People generally act in their self-interest and make decisions to commit crime after weighing the potential risks (including getting caught and punished) against the rewards.
What is Rational choice theory?
100
Historically, _____ _________ sits in opposition to natural law theories of jurisprudence, with particular disagreement surrounding the natural lawyer's claim that there is a necessary connection between law and morality.
What is 'legal positivism?'
100
The use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense.
What is racial profiling?
100
An American serial killer, nicknamed "_____ ____". After her arrest in 1901, she confessed to 33 murders. She is quoted as saying that her ambition was "to have killed more people — helpless people — than any other man or woman who ever lived..."
Who is "Jolly Jane?"
100
The main three players in the Criminal justice system are Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, and _____ ______.
What is 'Trial Judges?' (Or just judges)
200
A person’s physical and social environments are primarily responsible for the behavioral choices that person makes.
What is Social disorganization theory?
200
A philosophy that certain rights are inherent by virtue of human nature endowed by nature, God, or a transcendent source, and can be understood universally through human reason
What is Natural Law?
200
The "_________" accepts the goals of society but rejects the means of achieving them: Ex: the drug dealer.
What is 'innovator'?
200
What crime was of focus in EPISODE THREE: THE BUCK STOPS HERE??
What is counterfeiting?
200
A Sociologist who proposed the general strain theory to account for criminal behavior.
Who is Robert Agnew?
300
Most people have similar aspirations, but they don’t all have the same opportunities or abilities. When people fail to achieve society’s expectations through approved means such as hard work and delayed gratification, they may attempt to achieve success through crime.
What is Strain theory?
300
Laws created by court decisions rather than by legislative bodies refers to
What is Common Law
300
The father of biosocial theories in criminology.
Who is Cesare Lombroso?
300
A "_______ ____" operation is when undercover police officers show up at a deal offering to sell drugs instead of buying them. They essentially raid their own evidence lockers for drugs and try to entice criminals into buying their merchandise
What is a "reverse sting" operation?
300
Which theory believes that the law and the criminal justice system primarily embody the interests and norms of the most powerful groups in society, rather than those of society as a whole.
What is conflict theory?
400
People develop motivation to commit crime and the skills to commit crime through the people they associate with.
What is Social learning theory?
400
'mala in se' means 'this' in Latin
What is “wrong by itself?”
400
The unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought
What is Murder?
400
In 'EPISODE 26: ANGIE (9.11.2015)' what was the profession of the person who solved Angie's murder?
What is a professional soccer player?
400
In Hirschi's social bonding theory their are four types of bonds, attachment, ___________, involvement,
and belief.
What is 'commitment?'
500
Poor diet, mental illness, bad brain chemistry, and even evolutionary rewards for aggressive criminal conduct have been proposed as explanations for crime.
What is Biosocial theories (including Biology, genetics, and evolutionary theories)
500
When you are culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing you are '______.'
What is ''Guilty?"
500
In criminology, differential association is a theory developed by "_____ __________" proposing that through interaction with others, individuals learn the values, attitudes, techniques, and motives for criminal behavior.
Who is Edwin Sutherland?
500
What crime was the focus of Episode 31: American Dream (11.27.2015)?
What is bank-robbing?
500
An allowance made for reduction in the earnings of a business due to wastage or theft