Week 1
A formal written enactment of a legislative body
What is a statute?
The two determinants of human behavior.
What are pain and pleasure?
The interaction between and among social institutions, groups, and individuals is known as.
What is Social Process?
A criminal offense in which the motive is hatred, bias, or prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation of another individual or group of individuals is known as a...
What is a hate crime?
What is the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation?
What is cyber threat?
The four perspectives how crime is viewed.
What is legalistic, political, sociological, psychological?
An act that is thought to be wrong in and of itself is known as...
What is Mala in se?
A concept that compares society to a physical organism and that sees criminality as an illness is known as...
What is Social Pathology?
The process of converting illegally earned assets from cash to one or more alternative forms to conceal factors such as illegal origin and true ownership is known as...
What is money laundering?
A person who uses computers for exploration and exploitation.
What is a Hacker?
The first need on Maslow's Hierarchy of needs.
What are Physiological needs?
An act that is wrong only because it is prohibited is known as...
What is Mala prohibita?
What theory states delinquency is transmitted to new generations in the same way that languages, roles, and attitudes are?
What is the cultural transmissions theory?
What Amendment prohibited the sales of alcohol?
What is the 18th Amendment?
A test of scientific acceptability applicable to the gathering of evidence in criminal cases.
What is the Daubert Standard?
An interdisciplinary profession built around the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior, including their forms, causes, legal aspects, and control is known as what.
What is criminology?
GBMI stands for...
What is Guilty, but Mentally Ill?
What theory states neighborhood physical deterioration leads to increased delinquency, vandalism, and crime?
What is the Broken Windows Theory?
Barbiturates, sedatives, and tranquilizers are known as...
What are depressants?
The unauthorized and illegal copying of software programs.
What is Software Piracy?
A contribution made by the victim to the criminal event, especially one that led to its initiation is known as..
What is victim precipitation?
The 5 Goals of Criminal Sanctions.
What is retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation, and restoration?
What are Howard Becker's three typologies of delinquents?
What are the pure deviant, the falsely accused deviant, and the secret deviant?
The 7 categories of controlled substances.
What are stimulants, depressants, cannabis, narcotics, hallucinogens, anabolic steroids, and inhalants?
Hackers with a sense of fun, with no intention to harm, are referred to as...
What are Scamps?