Crimes of Violence
The use of force exercised without excuse or justification to achieve a goal at the expense of a victim.
What is Violent Crime
The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft.
What is Burglary
A chronic disease condition marked by a progressive incapacity to control alcohol consumption despite psychological, social, or physiological disruptions.
What is Alcoholism
Crime committed by individuals in the course of their employment.
What is Occupational Crime
Theory: Visible signs of crime, anti-social behavior, and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder
What is Broken Windows Theory
The willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another.
What is Murder
A type of breaking and entering into a residential home in which the express purpose is to catch occupants at home so that criminals can rob, rape, or assault the occupants as well as steal their property.
What is Home Invasion
A process involving a number of adverse physical reactions that occur when the body of a drug abuser is deprived of his or her drugs.
What is Withdrawal
Criminal activity on behalf of a business organization.
What is Corporate Crime
Name at LEAST two of the five Techniques of Neutralization
What is
1. Denial of Responsibility
2. Denial of Injury
3. Blaming the victim
4. Condemning the condemners
5. Appealing to a higher loyalty.
The killing of several people at one location within minutes or hours.
What is Mass Murder
The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle from its occupant by force or threat of force.
What is Carjacking
The provision of sexual services in exchange for money or other tangible reward as the primary source of income.
What is Prostitution
An illegal act or series of illegal acts committed by nonphysical means and by concealment or guile to obtain money or property or to obtain a business or personal advantage.
What is White-Collar Crime
Name all four of the "Turning Points" which cause someone to desist from crime.
What is
1. Marriage
2. Military Service
3. Employment
4. Prison
An unintentional homicide charged when a death or deaths arise from some negligent act that carries a substantial risk of death to others.
What is Negligent Manslaughter
The misappropriation or misapplication of money or property entrusted to the person's care, custody, or control.
What is Embezzlement
The tendency to require larger and larger doses of a drug to produce the same effects after the body adjusts to lower dosages.
What is Tolerance
A person who illicitly accesses someone else’s computer system.
What is Hacker
What are the two main pathways to offending according to Moffitt's Dual Pathway Development Theory?
What is Life Course Persistent Offenders and Adolescent-Limited Offenders
Name at least two types of serial killers out of the four classifications that exist
What is Visionary, Mission Oriented, Hedonistic, or Power/Control Serial Killers
The creation or alteration of documents to give them the appearance of legality and validity with the intention of gaining some fraudulent benefit from doing so.
What is Forgery
What is the term/policy that was created which blamed drugs for all of the problems in the United States and cracked down on punishing drug users/suppliers.
A wide variety of crimes committed with computer technology.
What is Cybercrime
What is the only kind of bird that has the ability to fly backwards?
What is Hummingbird