Models of Law
This model of law suggests that laws reflect shared societal values and beliefs
What is the Consensus Model?
The main difference between these two crimes is that one involves force to take possessions while the other does not?
What are Robbery and Larceny?
This model is often criticized for being too slow and expensive
What is the Due Process Model?
This theory focuses on environmental and societal influences on crime
What is the Sociological Theory?
This report measures crimes reported to law enforcement
According to this model, the group with the most power determines what is a crime?
What is the Conflict Model?
This term describes the act of threatening a person with a weapon and stealing their belongings
What is robbery
The layer of the "Wedding Cake" model that involves misdemeanor cases
What is the bottom layer?
This type of influence on crime includes brain injuries affecting impulse control
What is the biological theory?
A key limitation of the UCR is that it underreports this type of crime
What is White-Collar Crime?
Drunk Driving laws are an example of this model of law creation?
What is the Consensus Model?
Assault differs from battery because it lacks this component
What is physical contact?
The judge's use of this principle allows for flexibility to consider the offender's situation
What is discretion?
Personality traits and mental health are the focus of this type of theory
What is Psychological theory?
What is 25-29?
This criminal justice model focuses on efficiency and repressing crime?
What is the Crime Control Model?
White-collar crime is typically committed in this type of setting
What is a business setting?
This defense argues that the person lacked understanding of their actions due to mental illness
What is the Insanity Defense?
A neighborhood with high unemployment, gang activity, and limited access to education supports this theory of crime
What is Sociological Theory?
This latin phrase describes that criminal intent is necessary to be labeled a crime
What is mens rea?
This criminal justice model prioritizes protecting individual rights, even if it means letting guilty individuals go free
This type of law includes family issues, making a will, or signing contracts
What is Civil Law?
This defense is rarely successful because people often volunteer to enter this altered state of consciousness
What is the Intoxication Defense?
If you get called a criminal, you start to act like a criminal. This statement best describes this theory from Merton
What is labeling theory?
Looking at the last 10 years of data on the UCR, crime most recently peaked in this year
What is 2020?