Property crimes Alisa Tkachuk

Property crimes
Alisa Tkachuk
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Has someone taken or destroyed your property without permission and with no intention of paying for it or returning it?
If so, then you’ve been the victim of property crime.
Property crime includes crimes that are not directed specifically at individual people. Rather, these crimes are aimed at property. With property crime, property may be destroyed or defaced in some way.
There are numerous types of property crime, including:

• Burglary

• Estimates suggest one burglary is committed every 1.5 minutes in the EU, with some Member States registering 1000 burglaries every day.
• Burglary is the most common crime in the United States.

Burglary is the unlawful entry into a home or other closed structure, often by force or coercion, with the intent of stealing property from another or committing some other crime.
- Theft

• Larceny and theft are often used. Theft is a broader term because it can be used to describe the theft of identity, intellectual property, services, or personal propert.
• Today, people steal things for many reasons. The most common reasons include revenge and peer pressure.

Theft is the act of intentionally depriving someone of his or her property.
- Shoplifting
Shoplifting is the theft or concealment of merchandise from a retail establishment without the intent to pay for it, such as placing items in one’s pocket and walking out of a store.
- Larceny
One commits larceny by taking something of value without consent and with the intent to permanently deprive the rightful owner of the object.

• Most states use the term theft in place of larceny.

- Arson
Arson is the intentional burning of almost any type of structure, building or forest land, with more severe degrees recognized if it causes bodily injury, or involves an inhabited building or intent to defraud insurers.

• Setting fire to an inhabited building or for insurance fraud can increase the severity of the arson charge.

- Robbery
One commits robbery by using force or the threat of force to take money or property from another individual, such as pointing a gun at a bank teller and demanding cash.

• Robberies can occur in various places such as banks, retail establishments, or even when a person is riding a bus or standing on the sidewalk.

- Vandalism

• Vandalism has been around for centuries (since Roman times).

Vandalism occurs when an individual destroys, defaces or otherwise degrades someone else’s property without their permission; sometimes called criminal damage, malicious trespass, or malicious mischief.

• Damage from vandalism such as breaking windows, graffiti, or intentional damage to a vehicle, could be considered criminal.

• Make sure that you lock your doors and windows every time you leave your house.
• Get a good alarm system installed at your house and make sure that it’s well maintained.
• Install motion sensors around your house as they can be very useful in detecting intruders before they enter the premises of your home.
• Keep an eye out for any suspicious activity around your neighborhood by asking neighbors about anything that might look unusual to them.

Here are some tips on how to protect your home and yourself against property crime:
There are a lot of crimes against property in Criminal Code of Ukraine and other states.
All types of criminal offences against property are found in Chapter VI of Criminal Code of Ukraine.
Criminal law of Ukraine distinguishes these crimes: theft, robbery, brigandism, extortion, fraud, stealing of power networks, cable com-munications lines, and related equipment by dismantling or otherwise and others.

An example of a property crime:

Baghdad’s billion dollar bank
The Baghdad Bank in Iraq has been the site of multiple heists and, in fact, the city has been revealed as the “bank robbery capital of the world“. Although most have been extremely violent, none have been more sensational than the 2003 theft by then-leader Saddam Hussein which remains the largest heist in history.
The president ordered his eldest son to take as much money as he could just hours before the US-led invasion of the country. Taking the order, Quasay and his men loaded cash from the vaults into a number of trucks waiting outside The value of the haul? A whopping $1 billion.
About $650 million was recovered by American troops from the walls of the Hussein palace but the $350 million leftovers were never discovered.