Deck 12: Property Crimes

Question 1

How may consumer frauds related to major appliance repair services and the cost of replacement parts be detected?

A) the Ponzi scheme
B) advanced fees
C) decoy appliances/vehicles
D) accomplice-witnesses

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is the conversion of another's property over which the thief has custody or control?

A) confidence swindle
B) embezzlement
C) continual theft
D) misrepresentation

Answer 2

B

Question 3

"Dismantlers" usually attack a parked car, taking a variety of parts readily disposed of on the local black market.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Which is a common swindle in which the victims are tricked into withdrawing money from a bank to show financial responsibility as a prerequisite to sharing in money found by one of the swindlers?

A) charity switch
B) pigeon drop
C) pay off
D) bank examiner fraud

Question 5

Burglary is usually which type of crime?

A) active
B) passive
C) reactive
D) confidence

Question 6

Embezzlement is the conversion of another's property over which the thief has custody or control.

Question 7

Which is a type of swindle in which money invested by new victims is used to pay high interest on the investments of earlier victims?

A) bait and switch
B) pigeon drop
C) charity switch
D) Ponzi scheme

Question 8

Fences buy and sell stolen property on a regular basis.

Question 9

"Strippers" steal a car, tow or drive it to a "chop shop" and have it cut up for its parts.

Question 10

This is the "Achilles Heel" of thieves.

A) use of tools
B) modus operandi searches and identification
C) transfer of associative evidence
D) disposing of the stolen property

Question 11

The means of entry differ in various burglaries and are directly related to the skill of the burglar.

Question 12

The storefront or "sting" technique is an investigative technique in property crimes aimed at the wholesale identification and apprehension of thieves.

Question 13

Repair fraud involves luring customers into a place of business with advertised merchandise and then selling the customer a higher priced item of allegedly better quality.

Question 14

In a process known as "pulling," a safe burglar will use a sledge hammer to knock the combination dial from the safe and drive the spindle back into the safe which makes the release mechanism of the lock accessible and allows the safe to be opened.

Question 15

What are the intermediaries of larceny, the people who buy and sell stolen property, called?

A) fences
B) jimmys
C) embezzlers
D) swindlers

Question 16

A "smash and grab" is when the burglar hides in a commercial premises until all employees have left, then breaks out with the stolen property.

Question 17

Instances when the employee is presented with an opportunity for theft that, in the employee's mind, must be acted on are called _____.

A) shrinkage
B) incidental
C) situational
D) continual

Question 18

Which is not a step in the behavior cycle of burglars?

A) needs
B) opportunities
C) the ability to dispose of loot successfully
D) means

Question 19

The burglary technique in which the top, bottom, or sides of a safe are attacked with a chisel or other metal-cutting device is known as: _____.

A) punching
B) pulling
C) peeling
D) ripping

Question 20

The "bait and switch" swindle involves overcharging for services performed, charging for services not performed, or parts not replaced and failing to provide labor and materials as agreed.

Question 21

The real success in stealing is not the completion of the crime itself but the _____ of the stolen property at a profit.

Question 22

_____ involves elements of intentional deceit, concealment, corruption, misrepresentation, and abuse of trust to gain the property of another.

Question 23

_____ theft involves ongoing, constant acts of theft by an employee. This type of theft is usually motivated by the need to support a vice of the employee, such as gambling, drugs, or alcohol.

Question 24

_____ theft involves those instances when employees consume the employer's product while on the job or take home items such as office supplies at the end of the day.

Question 25

_____ is defined as the unlawful taking or stealing of property without the use of force or violence.

Question 26

_____ is the entering of a structure for the purpose of committing a felony or theft therein.

Question 27

Burglary is usually a _____ crime in that the burglar normally tries to avoid contact with victims.

Question 28

_____ and con games are frauds based on promises of unusual returns: something for nothing, double your money, or income for life.

Question 29

_____ fraud is an ego-building swindle based on the hidden desire of many people to serve as a secret agent for the police.

Question 30

_____ theft involves those instances when the employee is presented with an opportunity for theft that, in the employee's mind, must be acted upon.