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30 Cards in this Set
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Acuantance Rape
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Rape commited by someone the victim knows.
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Brady Bill
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5-Day waiting period on handgun purchases so seller can screen buyers for criminal recordsor mental instability.
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Classic Rape
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The rapist was a strangerwho used a weapon and the attack
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Clearance Rate
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Measure The % of cases in which an arrest and official charge is made(turned over to courts).
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Computer Crime
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Any violation of the Law in which a computer is the target or means of criminal activity.
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Control Theory
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A strong social bond between individuals and the social order constrains some individuals from violating social norms.
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Corporate Violence
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production of unsafe products and the failure of corporations to provide a safe working envioronment for their employees.
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Crime
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Violation of Federal, State, and Local Law.
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Deterrence
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Use of harm or threat to prevent unwanted behaviors.
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Differential Association
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Assignment of meaning and definitions learned from others is also central to the second symbolic interaction-ist theory of crime. Ex. Children who see their parents benefit from crime.
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Incapacitation
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Placing offender in prison so that he/she is unable to commit further crimees against the general public.
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Index Offense
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Most serious crimes in the United States against a person or property. Murder, Forcible Rape, Aggravated Assult, Burglary, Larceny/Theft, Motor Vehicle Theft, and Arsen.
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Labeling Theory
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Emanate from the Social Interactionist Perspective.
1) How do crime and deviance come to be defined? 2) What are the effects of being labeledas a criminal or deviant? |
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Organized Crime
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Criminal activity conducted by members of a hierarchically arranged strycture devoted primarilyto make money through illigal means. (Mafia, Yakuza of Japan)Largest
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Primary Deviance
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Deviant behavior committed before a person is caught and labeled an offender.
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Primary Deviance
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Deviant behavior committed before a person is caught and labeled an offender.
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Racial Profiling
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Targeting suspects based on race status.
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Rehabilitation
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Assumes that criminal behavior is caused by sociological, psychological, and/or biological forces rather than solely a product of will.
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Restorative Justice
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Repairing the victim-offender-community-relation.
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Secondary Deviance
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Devience from being caught and labeled.
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Strain Theory
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Strain may lead to crime. (no job or money)
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Subcultural Theory
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Argue that certain groups or subcultures in society have values and attitudes that are conducive to crime and violence.
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Transnational Crime
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Ortganized criminal activity across one or more national borders.
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Victimless Crimes
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Vice crimes or illigal activities that have no complaining party. (illigal drugs, prostitution, illigal gambling, pornography).
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White-collar crimes
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Occupational crime and corporate crime in which individuals commit crimes in the course of their employment.
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What percentage of the United States street gangs are racial minorities?
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3/4
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Black males between the ages of 20 and 39 make up about___
of the prison population. |
1/3
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___ out of every 240 people in the US was likly to be a victim of murder in his or her lifetime.
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1 out of 240
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Status offense
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An violation that can only be
committed by a juvenile. (running away, truency, underage drinking) |
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Delinquent offense
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An offense that would be a crime if commited by an adult.
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