Intro to CRIM
the scientific study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behavior
What is criminology
"inherently bad" when speaking about a crime
What is mala in se
American criminology is based on which school of criminology
What is Neoclassical Crim
Crime rate (how do we calculate it)
What is When we divide the number of reported crimes committed in a state by the population of the state and multiply by 100,000
I attended this college
What is Texas A&M University
a perspective and set of techniques for analyzing social life, social change and the social causes and consequences of human behavior
What is sociology
A property of individuals that signals the willingness to commit those and other harmful acts
what is criminality
One primary difference between the classical school of criminology and the neoclassical school of criminology
What is the use of scientific approach of the neoclassical school
The primary source of official crimes stats in the U.S. is
What is UCR (Uniform Crime Reports)
This theory can explain the "Scooby" incident
What is Routine Activities theory
This is a major difference between criminal justice and criminology
What is criminal justice is primarily concerned with agencies of social control while criminology deals with the origin, extent, and nature of crime in society
He is the founder of classical criminology
Who is Cesare Beccaria
The scientific method from which more positive knowledge can be obtained
What is positivism
This is the hierarchy rule in reporting crimes in the UCR
What is reporting only the most serious offense when multiple offenses occur in a single incident
I achieve this certification this summer
What is Certified Fitness Trainer
Humans have perceived a phenomenon, named it, and categorized it to make notes of similarities and differences to understand their existence with others.
What is social construction
This founder was credited with "Bow Street Runners" and experimental criminology
Who is Henry Fielding
What is a soft determinist (daily double)
What is while crime is a choice, it made within context of personal and situational opportunities.
Dark figures and which measure has the largest amount in respect to proportion
What is the portion of the total crimes committed each year that never come to light; UCR
This is the number of siblings I have
What is 3
These are the three views noted in class about how we understand the causes of crime. Provide an example of each
What are Consensus (wide agreement upon what is a crime), conflict (law as a tool to mediate a power struggle between classes), interactionist (crimes are crimes because we have attached meanings to them).
These are are two major areas of criminology that are covered in Reading 1 and this is one major difference
What is Analytical Crim and Experimental Crim. Analytical leans heavily on theory while experimental focuses on practice.
The scientific method
What is developing a problem, literature review, hypothesis, research design, findings, conclusion
Provide 4 of the 5 ways the NIBRS differs from the UCR
What is NIBRS tracks more crime, more information about the arrest in each incident, info reported to the police about the incident, provides information on simple assault, and requires officers to report multiple offenses, victims and offenders compared to the UCR
This theory I investigated in my dissertation and this is what it states
What is Merton's Status Exchange theory and it states that for marriages to occur between black males and white females, there must be an exchange of "racial status" for economic status"