Measuring Crime
Crimes that are not reported to the police are referred to as what in recording crime data?
The "dark figure"
At what point in the timeline of victimology did it shift from crime against the victim to crime against the state?
Industrial Revolution
Who was Jenna's offender in the child sexual abuse TEDTalk?
Her best friend's father
What is the Fear Response Center of the brain called?
Amygdala
Which theorist hypothesized that rape victims precipitated their own victimization?
Amir
Homicide
The Women's Rights movement was responsible for what in victimology?
The creation of women's shelters and children being victims
True or False: 1 in 10 adults over the age of 60 will be victims of abuse?
True
True or False: The Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis is the part of the brain that controls decision-making and impulse control?
False, it's the prefrontal cortex
Why does Dependency Theory explain Elder abuse?
Dependence, caregiver stress, and risk for abuse increase the older a person gets
True or False: The NCVS includes respondents who are ages 3 and up?
False
The Clery Act mandates that higher education institutions do what?
Publish campus crime statistics
What factors can create the "perfect victim" of elder abuse?
Cognitive changes
less insight that cognitive deficits exist
Harder to be aware if someone is trying to manipulate them
What is the result of compassion fatigue?
Burnout
Suitable target/victim, motivated offender, and absence of supervison
What was one of the explanations for the decrease in the U.S. homicide rates that occurred during the mid-to-late 1990s?
Advances in medical technology and a decrease in domesticity
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. inspired what Act to be enforced in criminal justice?
Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Who is most likely to be an offender in elder abuse? Men or Women?
Women
In the video Broken Places, what can trigger various mental and physical health outcomes?
Toxic Stress: a prolonged and excessive activation of the body's stress response system
Who is considered the "father of victimology," and why was he controversial?
Mendelsohn, believed victims were innocent or guilty of their own victimization
What is one reason the criminal definition of rape has changed over time?
It didn't use to include marital rape
True or False: Amber Hagerman inspired The Missing Children's Act?
False, it was Adam Walsh
Someone the child knows personally (90% of cases, this is the case)
What are the 4 examples used to describe the impacts and ways to cope with vicarious trauma?
Spiritual
Cognitive
Emotional
Physical
What were early victimologists' controversial beliefs about victims?
Targets for certain characteristics
Things like drinking, seductive behavior, revealing clothing, etc., are the reasons for their victimization