the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle.

All of these

Motor Vehicle Theft

National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

Recidivism

Answer

Correct Answer: Motor Vehicle Theft

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_____ is the unlawful taking, leading, or riding away from the possession or constructive possession of another.

Larceny-Theft

Neutralization

Drift

All of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Larceny-Theft

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Is home invasion a type of breaking and entering into a residential home in which the express purpose is to catch occupants at home so that criminals can rob, rape, or assault the occupants as well as steal their property?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as obtaining the money or property of another through deceptive practices such as false advertising, impersonation, and other misrepresentations.

Decrease

Increase

Fraud

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Fraud

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_____ is defined as the creation or alteration of documents to give them the appearance of legality and validity with the intention of gaining some fraudulent benefit from doing so.

Mala prohibita

Mala in se

Forgery

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Forgery

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_____ is a person who regularly buys stolen property for resale and who often has a legitimate business to cover his activities.

Self-Control

Fence

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Fence

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Is counterfeiting the creation or altering of currency?

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle from its occupant by force or threat of force.

1980s

1960s

Carjacking

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Carjacking

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

Positive

All of these

Criminal

Burglary

Answer

Correct Answer: Burglary

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_____ is any willful or malicious burning or attempting to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, or personal property of another.

1960s

None of these

Arson

1990s

Answer

Correct Answer: Arson

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What occurs when an attacker stages what appears to be an accident, simulates an injury to get a victim to stop to assist, and then takes the vehicle once the victim stops?

Bump

Good Samaritan

Ruse

Trap

Answer

Correct Answer: Good Samaritan

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An offender steals a $1500 laptop from an unlocked vehicle. This crime is best identified as ______.

Carjacking.

Grand theft.

Petty theft.

Pirating.

Answer

Correct Answer: Grand theft.

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Robbery is the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony inside.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Most shoplifters are ______.

Impulsive amateurs who steal relatively inexpensive items

Kleptomaniacs who steal because they can’t help themselves

Professionals who steal as their primary source of income

Professionals who have been recruited by large theft rings

Answer

Correct Answer: Impulsive amateurs who steal relatively inexpensive items

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Most arson is committed by females.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Johnny owns a convenience store, but uses the business to cover for his activities in buying and selling stolen goods. Johnny would most appropriately be identified as a ______.

Fence

Jockey

Snitch

Pimp

Answer

Correct Answer: Fence

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Which crime is one of the three childhood behaviors that is often used by experts to predict violence in adulthood?

Arson

Burglary

Hacking

Shoplifting

Answer

Correct Answer: Arson

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Counterfeiting is a subcategory of forgery.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The category of motor vehicle theft only entails the theft of cars, trucks, and buses; thefts of snowmobiles and motorcycles are separately classified as larceny.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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______ is the term to refer to those who compulsively shoplift.

Booster

Fence

Hacker

Kleptomaniac

Answer

Correct Answer: Kleptomaniac

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______ is defined by the FBI as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft.

Burglary

Larceny

Piracy

Robbery

Answer

Correct Answer: Burglary

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What is a technique of embezzlement that involves stealing just a few cents each from a large number of accounts?

Counterfeiting

Pirating

Salami technique

Uttering

Answer

Correct Answer: Salami technique

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______ is the passing of a document to another with knowledge of its falsity with the intent to defraud.

Forgery

Uttering

Fraud

Counterfeiting

Answer

Correct Answer: Uttering

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Most cases of ______ are committed by juveniles for fun.

Burglary

Motor vehicle theft

Phishing

Piracy

Answer

Correct Answer: Motor vehicle theft

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Purse snatching is the most common form of larceny/theft in the United States.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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