An act that violates the criminal law and is punishable by the state.
What is a crime?
100
A systematic effort to measure the experiences of the victims of crime by interviewing a cross section of a population..
What is a victimization survey?
100
The financial losses that result from violent crimes in which victims are physically hurt..
What are the Costs related to criminal violence?
100
Males, youths, and the poor are more likely to be these.
What are offenders AND victims?
100
A person “born out of time” and similar to primitive people or lower animals in his or her biological makeup; the basis of the “born criminal.”
What is Atavism?
200
An academic discipline that gathers and analyzes data to explain violations of the criminal law and societal reactions to those violations.
What is criminology?
200
A crime reporting system implemented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
What is the Uniform Crime Report or National Incident Based Reporting System?
200
The spending of money on illegal goods and services such as drugs, gambling, and prostitution. .
What are illegal expenditures?
200
Burglary, auto theft and robbery are highest during this season.
What is summer?
200
A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate social norms or rules are violated.
What is conduct disorder?
300
The willed or conscious desire to commit an act that violates a criminal law.
What is criminal intent?
300
Research that measures crime by having respondents report their own violations.
What is a self-reporting survey?
300
The use of violence by national governments as a tool of foreign policy.
What is state-sponsored terrorism?
300
This is social standing based on economic resources, occupational prestige, political power, or lifestyle.
What is social class?
300
The legal rule stating that a person will be found not guilty by reason of insanity if at the time of the crime the person was under a defect of reason so as to be unable either to know the nature and the quality of the act.
What is the M'Naghten Rule?
400
An approach that sees the criminal law as closely intertwined with the distribution of political power and economic resources in a society.
What is the conflict perspective?
400
The number of crimes that actually occur but are not recorded by the police.
What is the dark figure of crime?
400
The cost of crimes in which property is transferred from one person to another, such as from the victim of a theft to the thief.
What is the Transfer of Property?
400
A model of metropolitan areas based on concentric rings with distinctive characteristics..
What is a concentric zone model?
400
A body type that results from embryonic development and is thought to be associated with a particular temperament .
What is a somatotype?
500
An approach to crime that emphasizes free will and the deterrence of criminal behavior by the fear of punishment.
What is the classical school of criminology?
500
The number of reported crimes divided by the number of people in an area, often expressed as a rate of crimes per 100,000 people..
What is the crime rate?
500
This is an offense that is consensual and lacks a complaining participant.
What is a victimless crime?
500
The number of arrests per 100,000 people in a given age category.
What is an Age-specific arrest rate?
500
A serious mental disorder that involves delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior