The law
This is the Latin word for "it stands decided" and refers to a system of legal precedent.
What is stare decisis?
This theory emphasizes that people have freewill.
What is rational choice theory?
This Part I offense is the most under-reported violent crime.
What is rape/sexual assault?
Offender surveys reach a sample of respondents in this type of institution.
What are prisons?
This object represents the fact that most cases of crime known to police are never fully processed in the criminal justice to the point where a punishment is given.
What is a funnel?
These are less serious crimes punishable by less than a year in jail.
What are misdemeanors?
This theory suggests that elements of the environment interact with biological factors.
Whta is biosocial theory?
This agency collects crime data from state and local police departments.
What is the FBI?
According to the NCVS (and the UCR), people of this gender commit the most crimes.
What is male?
A wedding cake is one way to visualize the types of cases in the criminal justice system and was developed by criminologist Samuel Walker. This type of case is the top layer of the cake.
What are celebrated cases?
How many "tables" had Roman law written on them in 449 BC?
What is 12?
The work of Karl Marx underlines this theory's perspective.
What is social conflict theory?
This crime is highly reported or known to police.
What is murder (or motor vehicle theft)?
This national survey asks high school students about criminal behavior and drug use.
What is Monitoring the Future?
This object was used to visualize the "dark figure of crime.
What is an ice berg
This book from the 1480s describes how to exorcise demons from wrong-doers' bodies.
What is the Mallus Maleficarum?
This theory comes to mind if a researcher is interested in the influence on family on crime.
What is social process theory? [Will also accept what is social bonding theory?]
This rule states that the UCR only collects information about the most serious offense in a given crime event.
This is the name of the problem with the National Victimization Survey (NCVS) when or if the respondents do not represent the nation as a whole.
Sampling error
This is the direction violent crime is going in the last few years in the US.
What is up?
The Magna Carta as an agreement between Lords and the King on the rights of landowning males in 1215 AD. Which King of England signed the document?
King John
This theory comes to mind if a criminologist is interested in neighborhood-level rates of unemployment, poverty, substandard housing, and poor educational opportunities.
What is social structure theory?
This is the denominator in rates of crime as reported in the UCR. It is also what comes after "per _____."
What is 100,000?
This is the approximate sample size of head of households interviewed about crime victimization in the NCVS every 3 years.
What is 90,000 (or 95,000, or 95,760 per the textbook)
This visualization of the system emphasizes several decision points as cases flow through the system.
What is the assembly line?