An act, deemed socially harmful or dangerous, that is specifically defined, prohibited, and punished under the criminal law.
What is crime?
100
An approach to punishment which rests on the belief that it will prevent future offending.
What is deterrence?
100
The name for the lawyer who represents the state in criminal proceedings.
District attorney or prosecutor.
100
A crime policy initiated during the 1970s that has been described as on of the chief causes of the rise of mass incarceration.
What is the War on Drugs?
200
This is the direction that crime rates have gone in the last twenty years.
What is down?
200
Behaviors that depart from social norms.
What is deviance?
200
A person's relapse into criminal behavior.
What is recidivism?
200
The time in the court process when a person who is accused of a crime is brought before a court and formal charges are read against them, bail is considered, and a trial date is set.
Arraignment.
200
Legal sanctions and restrictions imposed on people because of their criminal record.
What are collateral consequences?
300
The intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the moral order.
What is a moral panic?
300
He said: "...there are two types of laws: there are just laws, and there are unjust laws."
Who is Martin Luther King?
300
A treatment-based process, intervention or program to enable individuals to overcome previous difficulties linked to their offending.
What is rehabilitation?
300
These are the names of the institutions where individuals go to be detained before they have been convicted of a crime.
What are jails?
300
The name of the inmate who plays Horatio in the Hamlet production staged in the prison in Missouri, profiled in This American Life. This inmate talks about big fish and little fish in the prison.
Who is Big Hutch?
400
The name of the official data on crime that is compiled by the FBI.
What are the Uniform Crime Reports?
400
People enter into law-violating careers when they are identified by their acts and organize their personalities around those forms of identification.
What is labeling theory?
400
The idea that an offender's ability to commit future crimes should be removed, either physically or geographically (through locking them up, removing offending limbs, or killing them).
What is incapacitation?
400
Is concerned with perceptions of fairness about legal processes.
What is procedural justice?
400
The hypothesis that the police, courts, and other agencies extend leniency to women because they are women.
What is the chivalry hypothesis?
500
Three populations who are not counted in household crime surveys.
Who are homeless people, institutionalized people, college students, and people without phones.
500
Views knowledge as the result of people interacting and coming to agreement about facts and ideas in the world.
What is social constructionism?
500
The idea that offenders should only be punished as severely as they deserve. Sentences should be proportional to the crime, and offenders should receive social disapproval.
What is just deserts?
500
Judgements about this shape people's willingness to accept the decisions of legal authorities and their everyday obedience to the law.
What is legitimacy?
500
This word is used to describe the process of ceasing offending.