Intro to CRIM
The scientific study of the nature, extent, cause, and control of criminal behavior
What is criminology
The primary source of official crimes stats in the U.S. is
What is official data - the UCR (Uniform Crime Reports) and/or NIBRS (National Incidence Based Reporting System)
These are the three views noted in class about how we understand the concept of crime
What is consensus, class conflict, and pluralist/group conflict view
This theory explains how criminal behavior is the result of learning, where an individual learns pro-criminal attitudes, motives, and techniques outweighing anti-criminal ones.
What is differential association theory (DAT)
Behavior that is outside the range of what is expected
What is deviance
Behaviors that are "inherently bad" when speaking about a crime
What is mala in se
This is the hierarchy rule in reporting crimes in the UCR
What is reporting only the most serious offense when multiple offenses occur in a single incident
Crime reflects the values, beliefs, and opinions of society Law defines crime Agreement exists on outlawed behavior Laws apply to all citizens equally
What is Consensus View of Crime/Model of Law
The sociological term for a state of normlessness, a breakdown of social standards, and a resulting feeling of disconnection and uncertainty that can lead to increased deviance
What is anomie
This term describes a group a behaviors that are criminal/wrong only because they are prohibited by law (such as speeding or failing to register a vehicle)
What is mala prohibita
This is a major difference between criminal justice and criminology
What is criminal justice is primarily concerned with agencies of social control while criminology deals with the origin, extent, and nature of crime in society
The dark figure of crime
What is the portion of the total crimes committed each year that never come to light
The level of analysis of a theory that addresses questions about differences across societies or major groups
What is macro-level
Theses are the modes of adaptations in response to strain according to Merton
What is conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion
This serious violent criminal offense has high report and clearance rates, is rare, and if not included in the NCVS
The four Part I Index violent offenses
What are aggravated assault, forcible rape, robbery and homicide
This type method is generally used to study hard to study groups
What is qualitative
Latent functions of crime and law (could be more than one answer)
What is provide jobs, creates "in and out" groups, etc.
The three elements of routine activities theory
What are suitable targets, absence/presence of a capable guardians, and motivated offender
A statistical measurement of the degree of relationship between two or more variables, indicating their tendency to change/move together in predictable ways
What is correlation
The four Part 1 Index property offenses
What are larceny-theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson
This type of number is calculated by dividing the number of reported crimes committed in a state by the population of the state and multiply by a standard number (example: 100,000).
What is a crime rate
In a Gesellschaft society, law serves this purpose
What is to promote social control
Amplified deviance explained by the labeling process - application and internalization of the label
What is secondary deviance
Two ways that NIBRS differs from the UCR
What is NIBRS tracks more crime, more information about the arrest in each incident, info reported to the police about the incident, requires officers to report multiple offenses, provides more information on victims and offenders compared to the UCR