Unit 1: What is Crime? | Unit 1: Why Do Peope Commit Crime? | Unit 1: Why Do People Commit Crime? | Unit 1: Why Do People Commit Crime? | Unit 2: Measuring Crime |
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What is a wrong against society punishable by law?
This is the root definition of a crime
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What is criminology?
This is the proper term for the field of study that examines why people commit crime
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What is high tech crime/computer crime?
If you have ever had your identity stolen, you were a victim of this broad category of crime
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What is XYY Chromosome Theory?
This theory proposes that males with this attribute are more likely to commit crime as a result of excess testosterone production
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What is homicide?
Per your reading, the rate of occurrence for this specific crime dropped in 2001 to its lowest point in over three decades
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What is victimology?
This is the scientific study of victims, that includes their behaviors, injuries, assistance, legal rights and recovery
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What are exceptions?
These exist with every theoretical model
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What is choice theory?
__________________ theory contends that people weigh the benefits of the crime against the potential costs of the crime
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What are illicit action including gambling, drug use and heavy drinking?
The majority of offenders interviewed in the armed robbery study used the proceeds of their robberies for this
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What are the increased use of incarceration, more police officers, the declining use of crack cocaine and the legalization of abortion?
These are the four factors that can be directly correlated to the decrease in crime rates in the 1990s
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What are violent/against persons, property crimes, public disorder, white collar crimes, organized crime, and high tech or cyber crime?
These are the broad categories crimes fall into
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What is organized crime?
This broad genre of crime would include crimes committed by gangs
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What are personality disorders, mental disorders that may have been brought on by negative early childhood experiences or problems socializing?
Psychological theories contend that people commit crime as a result of ________________________________
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What is $4.25?
This was minimum wage at the time the interviews were conducted for the armed robbery study, as noted by one of the participants
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What are the age, race and gender of the offender?
This information is not normally available in the NCVS or UCR data because it is not reported and/or not known
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What is lead?
Exposure to this chemical in childhood may affect his ability to focus/concentrate/pay attention, control his impulses, or regulate his emotions
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What is a theory?
This is a plausible explanation for a happening or circumstance that is based on observation, experimentation and reasoning
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What are biological theories?
This group of criminological theories contended that physical differences (sloping foreheads, excess body hair, etc) were attributed to people committing crime
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What is 'to prove'?
It is virtually impossible to do this to a theory
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What is homicide?
This is argued to be the most accurately measured crime and most serious crime
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What is the criminal justice system?
This term refers to the entity that handles the process of arresting, trying, and punishing offenders in our society
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What is to predict future criminal behavior?
Testing a criminological theory often involves using the theory to do this
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What is strain theory?
This contends that extraordinary social pressures lead an individual to commit crime
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What is cash?
This is the typical gain from an armed robbery, according to those interviewed in the study, which makes armed robbery more attractive than other crimes
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Why didn't crime rates fall sooner?
This is considered to be the 'real question' about why crime fell in the 1990s, per the author of the article
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What is Strain Theory?
Of the criminological theories discussed in Unit 1, this theory best explains why the offenders in the armed robbery article felt compelled to commit their crimes
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