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What is Criminal Justice?
This is the study of the systems of social control: police, courts and corrections
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What is violence?
This is behavior by persons against another person[s] that intentionally threatens, attempts, or actually inflicts physical harm
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What is the conflict model?
This assumes that power is the key to lawmaking
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What are 'intentional injuries'?
The criminal justice system perspective views interpersonal attacks as crimes while the public health perspective views them as what
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What are 'rarity of the event,' 'difficulty to observe-occur in private settings,' 'nonreporting by witnesses/victims,' 'variations of the definition of victimization,' and 'portions of existing records may be missing data'
These are the 5 main challenges of violence research
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What are the conflict view, the consensus view and the interactionist view?
These are the three ways criminologists view crime
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What is corporate violence?
This is behavior that produces an unreasonable risk of physical harm to employees, the general public and consumers
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What is 'what we perceive to be real is also real in its consequences'?
This is also known as the W. I. Thomas theorem
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What are surveillance, risk group identification, risk factor exploration, and program implementation and evaluation?
According to the public health perspective, these are the elements of the 4-step, risk-based approach
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What are patterns, potential causes, and interventions?
These are the 3 components to the tripartite approach to understanding violence
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What is criminology?
This is the origin/etiology, nature and extent of crime in society
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What are sports?
This activity is alleged to validate the use of violence
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What is 'social reality'?
_____________________ is socially constructed
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What are 'structural and cultural,' 'criminogenic communities,' and 'situational'?
These are the 3 broad classes of risk factors
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What are the UCR, NCVS, and NIBRS?
These are the 3 primary sources of information regarding crime rates
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What is the Code of Hammurabi?
This principle is commonly defined as 'eye for an eye' and dates back thousands of years
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What is the consensus model?
This assumes that all members of society agree on what is 'right' and 'wrong'
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What are 'moral panics'?
These are created by the media by focusing coverage on relatively isolated events, specifically heinous crimes
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What are primary, secondary and tertiary?
These are the 3 public health types of prevention
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Who is the FBI?
This federal agency supervises the data collection of the UCR
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What is mala prohibitum?
This is the Latin phrase that refers to crimes that are merely prohibited by law but are devoid of malice of thought or intent
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What is psychological violence?
This is defined as persistent negative attributions to others, especially those emotionally connected to the speaker or individual in question
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What are a conflict between personal/individual liberty and community safety, the collateral effects (what occurs in 1 pt of the sys affects the others), discretion..., and decisions should be evidence-based on scientifically gathered information
These are the four themes to understanding the criminal justice system according to Gottfredson (1999)
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What is quantitative research?
This type of research focuses on a number, e.g. number of cases of Ebola, number of shootings in the past month
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What is NIBRS?
This database source for crime rates is often criticized as it's been in production for decades but still is not complete
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What is 'availability heuristic'?
This is the term that describes when individuals see more of some phenomena and then believe it to be more frequently occurring than it actually is as a result of this immediate mental reference
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