Crime and Criminology
Relativity of Law and Crime/Crime Statistics
Distribution of Crime
Theories of Crime
More Theories of Crime
100
The model of criminal justice that says that criminal law reflects the interest of members of the society at large is the _______
What is Consensus Model
100
Movement in and out of the continuum of socially desirable behavior is what criminologists refer to as the
What is Relativity of Crime
100
A habitual offender is often referred to as a
What is Career Offender
100
Deterrence theory assumes that all people
are rational are hedonistic act on free will
100
Social structure theories of crime are ___________-level theories.
What is Macro
200
The model of criminal justice that presumes that the state serves the interests of the powerful and elite minority is known as the _________
What is Conflict Model
200
The belief that one’s own cultural norms are superior to any other is known as
What is Ethnocentrism
200
According to the UCR, the majority of crime is said to be committed
What is in the evening and nighttime hours
200
If a department store installed dome surveillance cameras in an attempt to try and detect criminal activity, this would be an example of _____________________.
What is Target Hardening
200
According to the concentric zone model, in which zone(s) do the most crimes occur?
What is Zone 2
300
The study of the process of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting toward the breaking of laws is known as ______
What is Criminology
300
The National Crime Victimization Survey is conducted jointly by the _________________ and the U.S. Department of Justice.
What is the US Census Bureau
300
When explaining female crime, the suggestion that daughters are more closely controlled by a patriarchal family is proposed by__________
What is Power and Control Model
300
Who is most commonly known as the “Father of Positivistic Criminology”?
What is Cesare Lombroso
300
_________________ theories view crime as a result of stress, frustration, and failed aspirations or blocked opportunities.
What is Strain
400
An approach to the study of phenomena that incorporates both theory and methodology is known as __________
What is Scientific Method
400
One of the major sources of crime statistics is the ____
What is UCR
400
The policy that advocates incarcerating career criminals and other high-rate offenders in order to reduce societal costs is known as
What is Selective Incapacitation
400
The positivism paradigm focuses on __________________; the rational choice paradigm focuses on _________________.
What is Treatment, Punishment
400
The subculture of violence theory discusses protecting ___________; while the code of the streets is concerned with protecting ______________.
What is Honor, Respect
500
Under which criminological paradigm does the deterrence doctrine fall?
What is Rational Choice
500
. Data for the Uniform Crime Reports are reported to the _________________________ by state and local law enforcement agencies.
What is FBI
500
This term is used to describe the amount of time an individual has spent committing crime.
What is Criminal Career
500
____________ theorists maintain that official reactions to law violations label people as criminals and ensnare them in a deviant identity.
What is Labeling
500
The criminological theory that states that “a person is free to commit delinquent acts because his ties to the conventional order have somehow been broken” is known as
What is Social Bond Theory
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