Chapter 1
Refers to the classification of humans into populations or groups based on various factors such as culture, language, social practice, or heritable characteristics.
Race
The merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups.
Assimilation
A criminal offense motivated by hatred of a specific race/ethnicity/religion/sexual orientation.
Hate Crime
Hate crime is more likely to involve crimes against property than crimes against the person.
True or false
False
A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomenon.
Theory
Used in social science to describe a racial monitory group that has excelled in the USA, despite prejudice and discrimination. This stereotype as a become synonymous with the Asian American population.
Model Minority
The branch of the office of justice programs within the US Department of Justice that promotes the collection and analysis of crime data in states and territory.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The crime reporting system intended eventually to replace the UCR, collects detailed data on the offender, time, place and other aspects of the incident for each criminal offense reported by PD agencies and participating agencies.
National Incident-Based Reporting Systems (NIBRS)
The UCR uses population estimates to calculate crime and _________.
arrest rates
Who is the father of Criminology
Ceasar Lombroso
This case resulted in the law "separate but equal"
Plessy vs Furgeson
A crime statistics program of the FBI, that has been around since 1930's. Collects summary based information from law enforcement agencies on offenses reported and arrests made as well as more detailed data on HOMICIDE.
Uniform Crime Reporting Program
Laws Formulated by Legislated body governing a particular jurisdiction that are aimed at requiring or prohibiting something.
Statutes
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
A theory that presents an explanation for the high rates of violence among African American adolescents. Contending that economic disadvantage, separation from mainstream society, and racial discrimination encountered by some AA adolescents may lead to antisocial attitudes and violent behavior
Code of the Street
This theory proposes that in every society there are culturally prescribed goals and institutionally accepted means to achieve them.
Strain Theory
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
after the civil war, southern states released inmates to private companies that used them as forced laborers. The system of enforced labor ran from 1865 to 1920.
Convict Lease System
Camps in the US in which Japanese Americans were stationed during WWII, The US internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions.
Relocation Centers
Which type of crime is not part of the National Crime Victimization Survey?
Human Trafficking
A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE IN CRIMINOLOGY THAT HOLDS THE PROPING POLITICAL SOCIAL OR OTHER FORCES IN SOCIETY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR A VARIETY OF SOCIAL ILLS INCLUDING CRIME AND DELINQUENCY
CONFLICT THEORY
Considered by some to be one of the first major sociological criminologist, an American civil rights activist, writer/poet/scholar/historian. Among the founders of the NAACP (national association advancement colored people)
W.E.B. Du boies
During this trial, the defendant pled not guilty and asked the court to suppress DNA evidence because it constituted a warrantless search, while this motion to suppress was denied by the trial court, Case was heard by US Supreme court and found that with probable cause taking and analyzing a cheek swab for DNA is like fingerprinting and photographing.
Maryland vs King
The first major and only federal legislation that banned immigrants specifically based on Nationality
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
This system collects state and local data on incidents of human trafficking?
Human Trafficking reporting system.
A theory used to explain racial disparities in arrests and imprisonment. It examined the relations between majority and minority groups.
Colonial Model
What are the base structures of the r/k selection theory?
Reproduction, Climate and Intelligence