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Occasional criminals
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Offedes who do not define themselves by a criminal role or view themselves as committed vareer crimincals
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Situational inducement
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Short-term influence on a person's behacior, such as financial problems or peer pressure, which increases risk taking
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Professional criminals
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Offenders who make a significant portion of their income from crime
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Larceny
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Taking for one's own use the property rime of another, by means other than force or threats on the citim or forcibly breaking into a person's home or workplace; theft.
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Constructive possession
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A legal fiction that applies to situations in whcih persons voluntarily give up physical custody of their property but still retain legal ownership
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Petit (petty) larceny
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Theft of a small amount of money or property, punished as a misdemeanor
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Grand larceny
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Theft of money or property of substantial valie; punished as a felony
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Shoplifting
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The taking of good from retail stores
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Snitch
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Amateur shoplifer who does not self-identify as a thief but who systematically steals merchandise for personal use
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Booster (heel)
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Professional shoplifter who steals with the intention of reselling stolen merchandise
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Merchant privlege laws
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Legislation that protects retailers and their employees from lawsuits if they arrest and detain a suspected shoplifter on reasonable grounds
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Target removal strategy
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Displaying dummy or disabled goods as a means of preventing shoplifting
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Target hardening strategy
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Locking good into place or using electronic tags and sensing devices as means of preventing shoplifting
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Naive check forgers
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Amateurs who cash bad checks because of some financial crisis but have little identification with a criminal subculture
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Systematic forgers
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Professionals who make a living by passing bad checks
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