Super traits such introversion/extroversion
neuroticism/emotional stability are associated with this
What is Trait Theory?
100
Crimes about saying something
What are expressive crimes?
100
The most typical occurrence of victimization
What is not random?
100
The possible verdicts from a criminal trial
What are guilty, not guilty, and hung jury?
100
Restitution
What is an offender's financial reimbursement to the victim for harms related to victimization?
200
Seek to explain how people learn to solve problems
and how they perceive and interpret the social environment
What are Cognitive Theories?
200
Someone the person knows
What is the person most likely to vicitmize a person?
200
The class that commits the most crime
What is the lower class?
200
How age impacts the level of crime (age/crime curve).
What is crime decreases as you get past mid-twenties.
200
Crime measurement tool that measures the dark figure of crime.
What is the NCVS?
300
As people evolve to higher stages of moral reasoning, they are unlikely to commit crime because they appreciate the needs and interests of others as well as their own needs
What is Moral Development Theory?
300
Latin for guilty mind
What is mens rea?
300
One who kills in a rampage of violence taking place over a period of days or weeks
What is a spree killer?
300
Intraracial
What is the racial composition of most crime?
300
Three types of rape
What is date, forcible/regular, statutory?
400
Some theorists believe that violent individuals may be using information incorrectly when making decisions
What is Cognitive Information-Processing Theory?
400
The direction of the trend of crime rates over the last few decades
What is a general trend of decline?
400
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400
Double Jeopardy
What is the legal protection against being tried twice for the same crime?
400
Violation of codified laws
What is crime?
500
Samenow and Yochelson believed that criminals make different assumptions about living and behaving than noncriminals do because of ingrained and pervasive errors of thinking
What is The Criminal Mindset?
500
When the victim is accused of playing a part in victimization
What is victim-blaming?
500
Antisocial Personality Disorder
What is marked by the inability to empathize with others?
500
Violation of social norms
What is deviance?
500
The key component in a criminal charge which mandates the defendant be able to hire an attorney or request that the court appoint one