Behavior
Defines, explains and predicts criminal behavior
What is criminology
Wrote “On Crimes and Punishment”
Who is Cesare Becarria
Least serious norms
What are Folkways
Inspirational figure behind the economic theory
Who is Karl Marx
Communal or folk society
What is Gemeinschaft
Idea that researchers should be neutral or unbiased
What is objectivity
Father of Positivism
Who is Cesare Lombroso
Acts that are bad in themselves
What is Mala in se
Greatest good for the greatest number
What is utilitarianism
Codified written rules that are more serious norms
What are laws
Undiscovered crime
What is the Dark figure of Crime
Assumes that supernatural forces cause crime
What is Demonological theory
A breakdown in mores generating normlessness
What is Anomie
Multiple murder is also called
What is Multicide
Belief that criminals represent a genetic throwback
What is Ativism
Official report on crime maintained by the FBI
What is UCR
A rational actor will be deterred by more severe and certain punishment
What is Deterrence theory
Frustration between achieving certain goals and means
What is the Strain theory
This type of killing is usually sexual in nature
What is serial murder
Women believed to be witches went through this
What is trial by ordeal
Theory that violent crime increases toward the equator
What is Thermic Law of crime
Entering a structure with the intent to commit a crime therein
What is Burglary
Stopping and searching a disproportionate number of minorities
What is racial profiling
When a victim is responsible for their own victimization
What is victim precipitation
The killing at two or more locations with almost no time break.
What is Spree killing