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1
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What type of offenses are under the, Occasional Property Criminal Behavior, system?

A

forgery
shoplifting
vandalism
automobile theft

2
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What type of offenses are under the, Public-Order Criminal Behavior, system?

A

prostitution
homosexuality
drunkenness
drug use

3
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What type of offenses are under the, Political Criminal Behavior, system?

A

conspiracy and political demonstrations

4
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What type of offenses are under the, Professional Criminal Behavior, system?

A

confidence games
identity theft schemes
forgery
counterfeiting

5
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What is the major strength of Multi-Trait Typologies?

A

its use of multiple traits or dimensions for identifying crime types and its intuitive appeal to most criminologists

6
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What is crime syndrome?

A

are based on the composite profile of the offender, offense, and situational elements that underlie different types of crimes

7
Q

There are distinct subsets of crime syndromes within general crime categories that have unique __________.

A

signatures

8
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What are signatures?

A

different motives, offender/victim/situational elements

9
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What are the different crime syndromes?

A

(1) murder and assaults
(2) sexual assaults
(3) robbery (personal and institutional forms)
(4) burglary (residential and non-residential forms)
(5) motor vehicle theft
(6) occupational crimes
(7) organizational crimes
(8) public order crimes

10
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Crime syndromes are derived from the characteristics of the _______, the _______, and the _________ ________

A

offender
offense
situational context

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