SOC 1500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Motor Vehicle Theft, Routine Activity Theory, Highwayman
3 Aug 2018
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Economic crimes: acts designed to bring financial gain to the offender, as opposed to violent crimes, which are often conflict related. Fence: a buyer and seller of stolen merchandise. Street crimes: crime related acts that prey on the public through theft, damage, and violence. Flash houses: in the 18th century, the taverns where skilled thieves and pickpockets congregated and which served as headquarters for gangs. Modern thieves: most property related crimes are committed by occasional criminals who act opportunistically and are not committed career criminals. Situational inducement: the opportunity that influences the decision to commit crimes, such as occasional property crime. Occasional criminal: an offender who does not derive much income from crime but when there"s an opportunity is more likely to drift in and out of crime. Theft: earliest common law crime defined by english judges as acts in which one person took for his or her own use the property of another.
