Modus Operandi
by Corvasce, Mauro V.; Paglino, Joseph R.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-03-01
Publisher(s): Betterway Books
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Summary
Writers will see how to create cunning criminals who still leave clues protagonists can follow. The authors explain how law-breakers perform the dirty deeds of murder--from contract killers to seemingly ordinary people--armed robbery, arson, smuggling, white collar crime, prostitution, and more.
Author Biography
Mauro V. Corvasce and Joseph R. Paglino are detectives with the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey. Both have many years of investigative experience
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Arsonists | p. 5 |
| Examining the most underreported of all crimes | |
| Cause | |
| Origin | |
| Automobile and Other Vehicle Arson | |
| Arson for Hire | |
| Pyromaniacs | |
| Firestarters | |
| Typical Arson Scenarios | |
| Some Final Thoughts on Arson | |
| Art, Antique and Jewel Thieves | p. 18 |
| The ugly business of stealing beautiful things | |
| Types of Art Theft | |
| The Role of the Fence in Art Theft | |
| Capturing Art and Jewelry Thieves | |
| Criminal Penalties for Art Theft | |
| Conclusion | |
| Carjacking, Hijacking, Skyjacking and Auto Theft | p. 30 |
| The methods and reasons behind modern-day piracy | |
| Who's the Victim? | |
| Basic Auto Theft | |
| Carjacking | |
| Chop Shops | |
| Vehicles Stolen for Export | |
| Gray Market Vehicles | |
| Heavy Industrial and Construction Equipment | |
| Hijacking | |
| Skyjacking | |
| Vessels and Aircraft | |
| Con Artists | p. 57 |
| The art of swindling | |
| Salesmen of Fraud | |
| Swindles Against the Elderly | |
| A Glossary for Con Artists | |
| Counterfeiters and Forgers | p. 76 |
| Stealing a free ride on someone else's hard work or ideas | |
| Currencies | |
| Credit Card Fraud/Counterfeiting | |
| Other Documentation | |
| Marketable Goods | |
| Forgery | |
| Fencing | p. 90 |
| Converting stolen goods into cash | |
| Fences and the Law | |
| Types of Fences | |
| How to Become a Professional Fence | |
| Depicting a Professional Fence | |
| Homicide | p. 98 |
| Determining the manner and cause of death | |
| Medical Examiners | |
| Killing and the M.O. | |
| Passion Killings | |
| Premeditated Domestic Killings | |
| Adjunct Homicide | |
| Serial Killers | |
| Contract Killers | |
| Ritualistic Cults | |
| Stabbing | |
| Death by Gunshot | |
| Things to Remember | |
| Suicide or Homicide | |
| Kidnapping | p. 118 |
| One of the most terrifying and cruel crimes committed against another human being | |
| Gang Kidnappings | |
| Ransom Seekers | |
| Cults | |
| Fanatics and Terrorists | |
| Parental Abduction | |
| Stranger Abduction | |
| Apprehending Kidnappers | |
| Prostitution | p. 130 |
| As long as there are people willing to pay for sex, there will be people willing to sell it | |
| A Brief History of Prostitution | |
| Causes of Prostitution | |
| Prostitute Categories | |
| Prostitution and the Mob | |
| Armed Robbery | p. 143 |
| Using force to get anything you want | |
| The Professional Armed Robber | |
| Bank Robberies | |
| Armored Car Robberies | |
| The Amateur | |
| Female Armed Robbers | |
| Safecracking and Lockpicking | p. 155 |
| Overcoming security obstacles and precautions | |
| Surveillance | |
| Getting Inside the Property | |
| Getting Inside the Building | |
| Inside the Building | |
| Safecracking | |
| Lockpicking | |
| Smuggling | p. 170 |
| Trafficking vice worldwide | |
| Cocaine | |
| Heroin | |
| Methamphetamine | |
| Designer Drugs | |
| The Old Standbys | |
| Asian Gangs | |
| Jamaican Criminal Groups | |
| The Mob | |
| Black Gangs | |
| Turkish Smugglers | |
| Countries in Conflict | |
| Smuggling People Into the U.S. | |
| Shoplifters | p. 181 |
| An increasingly popular crime among "normal" people | |
| Reasons Why Amateurs Lift | |
| The Professional Shoplifter | |
| Catching the Shoplifter | |
| Whitecollar Crime and Money Laundering | p. 193 |
| Committing crimes with and against businesses | |
| Telephones and Computers | |
| Money Laundering | |
| Loan Sharking | |
| Index | p. 213 |
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