1. Compose thorough responses to the following questions.

• Describe confidence games.
• Although the victim of a confidence game may lose large amounts of money, to what extent does society hold them partially responsible for the loss?
• Are they truly innocent victims of the con artist or are they partly to blame because they participated in a get-rich-quick scheme?
• How could victim blaming affect the reporting of these crimes?
• Discuss victim vulnerability factors versus the concept of shared responsibility.
• What vulnerabilities do criminals prey upon to perpetrate scams and cons?
• Tell us of someone you know that has been a victim of or perpetrated scams and cons. How does victim vulnerability factors or shared responsibility explain his or her victimization?

2. Do not forget to discuss the related criminological theories and their theorist when composing your responses.

3. You must use APA 7th ed style with using in-text citations (parenthetical and narrative) and when you create the references.