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THIRD EDITION
Crimes Against Persons—
What We Fear
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Chapter Objectives
• Describe the major national crime-
data-gathering programs and explain
the differences between them.
• Summarize various types and patterns
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• Provide a closer look at the crime of
murder.
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Chapter Objective
• Define serial murder and list the
different types of serial killers.
• Explain how mass murder differs from
serial murder and list the different
types of mass murderers.
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Chapter Objectives
- 3. • Show how definitions of rape differ and
describe the various perspectives that
have been offered to explain the crime
of rape.
• Summarize the various types and
patterns of rape and violence against
women.
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Chapter Objectives
• Describe the types and patterns of child
physical and sexual abuse.
• Describe the crime of robbery.
• Compare the different types of assault.
• Describe other violent crimes, including
hate crimes, workplace violence, and
stalking.
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Learning Objective 9.1
Describe the major national crime-data-
gathering programs and explain the
differences between them.
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Crime Data Programs
• Bureau of Justice conducts the annual
National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS).
• FBI publishes yearly data under
summary based Uniform Crime
Reporting (UCR) program and more
detailed National Incident Based
Reporting System (NIBRS).
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Crime Data Programs
• Each program uses their own definition
of what is scored as a crime.
• None of the definitions used by the
reporting agencies is strictly based on
federal or state statutory crime
classifications.
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Learning Objective 9.2
Summarize the various types and
patterns of murder.
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FIGURE 9-1 Violent Crimes and Their Definitions.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime
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Types and Patterns of Murder
Homicide vs. Murder
• Homicide is the willful
killing of one human
being by another.
• Murder is an unlawful
homicide.
• Criminal homicide is
the causing of the
death of another
person without legal
justification or excuse.
Types and Patterns of Murder
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• Types of murder
-degree murder
-degree murder
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Types and Patterns of Murder
• Felony Murder
an offender who commits a crime during
which someone dies can be found guilty
of first-degree murder even though the
person committing the crime had no
intention of killing anyone
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Types and Patterns of Murder
• Distinctive patterns of homicide
can be identified by:
ographic region.
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Types and Patterns of Murder
• Distinctive patterns of homicide
can be identified by:
lity of weapons and weapons
used,
-offender relationship.
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Types and Patterns of Murder
• The Subculture of Violence Thesis
used to explain the similarity between
homicide victims and offenders
• African Americans are disproportionately
represented in the homicide statistics as
both victims and offenders.
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Learning Objective 9.3
Provide a closer look at the crime of
murder.
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Murder
• Marvin Wolfgang study (1958)
family members.
both offenders and victims within this
category.
lled by friends
and strangers than by family.
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Murder
• Sibling Offense
• Incident may be a crime, such as
robbery, or another incident, such as a
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Murder
• Victim Precipitation
e
criminal event, especially those that led
to its initiation
• The thrust of the concept is not to blame
the victim for the event, but to examine
individual and situational factors that
may have contributed to and initiated the
crime.
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Murder
Instrumentality vs. Availability
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Learning Objective 9.4
Define serial murder and list the
different types of serial killers.
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Serial Murder
• A criminal homicide that involves the
killing of several victims in three or
more separate incidents
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Serial Murder
- 13. • Types of serial killers
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Learning Objective 9.5
Explain how mass murder differs from
serial murder and list the different types
of mass murderers.
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Mass Murder and Serial Murder
- 14. • Mass Murder
ore
individuals in a single event or during a
short period of time
• Mass murderers tend to surprise their
victims because they often attack in
everyday locales that are considered safe
and because they erupt spontaneously.
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Mass Murder and Serial Murder
• Typology of Mass Murder
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Mass Murder and Serial Murder
• Unlike serial murders, mass murderers
are usually easy to apprehend.
• Mass murderers rarely leave the scene
of their crime either because they
commit suicide or stay long enough to
be detected.
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Learning Objective 9.6
Show how definitions of rape differ and
describe the various perspectives that
have been offered to explain the crime of
rape.
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- 16. Rape
• The penetration, no matter how slight,
of the vagina or anus with any body
part or object, or oral penetration by a
sex organ of another person, without
the consent of the victim
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Rape
• Forcible Rape
forcibly and against their will
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Rape
• The risk of sexual assault victimization
for both females and males varies
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FIGURE 9-7 Sexual Assault Victimization Rates by Age and
Sex.
Source: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention,
Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2006 National
Report (Washington, DC: OJJDP, 2006), p. 31.
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Rape
• Theoretical Perspectives on Rape
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Rape
• Feminist Perspective on Rape
construct, rather than as a biological
given.
domination in which the tool used to
subordinate is sexual.
to the power dynamics that occur in
rapes.
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Rape
• The Psychopathological Perspective on
Rape
- 19. • Rape is the result of idiosyncratic mental
disease.
• Rape often includes an uncontrollable
sexual impulse.
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Rape
• Power Rape
to harm the
victim
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Rape
- 20. • Anger Rape
victim
lly impulsive
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Rape
• Sadistic Rape
anger motives
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• The Evolutionary/Biological Perspective
on Rape
that are conducive to rape
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Rape
• Sexual Selection
appear to survive not because they are
related to survival, but because they
increase the attraction of mates or the
defense against competition over mates
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Rape
- 22. • Common law definition of rape
knowledge of a woman, not
one's wife, by force or against her will
• This definition was used until the 1970s.
• The law did not recognize rape of men or
rape within marriage.
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Rape
• Rape Shield Laws
victims by ensuring that defendants did
not introduce irrelevant facts about the
victim's sexual past into evidence
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Learning Objective 9.7
- 23. Summarize the various types and
patterns of rape and violence against
women.
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Types and Patterns of Rape
and Violence Against Women
• Acquaintance Rape
although not necessarily intimate or
familial, relationship between the victim
and the perpetrator
• The vast majority of rapes occur when
the victim and the offender have some
prior relationship.
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and Violence Against Women
• Spousal Rape
woman by her husband.
• Not illegal in any state until 1976
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Types and Patterns of Rape
and Violence Against Women
• Four-Part Typology of Men Who
Rape Their Wives
are indifferent about which it is
efer consensual sex but will rape
when their sexual advances are refused
act on their desires
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Types and Patterns of Rape and
Violence Against Women
• The Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
of 2003
incidents of rape in prison
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Learning Objective 9.8
Describe the types and patterns of child
physical and sexual abuse.
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Child Physical and Sexual Abuse
• Child Sexual Abuse
civil offenses in which an adult engages
in sexual activity with a minor, exploits
a minor for purposes of sexual
gratification, or exploits a minor
sexually for purposes of profit
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Child Physical and Sexual Abuse
• The NIJ reports that sexual offenses are
more likely than other types of crime to
elude the attention of the criminal
justice system. Why do you think that
is?
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Child Physical and Sexual Abuse
• Types of Child Sexual Abusers
pedophiles are male.
said about similarities among child sex
abusers.
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Child Physical and Sexual Abuse
• Regressed Pedophiles vs. Fixated
Pedophiles
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Child Physical and Sexual Abuse
• Child Pornography
- 28. kind that
depicts a minor engaging in sexually
explicit conduct that is obscene and that
lacks serious literary, artistic, political,
or scientific value
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Learning Objective 9.9
Describe the crime of robbery.
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Robbery
• The taking of or attempting to take
anything of value under confrontational
circumstances from the control,
custody, or care of another person by
force or threat of force or violence
and/or putting the victim in fear of
immediate harm
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Robbery
• Large metropolitan areas have the
highest rates of robbery, while rural
areas have the lowest.
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Robbery
• Location of Robberies
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Robbery
• The weapon most often used in robbery
is a firearm.
handgun.
homicides annually and 42% of all
felony murders.
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Robbery
• The Motivation of Robbers
there is very little planning in most
robberies.
• Fast cash is the direct need that robbery
satisfies.
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Robbery
• The Gendered Nature of Robbery
robbers.
• Presence of a gun was almost a constant.
• Males tend to rob other men rather than
women because of the perception that
men carried more money.
• Female robbers do not exhibit one clear
style.
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Learning Objective 9.10
Compare the different types of assault.
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Assault
• Two Types of Assault
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Assault
• Aggravated Assault
another wherein the offender uses a
weapon or displays it in a threatening
manner, or the victim suffers obvious or
severe bodily injury
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Assault
• Aggravated Assault
assault offender is:
• African-American male.
• 15 to 34 years old.
• Lower socioeconomic status.
• Prior arrest records.
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Assault
• The probability of suffering a serious
personal crime by strangers is low.
- 34. • The majority of assaults involve victims
and offenders who are known to each
other.
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Assault
• Intimate Partner Violence
that includes sexual violence, physical
abuse, and stalking committed by a
current or former partner or spouse of
the victim
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Assault
• Intimate Partner Assault
-neutral term used to
characterize assaultive behavior that
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in an intimate relationship
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Assault
• Separation Assault
significant others who attempt to leave
an intimate relationship
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Assault
• Female victims experience multiple
forms of interpersonal violence.
• National Intimate Partner and Sexual
Violence survey found most rape and
interpersonal violence incidents are first
experienced before age 24.
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Learning Objective 9.11
Describe other violent crimes, including
hate crimes, workplace violence, and
stalking.
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Workplace Violence
• Workplace Violence
and assault committed against persons
who are at work or on duty
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Workplace Violence
• Four Types of Workplace Violence
• Violent acts by criminals who have no
other connection with the workplace, but
enter to commit robbery, acts of
terrorism, or another crime
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Workplace Violence
• Four Types of Workplace Violence
• Violence directed at employees by
customers, clients, patients, students,
inmates, or any others for whom an
organization provides services
- 38. • Violence against coworkers, supervisors,
or managers by a present or former
employee
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Workplace Violence
• Four Types of Workplace Violence
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• Violence committed in the workplace by
someone who doesn't work there, but
has a personal relationship with an
employee, such as an abusive spouse or
domestic partner
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- 39. Hate Crime
• A criminal offense in which the motive
is hatred, bias, or prejudice based on
the actual or perceived race, color
religion, national origin, ethnicity,
gender, or sexual orientation of another
individual or group of individuals
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Stalking
• A course of conduct directed at a
specific person that involves repeated
visual or physical proximity;
nonconsensual communication; verbal,
written, or implied threats; or a
combination thereof that would cause a
reasonable person to fear
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FIGURE 9-14 A Psychiatric Typology of Stalker Types.
- 40. Source: Based on “A Psychiatric Typology of Stalker Types” by
Paul E. Mullen from Study of Stalkers. Copyright
© 1999.
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Stalking
• Cyberstalking
and the Internet, to harass individuals
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Chapter Summary
• The Bureau of Justice Statistics
conducts the National Crime
Victimization Survey (NCVS), and
Federal Bureau of Investigation
publishes its summary-based Uniform
Crime Reporting (UCR) and more
detailed National Incident Based
- 41. Reporting System (NIBRS).
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Chapter Summary
• Homicide is the willful killing of one
human being by another, whereas
murder is an unlawful homicide.
• A closer look at homicide statistics tell
us about the nature of the relationship
between the victim and offender, types
of weapons used, and most likely time
and location of occurrence.
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Chapter Summary
- 42. • Serial murder is criminal homicide that
involves the killing of several victims in
three or more separate events.
• Mass murder involves the killing of a
number of victims at the same location
and within a compressed time frame.
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Chapter Summary
• Contemporary definitions of rape tend
to be gender-neutral and count a
variety of specific acts of sexual
violence under the category of rape.
continued on next slide
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Chapter Summary
- 43. • Acquaintance rape is the most common
scenario for pates.
• Child abuse varies in terms of the age
and gender of the child, kind of abuse,
and who commits it.
• Robbery is classified as a violent crime
because it involves the treat or use of
force.
continued on next slide
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Chapter Summary
• The four types of assault discussed in
this chapter are aggravated assault,
simple assault, intimate partner
assault, and stranger assault.
• Three special forms of interpersonal
violence are workplace violence, hate
crimes, and stalking.
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THIRD EDITION
Crimes Against
Property—It's What We
Lose
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Chapter Objectives
• Summarize the nature and pattern of
property crime.
• Describe the crime of burglary and
various forms of burglary.
• Describe the crime of larceny-theft and
the various kinds of theft.
- 45. • Describe identity theft and some of the
techniques used by identity thieves.
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Chapter Objectives
• Describe the crime of motor vehicle
theft.
• Summarize the characteristics of arson.
• Distinguish between persistent and
professional thieves.
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Chapter Objectives
- 46. • Expound upon the three basic
categories of burglars and detail the
process of target selection in burglary.
• Characterize burglars and their
motivation.
• Describe the role and various types of
fences and criminal receivers.
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Learning Objective 10.1
Summarize the nature and pattern of
property crime.
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The Extent and Patterning
of Property Crime
• Both the Uniform Crime Report and the
National Crime Victimization Survey
- 47. report data on property crimes.
• According to the FBI, major property
crimes are burglary, larceny, motor
vehicle theft, and arson.
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Learning Objective 10.2
Describe the crime of burglary and
various forms of burglary.
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Burglary
• The unlawful entry into a structure of
the purpose of felony commission,
generally a theft
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FIGURE 10-2 Types of Burglary.
Source: Jennifer Hardison Walters, et al., “Household Burglary,
1994–2011” (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice
Statistics, 2013).
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Burglary
• Rates of burglary were generally higher
for African-American households,
regardless of family income level.
• Most burglaries involved forcibly entry.
• Most residential burglaries occur during
the day, a time when residents are
unlikely to be home.
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FIGURE 10-3 The Social Ecology of Burglary.
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Burglary
• Residential Burglary
independent of race, the highest-income
households and the lowest income
households in areas both within and
outside the central city had the highest
victimization risk.
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Burglary
• Residential Burglary
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on the decision to move than do violent
crimes.
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Learning Objective 10.3
Describe the crime of larceny-theft and
the various kinds of theft.
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Larceny-Theft
• Defined by the UCR program as the
unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or
riding away of property from the
possession, or constructive possession,
of another
• Just about anything can be stolen.
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Larceny-Theft
• Larceny is the most frequently
occurring property offense according to
official data compiled by the FBI and
data from the NCVS.
• Larceny-theft does not involve the use
of force or other means of illegal entry.
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FIGURE 10-4 Larceny-Theft Distribution, 2012.
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Crime in the United
States, 2012.
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Larceny-Theft
• Retail Theft
other theft is committed by store
employees.
• Technology represents one of the best
ways to address both shoplifting and
employee theft.
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Larceny-Theft
• Who Shoplifts?
-report techniques revealed almost
two-thirds of the sample had shoplifted
at some point in their lifetime.
• Youth from lower-income households are
more likely to shoplift than their higher-
income counterparts.
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• Who Shoplifts?
-report techniques revealed almost
two-thirds of the sample had shoplifted
at some point in their lifetime.
• The relationship between social class and
likelihood of shoplifting is stronger
among adults.
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Larceny-Theft
• Flash Mobs and Larceny
people brought together on a moment's
notice through the use of social media
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• 10% of retail establishments report being
victimized by multiple offenders who
formed flash mobs.
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Learning Objective 10.4
Describe identity theft and some of the
techniques used by identity thieves.
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Identity Theft
• Identity Theft
personal information to commit fraud
• Identity theft involves obtaining credit,
merchandise, or services by fraudulent
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Identity Theft
• Existing account fraud vs. new account
fraud
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Identity Theft
• Consumers' fears of becoming identity
theft victims can also harm the digital
economy.
• Identity Theft and Assumption
Deterrence Act (1998) is the first
federal law to make identity theft a
crime.
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Identity Theft
• The Identity Theft Penalty
Enhancement Act (2004) added two
years to federal prison sentences for
criminals convicted of using stolen card
numbers and other personal data to
commit crimes.
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Identity Theft
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
definition of identity theft
rized use or attempted use
of existing credit cards
of other existing accounts
obtain new accounts
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Identity Theft
• Identity Thieves: Who They Are
criminal background and sometimes
they have preexisting relationships with
the victims.
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Learning Objective 10.5
Describe the crime of motor vehicle
theft.
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Motor Vehicle Theft
• The theft or attempted theft of a motor
vehicle
transportation, including automobiles,
buses, motorcycles, and snow mobiles.
• The largest percent of motor vehicle
thefts were stolen from a parking lot or
garage.
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Motor Vehicle Theft
• Theft of Car Parts
sum on the illegal market and can be
sold easily.
• Joyriders: Car Theft for Fun
to satisfy needs ranging from
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Learning Objective 10.6
Summarize the characteristics of arson.
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Arson
• Any willful or malicious burning or
attempt to burn a dwelling house,
public building, motor vehicle or
aircraft, personal property of another
origin are not included in the FBI's
arson statistics.
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Arson
• Fire Setters
arson are juveniles.
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Arson
• Three general groups of juvenile fire
setters
fires by accident or out of curiosity
may start out of curiosity, or due to an
underlying psychosocial conflict
a history of fire setting, usually
undetected
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Learning Objective 10.7
Distinguish between persistent and
professional thieves.
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Persistent vs. Professional Thieves
• Many thieves are persistent, but this
does not make them professionals.
• Professional Criminal
from criminal pursuits, is recognized by
other offenders as professional, and
engages in offending that is planned
and calculated
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Persistent vs. Professional Thieves
• Persistent Thief
crimes despite no better than an
ordinary level of success
• Occasional Offender
criminal offender whose offending
patters are guided primarily by
opportunity
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Persistent vs. Professional Thieves
• The Criminal Careers of Property
Offenders
through defined stages, with some type
of planning or formalized logic to the
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Persistent vs. Professional Thieves
• The Criminal Careers of Property
Offenders
consists of three distinct phases:
• "Break-in" Period
• "Stable" Period
• "Burnout" Phase
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• Property Offenders and Rational Choice
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rationality.
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Learning Objective 10.8
Expound upon the three basic
categories of burglars and detail the
process of target selection in burglary.
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FIGURE 10-8 Types of Burglars.
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• Low-level Burglars
of the moment
deterred from a target, and rewards are
generally not significant
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Categories of Burglars
• Middle-range Burglars
have begun their offending in burglary
as juvenile
common in middle-range offenders
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Categories of Burglars
• Middle-range Burglars
both potential payoff and risk involved.
-range offenders are not as easily
discouraged by security devices.
goods on a larger scale.
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Categories of Burglars
• High-level Burglars
connected with reliable sources of
information about targets
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Categories of Burglars
• High-level Burglars
living from proceeds of their crimes,
which are carefully planned.
-level burglars may be known to
police, but their activities remain largely
concealed from detection.
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Categories of Burglars
• Target Selection
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types of establishments.
burglarize occupied dwellings.
eterrents to
offenders.
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Learning Objective 10.9
Characterize burglars and their
motivation.
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Motivation for Burglary
• The most prevalent rationale behind
the offense of residential burglary is the
need for fast cash.
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Motivation for Burglary
• The burglary–drug connection
that includes illicit drugs, alcohol, and
sexual pursuits
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Motivation for Burglary
• Research shows a stronger connection
between robbery-drugs than burglary-
drugs.
directly at any time.
is more likely to net stolen
goods than cash.
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Learning Objective 10.10
Describe the role and various types of
fences and criminal receivers.
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Fences and Criminal Receivers
• In some cases, it is necessary to turn
stolen goods into cash.
• Receiving stolen property allows for
various levels of profit by individuals
and groups with varying skill levels.
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Fences and Criminal Receivers
• Some burglars commit their offenses
specifically to get something they know
someone wants.
• May also sell to people who are known
to them or may take stolen goods to
flea markets or auctions
• Sell to legitimate retailers representing
stolen goods as legal goods
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Fences and Criminal Receivers
• Fence
buying, selling, and distribution of
stolen items
• This is the least common method of
disposing stolen goods for the majority of
thieves but is the most common method
used by professional thieves.
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Fences and Criminal Receivers
• Three types of criminal receivers
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Chapter Summary
• Property crimes are distinguished from
violent personal crimes because they
target things rather than people. The
major property crimes are burglary,
larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
• The crime of burglary consists of the
unlawful entry into a structure for the
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generally a theft.
continued on next slide
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Chapter Summary
• Larceny is the most frequently
occurring property offense.
• Identity theft is a new and special kind
of larceny.
• Motor vehicle theft involves the theft or
attempted theft of a motor vehicle.
• Arson refers to an intentionally set fire
that maliciously damages property.
continued on next slide
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• Many thieves are persistent, but this
does not make them professionals.
• The three basic categories of burglars
are low-level, middle-range, and high-
level.
• The most prevalent rationale behind
the offense of residential burglary is the
need for fast cash.
continued on next slide
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Chapter Summary
• There are three kinds of fences, or
criminal receivers: professional
receivers, avocational receivers, and
amateur receivers.