Crime And Property Crime

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Property crime is an issue that affects the community. It has a category of crime that includes other crimes

like: burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, arson, and vandalism. Property crime involves the taking of property,

and does not involve threat of force against a victim (Ellingworth,1995). These are the following major crime such as

theft, robbery, budol-budol, snatching and hold-up. Theft and Robbery refers to the act of stealing of money or it is done

with intent to gain, shall take any personal property belonging to another, by means of violence against or intimidation of

any person, or using force upon anything (SFH Allison, 2005). Budol-budol is the act of hypnosis or swindling, it is an

organize crime or planned which …show more content…

Theft is committed by any person who, with intent to gain but without violence against or intimidation of neither

persons nor force upon things, shall take personal property of another without the latter’s consent. Robbery is forcible

stealing. Snatching a form of robbery was force is not used beyond that needed to take property from another person.

(Jay Livingston 1992)

Modus Operandi refers to a pattern of criminal behavior so typical that separate crimes may be recognized as

the work of the same wrongdoer. The activity of the crimes must be both similar and unique in such a way as to commit

the crime to a single person. Modus Operandi is the usual way that a particular criminal performs a crime in order to

gain profit. Modus operandi is a method of doing something, especially one that has characteristic. (Harvey 1999)

( Atcherley circa 1880).

Modus operandi of robbery, this group robs wealthy homes by tricking unsuspecting house helpers into helping them

get to the homeowners’ cash and valuables. Plan of attack: Remember that PLDT caller I.D. commercial? That’s

basically how the Dugo-Dugo Gang operates. After casing a household, the gang members wait for a moment …show more content…

Then they pressure the helper into forcing open the family safe, locked

drawers, and the like to get cash and other valuables. Then the helper is request to turn over to the gang members.(

Montojo F.G 2007)

Modus operandi of Budol-budol Gang can strike anywhere using their so-called powers of hypnotism and

"boodle" or counterfeit money--hence the name--that turn out to be just sheets of paper. Interestingly, Google Translate

says "budol" means "gullible person." Plan of attack: Their M.O. may have evolved over the years but here’s their basic

tactic: They blackmail their victims into giving them valuables or cash in exchange for a bag filled with fake bills or

products. In one reported instance in 2008, two suspected Budol-Budol Gang members managed to get a cellphone, a

Walkman, and P2, 000 from an unidentified 16-year-old girl in Cebu. The male and female suspects claimed they were

looking for a vehicle to transport their things. Before they went to search for a vehicle, they asked the girl to hold on to a

bag supposedly filled with money. In return, they got the girl to give them her valuables as a sort of safety deposit.

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