Vocab Ch. 1
What is Restitution?
Payment, repair, or community service projects begin to pay back the victims or the community for losses, injuries, or harm caused by the criminal behaviors.
When a person accepts responsibility for his or her actions and makes efforts to repair the harm caused.
What is Harm?
The action or result of inflicting loss or pain.
Repairing a damaged garden is an example of what?
Restitution
Arson, GTA, and Forgery are examples of what?
Property Crime
What is a Victim?
The person(s) who is harmed because of a crime.
What is Victim-Blaming?
Putting the blame, or partial blame, on the victim.
What is a Property Crime?
Property is anything owned or that can be owned, property crime involves the illegal taking or destruction of another’s property without the use of threat or force against that person.
Writing a sincere apology that acknowledges the harm you caused is an example of what?
Amends
Breaking someone's bone is an example of what?
Physical Impact
What is Amends?
When the youth who have committed crimes begins to address the harm for his or her actions; changing behavior and taking responsibility for the harm.
What is Denying?
Rejecting one’s connection to a crime.
What is Physical Impact?
Physical impact has to do with the body, actions or the body’s response to crime.
Sports Teams are an example of what?
Community
What is it called when Sheila starts to fear all men because her ex-husband nearly beat her to death?
Emotional Impact
What is a community?
A geographic area such as a neighborhood, city, state, country, or a group of people who share something in common.
What is Rationalizing?
Trying to justify the crime.
Emotional impact includes the feelings in response to a crime. It may be initial responses like fear or shock, but it also includes responses that may happen after the crime.
A broken arm is an example of what?
Victim Impact
Daily Double: If I were to stab you, would the victims of my crime include your loved ones?
Yes - as Secondary Victims.
What is Victim Impact?
The harm caused to victims, their families, or the community because of a criminal action.
What is Minimizing?
Suggesting the impact of the crime is less than it really is.
What is Psychological Impact?
Psychological impact is how the crime affects the mind or mental abilities to respond.
Joe is in the safe seat for pushing other students out of his way as he entered the classroom. When the teacher drops by to process with him and asks him what he will do next time, Joe says, “The same thing, because I didn’t do anything wrong. He pushed me first!”
Denial
What is it called when Daryll quits his job in order to make sure every door and window in his house are locked every hour on the hour?
Psychological Impact