Explain the major differences between professional and amateur property offenders. Property offenders are either professional or amateurs. What is...

The main
difference between amateur and professional thieves is whether or not the person makes a living
from thievery. I imagine this question is related to individual thieves as opposed to the much
more impactful corporate or government thieves who are often protected under the law. It is
important to make this distinction of outlawed versus legalized/accepted thievery because there
are many professions that rely on stealing that are, in fact, legalized and accepted by society.
Example of such are the profession of policing in which police legally and forcefully steal
people from their homes and loved ones, or the profession of resource extractors, such as giant
rubber corporations, who steal land from indigenous people and force them to extract rubber from
the lands they once called home.

Amateur thieves can be classified as folks
who may consistently or inconsistently steal from businesses or private residences, and they
tend to steal for themselves or for others, but not as a means...