Chapter 3 terms
A violation of social norms defining appropriate or proper behavior under a particular set of circumstances
What is deviance?
This part I crime has the highest clearance rate.
What is murder?
This federal agency compiles the UCR based on crime statistics of over 16,000 police agencies in the United States.
What is the F.B.I.?
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What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
A set of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe, explain, predict, and ultimately control some class of events
What is a theory?
This type of murder involves killing at least four victims at one location during one event.
What is mass murder?
This type of crime reporting represents a significant redesign of the original UCR.
What is NIBRS?
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What is the National Incident-Based Reporting System?
An eighteenth-century approach to crime causation and criminal responsibility that emphasizes free will and reasonable punishments.
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What is the Classical School of Criminology?
This agency is responsible for the National Crime Victimization Survey.
With this type of murder, there is some period of time between each killing.
What is serial killing?
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What is a serial killer?
He is considered to be a Classical School criminologist and often referred to as the "Father" of the Classical School of Criminology.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
This phrase refers to crime not reported to the police.
What is the dark figure of crime?
Most hate crimes are committed by this.
What is racial bias?
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What is racial hatred?
A theory of human behavior, based on the writings of Sigmund Freud, that sees personality as a complex composite of interacting mental entities
What is Psychoanalytic theory?
This compares the number of reported or discovered crimes to the number of crimes solved through arrest or other means.
What is the clearance rate?
A classification of crimes along a particular dimension, such as legal categories, offender motivation, victim behavior, or the characteristics of individual offenders.
What is crime typology?