While car theft by profit-seeking thieves is a growing issue, majority of car thefts are opportunistic and committed by non-professionals, commonly juveniles between the ages of 12-14 (Australian Institute of Criminology, n.d.). ... The majority of offenders are young males looking for adventure and/or personal belongings to take, including money, laptops, radios, wheels, and cell phones (Australian Institute of Criminology, n.d.). ... Juvenile Program Majority of motor vehicle theft is opportunistic and committed by males aged 12-14 whereby the thief strives towards using the vehicle, not sel...

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These trends are what lead to new theories in criminology. ... Even with these limitations, Uniform Crime Reports are still an essential tool, used as a part of the decision making process for policing crimes, and developing theories in criminology in the United States. ...

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Many armed robberies happen in impoverished communities and "Stratification is sociology to many, and in criminology it comes as no surprise that deprivation theories privileging materialism and economic motives are perennially popular" (Sampson, 2000. ...

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A CRITIQUE OF THE BRITISH CRIME SURVEY WHAT IS THE BCS? The British crime survey (BCS) has its origins in two seminal studies carried out in America in the mid-sixties (Ennis 1967; Bidermann & Reiss 1967). They asked randomly sampled households if any person in the home had been a victim of ...

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