CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Property Crime, Organized Crime, Structural Functionalism
Property crime and organized crime
March 13, 2018
Competing explanations of property crime
Structural functionalism
Conflict theory
- Dukheim and Merton
- Laws are based on our shared beliefs
(consensus)
- Function of law
- Marx
- Laws protect propertied class
- Working class are
criminalized/punished
- Crimes committed by propertied class
ignored
Gabor: Typology of Robbers
1). Chronic
- Long history (youth)
- Start when they are little, stop once they get caught
2). Professional
- Research and preparation
- Skills
- They are less likely to get caught
3). Intensive
- Sporadic and poorly planned
- Target, usually target things that are open like convenience stores. Looking to get quick
money
- Usually are trying to pay for drugs
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4). Occasional
- Opportunity
- Charged and conviction
- Only participant in robbery if it comes up
Types of robberies (Targets)
- Financial institutions
o Notoriety- target banks
o Organized
o They just show up and threaten with violence
- Convenience stores
o Low take, high success
o Person and security, convenience stores are not supposed to fight off the rob
and just give the money
o Weapon usually firearms
- (street) person muggings
o theft on the street off the person (purse, pocket)
o pickpocket they usually work in teams, one person distracts, the other takes it
o happens a lot in airport because it is busy
- Home invasion
o Legal category
o Occurrences
o Usually done by people who know you because they know what you have
o Happen early morning or early day
- Car-jacking
o Technology, better the technology like alarms the more safe the car is but now
people wait for you to get in the car and start the car and then take it
Property crime characteristics
- Intra-class, the offender and victim have the same class usually.
- Offender- Done mostly by working class
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- Declining rates
o Break and enter and motor vehicle thefts
o Deliig sie the 9’s
- Increasing credit card fraud, someone who takes your card and uses it without the car
being present. Investigating done usually by financial banks not police
False pretences or fraud
- False pretences
o Misrepresenting a fact to deceive for example, selling a copy of an art saying its
origial ut it’s ot
- Fraud
o Use of deceit to obtain property, money, or valuables
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- Fraud involves gaining trust of victim so they can get money or other things. Also when
they fraud these types of people, the person may be too embarrassed to tell the police.
Usually the elderly people
- Telemarketing scams
- Internet and phishing scams get someone to trust you online, like a person online may
say they need money to get out of a situation so they can be together,
Other fraud
Identity theft
- Effects- osts aout $ illio dollars, a destroy a perso’s redit ratig for life.
Report it when you lose a credit card
- Private and personal information
Bad cheques
- Declining
- High clearance rate (55%)
Systematic forgers
Modern thieves (typology)
- Occasional criminals
o Unskilled, unplanned
▪ Low value
o Most not reported
o Tend to be youths and do not go into becoming a career criminal
- Situationally induced
o Common reasons- you are induced to commit the crime comes from peer
pressure or financial issues
o Opportunistic
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Document Summary
Laws are based on our shared beliefs (consensus) Start when they are little, stop once they get caught. They are less likely to get caught. Target, usually target things that are open like convenience stores. Usually are trying to pay for drugs. Only participant in robbery if it comes up. Financial institutions: notoriety- target banks, organized, they just show up and threaten with violence. Home invasion: legal category, occurrences, usually done by people who know you because they know what you have, happen early morning or early day. Car-jacking: technology, better the technology like alarms the more safe the car is but now people wait for you to get in the car and start the car and then take it. Intra-class, the offender and victim have the same class usually. Declining rates: break and enter and motor vehicle thefts, de(cid:272)li(cid:374)i(cid:374)g si(cid:374)(cid:272)e the 9(cid:1004)"s. Increasing credit card fraud, someone who takes your card and uses it without the car being present.
