Crime
This kind of crime includes small-scale, personal offenses and property crime.
What is street crime?
This is the murder of three or more people in a single incident.
What is a mass murder?
Number of offenses never reported to police?
What are "about half" of crimes?
First 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Children in this age range account for the highest percentage of child abuse and neglect victims.
What is birth to 3 years of age?
What is a felony?
Crime punished by up to a year in jail?
What is a misdemeanor?
Most extensive and useful means of measuring crime available.
What are the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)?
This type of law is enacted by legislatures.
What is statutory law?
Performed the half-time show at this year's Super Bowl.
Who is The Weeknd?
This is the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.
What is a robbery?
In this form of theft, an offender takes possessions that do not belong to him or her with the intent of keeping them.
What is a larceny?
This is the number of Crime Index offenses divided by the population of an area.
What is the crime rate?
This major English document, “Great Charter,” contributed to U.S. law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This means guilty mind.
What is mens rea?
According to the wedding-cake model of criminal justice, this represents the top layer.
What are celebrated cases?
An example of this type of crime is conspiracy.
What is an inchoate offense?
Deborah's cell phone is stolen from her bag. Later, a census taker interviews her about the incident. this term best describes this type of research.
What is a victimization survey?
The legal principle in which courts are bound by the decisions of previous courts
What is stare decisis?
This defense involves the defendant claiming not to have been at the scene of a crime during its commission.
What is an alibi?
Criminologists use this term to refer to instances wherein a victim plays an active role in initiating conflict.
What is victim precipitation?
This criminal offense is committed during the course of business for financial gain.
What is white-collar crime?
This is designed to gather data on each criminal act even if several acts are committed within the same complex of behavior.
What is the National Incident Based Reporting Systems (NIBRS)?
Written on an ancient stone tablet, this collection of over 250 laws covered a wide range of issues.
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
After a trial family members of the victims speak in court about how the crime affected them.
What is a victim impact statement?