Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The more criminals exhibit each characteristic of professional crime such as skill, high status, and the like, the more professional they are regarded.
2. Amateurs tend to freelance or be less tied to relatively permanent criminal organizations than their organized-crime counterparts.
3. The main distinction between occupational/corporate crime and professional crime is that in occupational/corporate crime, the crime is incidental to a legitimate business, whereas in professional crime, the business is to perform criminal activity.
4. “Professional crime” is a legal construct that is considered in sentencing.
5. Professional criminals are usually drug addicts.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False

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