Racial Statistics
Racial group that represents about 13% of the population but makes up 43% of the arrests for violent crime
What are African Americans?
Neglect, physical, sexual, and verbal
What are the four types of child abuse?
the state of being extremely poor
What is poverty?
The mental illness categorized by a lack of remorse or genuine sense of empathy or regard for human/animal life due to a pre-existing biological deficiency in the brain
Hint: the mental disorder many serial killers have...
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Crimes that affect the mental of physical health of another person
What is a personal crime?
Leading racial group for white collar crimes (crimes of fraud or money-relation)
What are white Americans?
People who are physically/sexually abused as children are less likely to do the same to others
(answer true or false)
False :(
This age group is more likely to indulge in criminal behavior once they reach cyclical unemployment
What are people younger than 30?
An addiction to a substance that inevitably changes normal desires and priorities
What is substance abuse?
Personal, Property, Inchoate, and Statutory
What are the four types of crime?
Asians commit 6% of these two crimes
What is gambling and prostitution?
The likelihood a child who experiences abuse will commit crimes in the future
What is 14-26%?
The feelings people experience once unemployed for long periods of time that make them disinterested in finding a "legitimate" source of income
What is a sense of exclusion, injustice, or lack of hope?
The disorder for children who experience a lack/no emotional attachment for their caregivers due to a emotional neglect in infancy/childhood
What is an attachment disorder?
Name a type of inchoate crime
What is attempted burglary, solicitation, or conspiracy?
What percent of murders in the United States are committed by African Americans?
What is 53% (will accept 50%)?
The mindset abused children develop once entering the adult world
What is a feeling of vulnerability and a need to protect oneself, the idea that no one can be trusted, a need for social distance, or a willingness to use violence/intimidation to repel others?
The two reasons crime increased in the early 20th century
What is urbanization and increased European immigration?
Children with attachment disorders tend to displace these things in the place of caregivers because these physical things require no emotional relation
What is food and money?
This type of law deals with private matters between individuals and is not prosecuted by the state
What is civil law?
Name one of the sections of the brain analyzed by Nneka Isamah's scientific team when researching structural differences in the brain across various ethnic/racial groups.
What is the amygdala, hippocampus, lateral ventricles, caudate nucleus, or orbitofrontal cortex?
In the 1988 study by Dorothy Otnow Lewis, of the 37 juveniles condemned to death, how many of them reported to be abused as children?
Hint: Less than 20, more than 10...
What is 17?
During this type of national economic state, property crimes are the most prevalent
What is a recession?
People with antisocial personality disorder are easily capable of committing these types of acts/crimes due to an indifference for their victims emotions or pain
What is violent, aggravated, sexual, or sadistic perversions
The type of law created by judges based on precedents
What is common law?