this crime is typical for young first time offenders.
What is burglary?
100
Violent behavior motivated by rage, anger, or frustration.
What is expressive violence?
100
The view that the great majority of citizens agree that certain behaviors must be outlawed or controlled and the criminal law is designed to protect citizens from social harm.
What is the consensus View?
100
Weather has no affect on crime rates during the year.
What is False?
200
this age group is more likely to commit crimes and be repeat offenders.
What are teenagers?
200
Type of Killer who kills over a long period of time, but typically assume a normal identity between murders.
What is a serial killer?
200
The View that criminal law reflects the preferences and opinions of people who hold social power in society and use their influence to impose their own values and moral code on the rest of the population.
What is the interactionist view of crime?
200
Racial Threat Hypothesis is the theory that minority males are subject to greater police control than white males.
What is TRUE?
300
This group is said to have a predisposition toward violent crime due to their hormones.
What are men?
300
Violent behavior that results from criminal activity designed to improve the financial status of the culprit. Example: shooting someone during a bank robbery.
What is instrumental violence?
300
The view that criminal law is created and enforced by those who hold political power and is a tool used by the ruling class to control dissatisfied have-not member of society
What is the conflict view?
300
Women commit less crime because they are given more freedom to be themselves than men growing up.
What is False?
400
life sentence for being convicted of 3 felonies.
What is the three-strikes law.
400
This group makes up 1/3 of the nation's population, but only account for 6% of arrests.
Who are the elderly?
400
Recieving stolen property is an example of what type of crime?
What is property crime?
400
People who wage campaigns to control behaviors they view as morally wrong.
Who are moral entrepreneurs?
400
Crime rates are higher in cities that in rural areas of the nation.
What is True?
500
A violation of the social rules of conduct.
What is crime?
500
This group repeat offends due to various personal, social, and economic disadvantages.
What are children?
500
Criminal Acts directed toward a particular person or members of a group because they share a discernable raical, ethnic, religious, or gender characteristic.
What are hate crimes?
500
The View that sees crime as means to protect the upper class and control the lower classes.
What is the conflict view?
500
The feminist view of crime shows that women commit less crime than men because of their lower social economic status in America.