Question

Professional intensive offenders, amateur intermittent offenders, and specific-objective offenders are three types of _______.

Answer 1

Correct answer: robbery.

Explanation: there are different kind of crimes, felonies and offenses. Robbery is the one that involves taking or the attempt to take somebody´s property by force or by putting the victim in fear. It´s a violent crime, it has a violent nature inherited (different from shop-lifting or burglary).

The characterization of the three types is the following:

1. Professional intensive offenders: have robbery as a lifestyle, they commit numerous offenses.
2. Amateur intermittent offenders: they choose their victims randomly, mostly vulnerable ones (women, elderlies) with known profit potencials.
3. Specific-objective offenders: they commit robbery to support a drug adiction or their gambling habits.