Problem with Crime
Many Americans consider this to be a big problem today.
What is crime?
Harming someone through physical contact, as with a weapon or your body.
What is battery?
Take something of value from another person by force or by threat of violence
What is robbery?
An unhappy family life can make a person much more likely to break laws.
What is poor parenting?
This feeling causes people to put extra locks on their doors and may not go out at night.
What is afraid or suspicious?
Stealing money that has been entrusted into one's care
What is embezzlement?
Acts that primarily hurt the people who commit them.
What is victimless crime?
When people cannot earn enough money to support themselves and their families, they may feel that society does not work well for them.
What is poverty?
This type of area typically has more crime than others.
What is urban?
Crimes in which people or groups of people use, or say they will use, violence in order to get what they want from the government or society
What is terrorism?
Taking anything of value that belongs to another person without using violence
What is larceny?
The more violence people see, the more desensitized they become to violence.
What is Violence in Media?
This many violent crimes occur each year in America.
What is 1,000,000?
Betraying one's country by helping its enemies or by making war against it
What is treason?
Nonviolent crimes by office workers for personal or business gain.
What is white collar crime?
People suffering from this sometimes commit crimes in an irrational moment.
What is mental illness?
This state has a homicide rate of 23.7. (#1 in America)
What is Mississippi?
The act of breaking into a building with plans to do something illegal
What is burglary?
Acts that threaten, hurt, or end a person's life.
What is crimes against people (violent crimes)?
Criminals who do go to prison are given parole too soon and that they will continue to commit crimes.
What are permissive courts?