- What sentence did you receive for your last theft offense?
- What kind of things did you steal?
- From where did you steal?
- How often did you steal?
- How did you decide what to steal?
- Did you know what you were going to do with the items before you stole them?
- What did you do with what you stole?
- Take the buyer to the goods?
- Take the goods to the buyer?
- Take the goods onto the street, looking for buyers?
- Use a mobile phone to find buyers?
- Take the goods to a friend who knows buyers?
- How did you know to whom/where to sell?
- Why was it easier to sell to that person/place?
- How did you learn the best ways to sell stolen goods?
- Where did you (and others) sell the following types of stolen goods?
- Jewelry?
- Electrical goods?
- Shoplifted items (clothes, cigarettes, food, alcohol)?
- Guns?
- To how many different people did you sell?
- For each type of stolen good, how did you sell?
- Hawking in a public place, door-to-door, in bars, at flea markets?
- Network sales (through friends and contacts)?
- Commercial fence supplies?
- What kind of businesses? Corner shops, jewelers, pawnbrokers, secondhand shops?
- Residential fence supplies?
- Family, friends, acquaintances?
- Did people buy stolen goods without asking any questions about where they came from or proof of identity?
- Do you think the shopkeepers knew the goods you were selling were stolen?
- How easy was it to sell each type of stolen goods?
- Did police ever catch your fence/dealer?
- Did you ever need to dump goods?
- How did you know where to take stolen property?
- How long did it take you to get rid of property?
- If you had to store/stash goods, where did you do that?
- How did you transport what you stole?
- Car?
- Public transportation?
- On foot?
- Bicycle?
- Did you ever swap stolen goods for drugs? Or trade stolen goods for anything else?
- Did you work alone or with someone else?
- Did you earn money from selling stolen goods shared with someone?
- Did anyone ever ask you to steal to order? What sort of property?
- Did you ever ask someone else to sell something for you? Who (don’t need to know names)? What sort of property?
- What did you do with any money you got from what you stole?
- Why did you steal and sell stolen goods?
- For cash to party (alcohol, drugs, prostitution)?
- To support other people?
- For fun and excitement?
- To support a drug, alcohol, gambling or other addiction?
- What did community members think of buying stolen goods? Did they ask? Did they turn a “blind eye”?
- Were you aware of the police when you were stealing or selling stolen goods? Did you take precautions not to get caught?
- Did you have any strategies to ensure that buyers were not going to inform the police?
- What did you know about police operations against thieves and dealers?
- How concerned were you about your chances of getting caught?
- How long did it typically take you to sell your stolen goods?
- Were or are you aware of any markets closing down as a result of police intervention?
- Were or are you aware of any increased police interest in where stolen property was or is sold?
- Did property-marking deter you from stealing? Were there particular types of marking that deterred you more than others?
- Did you get a good return for the goods you sold?
- Did prices for particular goods go up? If so, did that affect what you stole?
- Did prices for particular goods go down? Did that stop you from stealing such things?
- What do you think affected/affects price changes?
- The market got/gets swamped with stolen stuff?
- Street prices went/go down?
- Fashions changed/change?
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