Defintions
Define the world harm.
What is the action or result of inflicting loss or pain?
What is something that is mostly false?
Define insurance.
What is a practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a premium?
The 4 impacts of crime
What are emotional, physical, financial, and psychological impacts?
Define victim-blaming... give an example
What is putting blame or partial blame for the harm on the victim?
(Well they did not lock their doors)
Give 3 examples of a physical impact
What are bruises, concussions, scratches, sprains, cuts, broken bones, etc?
Define reality.
What is something that is mostly true?
Calculate the money Sarah will get from her insurance:
Sarah has a 450$ auto deductible. Sarah's car got broken in to, the auto shop told her it would cost 610$... how much is Sarah getting from her insurance company?
What is 160$
$610 (in damages) - $450 deductible = $160
What are computer programs, the words to a song, a short story, or a video game?
Define rationalizing...
What is trying to justify the harm?
Give 4 examples of emotional impact
What is anger, sadness, stress, fearful, hatred, scared, etc?
Myth or Reality:
Stealing someone's welfare or social security check only harms the government?
What is a myth?
(Welfare and social security recipients, such as the elderly or disabled, survive paycheck to paycheck and face problems such as eviction if they do not receive their checks on time)
When someone buys a house, the bank or mortgage company -the moneylender- requires the borrower to buy insurance called...
What is homeowners' insurance?
List 6 items with emotional significance.... explain.
What are....
Define restitution...
What is the payment, repair, or community service projects that begin to pay back the victims or the community for losses, injuries, or harm cause by the criminal behaviors?
What is an effect to mind or mental abilities to respond? (Suicidal thoughts, PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc)
Myth or Reality:
Victims of property crime could have prevented it?
(There are many things people can do to make their property more secure or less tempting. But there is nothing that justifies the taking of someone else's stuff)
Define usable life.
What is the longer a person owns something, the less valuable it becomes?
Joe and Patricias house was broken in to... the thief stole the TV, a vase with their child's ashes, a brand-new ROLEX watch, and a few cans of fruit... which item might have the most sentimental value?
What is the vase with their child's ashes?
Define primary victim and secondary victim... give examples for each.
What are those individuals who are directly impacted by a crime? (The elderly lady who got her car stolen).
What are those individuals who are indirectly harmed or affected by crime? (The elderly woman takes her grandkids to school every morning, now her grandkids have no way to get to school)
What is anything owned or that can be owned (Cars, houses, tv, computer programs, words to a song). Property crime is the illegal taking or destruction of another person property without the use of threat or force against that person.
Myth or Reality:
Writing graffiti on walls causes harm to the community
What is reality?
(Graffiti ratification costs the community money to remove or clean up. Graffiti that reflects racial, ethnic, or religious slurs. And gang signs or alluding to gangs, may offend members of the community and provoke fear).
A TV costs 800$ when you bought it, you own it for 6 years, it is now worth $200... what is this called?
What is depreciation?
Your grandparents' house got broken in to at 9pm on Sunday night. They are both traumatized and are worried it may happen again, they are retired, and do not work in the morning. You have to wake up at 7am to go to work... what do you do?
Explain.
Name 3 forms of restorative justice...
Community Service
Apology letter
Restitution
Victim impact classes or panels