Kinds of Crime
Theories
Courts/amendments
Corrections
Misc.
100

the failure to exercise a reasonable amount of care in wither doing or not doing something, resulting in harm or injury to another person

Negligence

100

This theory believes that crime is in the body and brain

Trait theory

100

This Court Case defined: "Reasonable Expectation of Privacy"

Katz v. United States

100

A serious criminal offense punishable by a prison sentence of more than one year

Felony

100

Al Capone was arrested for

Income Tax Evasion

200

the deliberate and malicious burning of another person's property

Arson

200

This theory believes that crime is a result of choosing to do so.

Choice Theory

200

This Court case determined that phones are an expectation of Privacy during a search.

Carpenter v. United States

200

What is one problem with the overuse of incarceration?

- Expensive

- based/discriminatory

- Unconstitutional conditions of confinement

- overcrowding logistics

200

To obtain Liquor illegally, bars became

Speakeasies

300

the taking of money or property by a person to whom it has been entrusted

Embezzlement

300

This theory believes that crime is a result of the person's environment.

Social theory

300

This Amendment stops cruel and unusual punishment

8th Amendment

300

Facilities outside of the U.S. where we intern people, never charge them but just hold them, torture them, kill them:

Extralegal Prisons

300

John Dillinger broke the law in Indiana by:

Starting a streak of bank robberies

400

taking property illegally through threats of harm

Extortion

400

this theory believes that crime involves a student and teacher.

Learning theory

400

This Amendment abolished Slavery

13th Amendment

400

release from prison before the full sentence has been served.

Parole

400

J. Edgar Hoover joined ______ in 1921.

Bureau of Investigations

500

murder that does not require malice or premeditation but is the result of a desire to inflict bodily harm

Second degree Murder

500

This theory believes that crime is a result of stigma and bragging rights.

Labeling Theory

500

This Amendment states that if the President dies, or leaves office, the Vice president becomes president

25th Amendment

500

the death penalty; putting a convicted person to death as punishment for a crime

capital punishment

500

a reasonable belief, known personally or through reliable sources, that a specific person has committed a crime

Probable Cause

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