Vocab
A person that starts a lawsuit
Plantiff
A crime that is so bad, it is considered as an offense to society as a whole and falls into the this type of law
Criminal Law
Synonym for "murder"
Homicide
The murder rate in America has dropped by this sub-forty percentage over the course of the past 30 years
39%
Help in a difficult situation
Recourse
Legal responsibility for one's own actions or another's actions
Liability
These laws consist of all the other laws that do NOT constitute Criminal Law
Judge Judy practices this type of law
Civil Law
Arrests for violent crimes only comes out to this "pentagonal percentage"
5%
The number of women arrested over the past 30 years has increased by this two decade old percentage
20%
Crimes that are punishable by death or imprisonment for more than one year
Felonies
Uniform Crime Report
Used to describe an action that is wrong even if there is no law against it
Mala in Se
The crime rate in America is inherently tied to:
The economy
Women suffer domestic violence rates by this sub-twenty five percentage
24%
This method of reporting crime statistics across America is the newest and categorizes offenses into Group A and Group B
The National Incident Based Reporting System
A term used to describe the actual amount of crime that takes place in the U.S.
The Dark Figure of Crime
Acts that are considered crimes because there are laws that prohibits these acts
Mala Prohibita
Imprisonment, the youth, and the economy are three factors criminologists use to determine "those suspected of a crime"
The "usual suspects"
In America at colleges around the country, this many women in five will be the victim of sexual assault
1
This type of crime reporting consists of measuring reported and unreported crimes, are untouched by police bias, and does not rely on reporting a crime to any law enforcement agency
Victim Surveys
A discriminatory practice wherein Black People are prevented from purchasing homes in a certain, arbitrary area
Redlining
Contains a Part I and Part II and forms a more complete data set compared to it's counterpart
Summary Reporting Systems
Summary Reporting
Between what span of time (year to year) has the number of women arrested been increasing?
1991 to 2019
Like all the people that make 9/11 jokes
11%
Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between Mala in Se and Mala Prohibita because it is difficult to define a "pure Mala in Se" crime. This is because:
Some crimes are culturally specific