CRIM 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Uniform Crime Reports, Robbery, Carjacking
Document Summary
Chapter 3 (pgs 66-74): theories of crime and measuring victimization. Offender assumes someone else"s identity, uses stolen credit cards, or steals login information: postal schemes. Leaving town with payments for orders, offering to arrange a guaranteed business loan or employment for an advance fee , chain letters, work-at-home schemes, fraudulent sales of property: religious cons. Religious cults, televangelists, or organizers scam money from the church: phony accident claims. Fake accidents or forge accident claims: nigerian letter scams. Pleas to help transfer money from nigeria to another part of the world in exchange for a reward after providing banking information: paper hanging. Passing bad checks or forgery: phony fundraising. Offenders often target victims of natural disasters: cons. Involve nonexistent home electrical or plumbing repairs or fortune tellers who persuade people to bury their money in a cemetery to lift its curse : other swindles. Schemes, frauds, deceptions, stings, rip-offs, hoaxes, rackets.
