CRIJ 3320 eCrossword Puzzle 10

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Across
  1. 2. Miscellaneous property theft.
  2. 5. An occupation that exhibits esoteric knowledge and a service orientation and achieves autonomy of operation.
  3. 8. The massive production of fake videotapes.
  4. 9. Sneak thieves who operate in stores and offices.
  5. 12. The purposeful setting of fires.
  6. 13. Involves the conversion or obtaining of money or property under false pretenses.
  7. 15. Act of forestalling legal actions through bribery and corruption.
  8. 17. Dealers in stolen property.
  9. 23. Avocational criminals who do not identify with criminal careers. They typically steal or damage property on an infrequent basis.
  10. 25. What Lemert calls this use of bad checks to solve personal problems because it is a last resort for solving a financial crisis.
  11. 26. Refers to loses due to shoplifting, employee theft, vendor fraud, and administrative error.
  12. 28. Professional safecrackers.
  13. 29. In Mary Cameron Owen’s study, amateur shoplifters.
  14. 30. The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft.
  15. 31. Individuals who in an avocational manner supplement their legitimate incomes by stealing.
  16. 33. Police antifencing programs.
  17. 34. The distinctive or specialized language of a group.
Down
  1. 1. Involves acquiring key pieces of someone’s identifying information in order to impersonate them.
  2. 3. Defined in the UCR as making, altering, uttering, or possessing, with intent to defraud, anything false which is made to appear true.
  3. 4. A catch-all for miscellaneous property crime.
  4. 6. The stealing of merchandise from stores.
  5. 7. Those who pass bad checks in order to resolve a temporary financial crisis.
  6. 10. Professional criminals who specialize in passing bad checks (paperhangers).
  7. 11. Drug addicts who are simply opportunist burglars and are the least skilled of such thieves.
  8. 14. Involves the willful destruction of property without the consent of the owner or agent of the owner.
  9. 16. A compulsion to steal.
  10. 18. Occasional property crime committed almost exclusively by juveniles on an unplanned, unskilled, and sporadic basis.
  11. 19. A name for professional pickpockets.
  12. 20. Semiprofessional criminals who are generally unsuccessful at their trades of larceny and burglary.
  13. 21. One who has a lifelong involvement in crime.
  14. 22. The realm of the psychotic or psychopathic offender.
  15. 24. Passing bad checks and other counterfeit documents.
  16. 27. Professional shoplifters.
  17. 32. Defined as the taking of the property of another without the owner’s consent.