TY - CHAP
T1 - Acquisitive Crime
AU - Gavin, Helen
PY - 2021/12/9
Y1 - 2021/12/9
N2 - Acquisitive crime is a wide-ranging category in which the offender derives material gain by illegal means, usually from another person or organisation. This includes shoplifting, burglary, robbery, larceny, piracy, and fraud. Some of the motivations underpinning these crimes are similar of course, but it is the differences that are interesting, and how those differences manifest in the investigative processes of detection and prevention. As with many other types of crime, there is no simple underlying theoretical position that leads to an explanation for acquisitive, there is no one personality type associated with theft or armed robbery or piracy. This chapter examines some of the complex psychological explanations for people acquiring property and goods that do not belong to them, including evolutionary models, mental disorder, psychopathy, gender effects, cyberpsychology and individual vs social factors.
AB - Acquisitive crime is a wide-ranging category in which the offender derives material gain by illegal means, usually from another person or organisation. This includes shoplifting, burglary, robbery, larceny, piracy, and fraud. Some of the motivations underpinning these crimes are similar of course, but it is the differences that are interesting, and how those differences manifest in the investigative processes of detection and prevention. As with many other types of crime, there is no simple underlying theoretical position that leads to an explanation for acquisitive, there is no one personality type associated with theft or armed robbery or piracy. This chapter examines some of the complex psychological explanations for people acquiring property and goods that do not belong to them, including evolutionary models, mental disorder, psychopathy, gender effects, cyberpsychology and individual vs social factors.
KW - Fraud
KW - Kleptomania
KW - Piracy
KW - Shoplifting
KW - Theft
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/psychology/applied-psychology/cambridge-handbook-forensic-psychology-2nd-edition
U2 - 10.1017/9781108848916.016
DO - 10.1017/9781108848916.016
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781108816748
T3 - Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
SP - 246
EP - 260
BT - The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
A2 - Brown, Jennifer M.
A2 - Horvath, Miranda A. H.
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -
