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PICKPOCKET. A thief; one who in a crowd or. in other places, steals from the pockets or person of another without putting him in fear. This is generally punished as simple larceny. |
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An introduction describes at length the cultural differences and hazards that American students need to adapt to, such as sensible precautions against pickpocketing and exercising care when construction sites and other dangerous areas do not have the barriers to keep people away that are more common in the United States. While purse-snatching, pickpocketing and bicycle theft are decreasing across the nation, vehicle burglaries are on the rise, soaring 10 percent in 2004, the last year for which data were available, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Furthermore, juvenile pickpocketing was, in certain respects, an invisible crime. |
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