Criminology 3

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Why are homicides and aggravated assults more common in urban areas?

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Population density

Household overcrowding

Weak social institutions

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Geographic patterns

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Higher in urban areas

Homicide rates highest in south

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Young black males rise in crime why?

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Despair resulting from declining exonomic opp.

Increased drug trafficking

Increased use of powerful handguns

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Murder

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Unlawful killing of one han by another

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Forcible rape

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Forcing sexual intercourse on someone against there will

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Sheild law

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Violence against women act of 1994 (violation of civil rights)

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Rape

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A violent corercive act of aggression not a forceful expression of sexuality

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1st degree murder

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Person kills another after premeditation

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2nd degree murder

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Malice aforethought but not premeditated-bar fight and guy dies

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Felony murder

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Killing accompanying a committed felony

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Manslaughter

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Unlawful homicide without malice

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Voluntary manslaughter

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Injur with intent but without malice equaling death

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Involuntary manslaughter

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Recklessley taking the life of another-bar fight and people die due to fire escape locked

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Justified homicide

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Self defense

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Excusable homicide

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Death occurred not due to negligence and accused acted prudent and reasonable

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School violence

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Availability to guns media violence and a culture of violence

Offenders likely to be those rejected by parents and peers

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Primary homicides

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Involve family memebers and friends

Expensive crimes result from interpersonal hostility

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Non primary homicides

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Involve victims and offenders who have no prior relationship

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Robbery

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Taking or attempting to take anything if value from care custody or control of a person by force or threat of force or violence

Robbing is by FORCE

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Why do people committ robbery?

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Economic gain

Desire to look cool or gain respect

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Typologies of robbery

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Open area

After association

Robbery after long duration

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Assult

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Most reported

Requires no actual touching but involves either attempted battery or intentionally frightening the victim by word or deed

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Battery

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Requires offensive touching such as hitting or slapping a victim

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Aggravated assult

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The unlawful act by one person on another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury

-domestic violence

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Stalking

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Knowling and willfully follows another person or places a person under survaliance and or:

Transmits a threat or places that person in immediate bodily harm

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Stalking laws

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Illinois-class 4 felony

If the victim is harmed, put in confinmemt or restraints or violates a restraining order it is a class 3 felony

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Why do men committ most homicides and aggravated assult?

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Confrontational homicide-"contest of honor"

Violent nature of masculinity

Poverty

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Similarities between molestation and rape

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Mostly male perpetrators

Female victims between 5-20 yrs

Usually premeditated

Mostly heterosexual

Interracial

Dominance and power

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Property crimes

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Make up over half of all crimes

Most people have committed property crimes

Costly

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Geographic patterns of property crime

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Highest in west and lowest in northwest (ncvs)

Ucr indicates highest in south

Higher in urban

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Criminal career

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Criminal behavior as an integrated dynamic structure of sequential unlawful acts that advances within a wider context of causal and correlative influences

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Who tends to be shoplifters?

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Juveniles

All social classes

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Larceny

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Theft

Trespassing, taking and carrying away of personal property

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Petty larceny

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Small amounts of money or property $50-100

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Grand larceny

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Theft of property from a person exceeding $300

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Fraud

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Obtaining property by false pretenses

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Sexualized burglary

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Fetishes

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Offense specialization

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A preference for a certain type of offense

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Cafeteria style offending

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Heterogeneous and unplanned nature of offending among gang members

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Occasional offenders

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A criminal offender whose offending patterns are guided primarily by opportunity

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5 categories of auto theft

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Joyriding-stealing for benefit

Short term-stealing to get somewhere

Long term- intention to keep cars

Profit-stealing for profit

Commission of another crime

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Burglary

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Any unlawful entry of a structure to commit theft or felony

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3 subclasses of buglary

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Forcible entry

Unlawful entry

No force used,attempted forcible entry

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The good burglar

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Specialization

Finincial success

Ability to avoid prision sentence

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The burglars career ladder

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Journeyman

Professional

Rational decision making

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Arson

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Willful and malicious burning of a home public building...

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Aggravated arson

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Burning knowing that there are other people inside or involved in any harm

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Criminal sexual assult

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Act of sexual penetration by force or threat

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Terrible triad

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Bed wetting

Fire starting

Animal torture