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1 Hoteliers are usually happy to offer you a safe corner to park your machine overnight. This is very necessary, particularly in Paris where ______ theft is rife.
2 In the area of _____ theft, insiders steal considerably more money and merchandise than outsiders.
3 Last year, more than 5,300 vehicles were stolen in El Paso a city of half a million people. That's almost twice the national _____ theft rate for urban areas.
4 Philip Saunders, a former dealer, estimates that works worth about £35 billion have gone missing this year, putting _____ theft behind only the drugs trade and computer fraud in value.
5 South Miami beach is notorious for pickpockets and_____ theft.
6 The organisation behind _____ theft is not as sophisticated as behind fine art. Panelling, fireplaces and staircases are being ripped out and sold to dealers who do not ask too many questions.
7 Two white men, one of them a policeman, have been arrested in connection with an ____ theft last weekend, when a large quantity of weapons was taken from an air force base in Pretoria.
14 Sorting out car crime. Here are two articles: one about joyriding, consisting of two sections, and the other about carjacking, consisting of four. Complete the gaps with appropriate words and say which sections belong to which articles. (The sections are in the correct order for each article)
a Stop your car at a red light in Detroit and you may find you have lost it for good. Thieves have hit on an easy way of stealing cars: order the driver out at gunpoint, then take his place and drive off. _____ is not limited to Detroit - Houston has reported.
As many as ten in one day and San Diego, Atlanta and Los Angeles are infected - but it has become a mini-epidemic in the city and some of its suburbs in recent weeks.
b Most teenage _____are school failures who believe they are very good or exceptional drivers and take cars for excitement, according to a purvey on car crime. Although they knew it was wrong to steal a car, most of those interviewed, all under 17, did not consider themselves criminals and had almost no concern for the victims of their crime.
c In the past six weeks more than 300 drivers have been ____in Detroit. Several people, including an off-duty policeman, have been killed trying to resist.
d Jeff Briggs, who carried out the survey among 200 youths at a car project at Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, said that while many people complained about the term, _______was an accurate description of the experience of taking vehicles. 'They get a good time, an enormous amount of joy out of_____,' he told a conference on car crime in London yesterday.
e There have been about 200 arrests. _________may be an easy way to steal a car - and two thirds of the cars have been recovered -but the penalty for being caught is high.
f Armed robbery carries a much bigger penalty than theft. The _____ spree has left Detroit's inner city even emptier than usual
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