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27 Cards in this Set
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Violence
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- behavior intended to cause pain, injury, or death to another
- corm or deviant |
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Crime
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-violations of criminal law
-Roscoe Pound "law of the books" and "law of action" |
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Felony
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-A serious offense, usually punishable by death or a prison term of a year or longer
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Misdemeanor
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-A minor offense usually punishable by a short term in jail or by payment of a fine
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Violent Crime
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-a crime directed against a person
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Property Crime
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theft or other crimes against property
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Victimless Crime
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A crime with no obvious victim.. ex gambling or prostitution
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homicide vs murder
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killing in general vs ILLEGAL killing
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Murder vs Manslaughter
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Killing with malice v killing without malice
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Assault
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an attack on a person with the intention to hurt or kill
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Who is likely to kill or assault
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- 60 percent of murders were close friends or relative
-51 percent of assaults knew assaulter |
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Rape
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forcible rape - sexual intercourse forced against his or her will
illegal rape- under age After age of 19 drop in chances of getting raped for female a lot of rape is unreported raped occuring in a some kind of relationship is less likely to be reported than with strangers |
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Robbery
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taking of anothers property by force
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Reporting of crime vs Crimes Committed
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Since 90's crime has gone down but reporting of crime has gone up
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Definition of Crime vs Definition of Deviance
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crime- violation of law
deviance- violates a standard of behavior |
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Classical Theory
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1764 on Crimes and Punishment
Cost/benefit - people who commit crime prioritize gains -offers more pleasure and less pain --rational desire Bentham/Baccaria |
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Rational Theory
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-crime is a rational choice of the offender
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Positive Theory
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-rejected the idea that crime was based on free choice
-genetic predisposition -survival and competition of genes later restructured around biological inheritance |
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Labeling theory
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branding someone a deviant encourages deviant behavior
Publicity = label no publicity = no label |
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Deferential Association Theory
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people commit crimes because they have more and more stronger associations with those who favor a certain criminal behavior than with those who oppose it
-deviant subcultures behaviors are learned from others associated with |
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Control Theory
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-holds that people commit crimes because of the failure of social controls on criminal behavior
Emphasizes bonds external control- police car internal- built through socialization- fear/ conscience Hierschi- more external control needed |
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General Theory of Crime
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crime weak self control of the criminal
- easy way to get what you want -poor socialization by family |
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Strain Theory
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-Robert Merton
strain produced by society that says wealth is good but restricts access Disjunction- socially approved goods of society vs. means of achieving those goals |
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Anomie
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- Emily Durkheim and anomie
- normlessness - a condition in which social norms have broken down and no longer regulate individual regulate individual behavior -modern industrial society (right and wrong lost) |
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Critical Theory
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-a theory that holds that the capitalist economic system is the root cause of the crime problem in modern industrial societies
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Alienation Karl Marx style
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1 normlessness
2 social isolation 3 powerlessness |
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Mertons 4 categories
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Conformists, innovator, ritual, retreatist, rebel
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