Terminology
Criminal Justice System
Crime Control
People
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Criminal deviance can often be blamed on this social condition in which norms are weak or conflicting
What is anomie?
100
This aspect of the criminal justice system is often the first part with which offenders are involved
What is law enforcement? (police)
100
This approach to crime control seeks to prevent
What is deterence?
100
A serial killer that terrorized London's east end in the 1880's
Who is Jack the Ripper?
100
Just as norms differ across cultures, so do this formal norms
What are laws?
200
This type of deviance is enforced with laws and formal sanctions
What is crime?
200
This aspect of the criminal justice system is responsible for convicting and sentencing of criminals
What are the courts?
200
This approach to crime control is focused on punishing on behalf of the victims
What is retribution?
200
This teenager from NB commited suicide while institutionalized in an Ontario prison
Who is Ashley Smith?
200
Crimes commited by the upper class, business elite are reffered to by this colourful term
What is white-collar crime?
300
speeding or littering are indeed against the law, but rather than criminal offences they are...
What are quasi-criminal offences?
300
This aspect of the criminal justice system deals with incarceration and arguably rehabilition
What is corrections?
300
This approach to crime control can be punitive, but also seeks to protect the rest of society from dangerous individuals
What is incarceration?
300
This journalist and sociologist took a job as a correctional officer in Sing Sing prison in order to write about the goings on there
Who is Ted Conover?
300
This is a program in New Brunswick that offers a constructive way to deal with non-violent, low risk adult offenders, who accept responsibility for their crimes
What is Alternative Measures?
400
This refers to repitition of or return to criminal behaviour
What is recidivism?
400
This aspect of the criminal justice system deals with monitoring parolees and people on probation
What is corrections?
400
This aspect of crime control aims to help criminals so they are no longer turned to commiting crimes
What is rehabilition?
400
According to this sociologist, crime has existed in every society ever known
Who is Emile Durkheim?
400
The FBI collects and compiles crime statistics in this
What is the unified crime report?
500
some might argue that personal drug use or jaywalking, for example, are these types of crimes
What are victimless crimes?
500
This aspect of the criminal justice system is responsible for compiling statistics on crime
What is law enforcement?
500
Capital punishment is an example of this approach to crime control
What is retribution?
500
This British PM once famously claimed there was "no such thing as society"
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
500
this sociological term associated with labelling has hindered the rehabilition and reintergration of many ex-cons into society
What is stigma?
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