Models
Patterns of how people tend to feel, think and act in the context of conflict and danger.
What is Conflict Model
The premise that every individual only has the power to control themselves and has limited power to control others.
What is Choice Theory
A victim is harmed by or threatened with violence
What is Violent Crime
An organized group of criminals.
What are gangs
The tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.
What is Recidivism?
Expeditious processing of defendants through the court system
What is Crime Control Model
The reason for deviant behavior
An offense that is punishable by death.
What is Capital Crime
What is Criminology?
The study of the development, structure, and functioning of human society.
What is Sociology?
A view of the legal process that places a premium on the rights of the accused and the maintenance of fair procedures by which such people are processed within the criminal justice system.
What is Due Process Model
A person's residential location is more significant than the person's characteristics when predicting criminal activity and the juveniles living in these areas acquire criminality by the approval of the culture within the disadvantaged urban neighborhoods.
What is Social Disorganization Theory
Crimes that are carried out with or against technology.
What is High Tech Crime
The action of causing something.
What is Causation?
The fact or state of departing from usual or accepted standards, especially in social or sexual behavior.
What is Deviance?
The organizations of a criminal justice system either do, or should, work cooperatively to produce justice
What is Consensus Model
Self-identity and the behavior of individuals may be determined or influenced by the terms used to describe or classify them.
What is Labeling Theory
Crimes in full range of frauds committed by business and government professionals
What is white-collar crime?
The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
What is Terrorism?
The genetic properties or features of an organism, characteristics, etc.
What are Genetics?
A model of criminal justice is a model of the criminal justice process whereby a four-tiered hierarchy exists, with a few celebrated cases at the top, and lower tiers increasing in size as the severity of cases becomes less severe.
What is the Wedding Cake Model
A theory in which people engage in crime because of their association with others who engage in crime
What is Learning Theory
Any acts or behaviors that are considered to interfere with the normal flow of society.
What are Public Order Crimes?
A lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.
What is Anomie?
A cultural group within a larger culture often has beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture.
What is a Subculture?