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______________is considered the founder of Victimology because he coined the term in 1947.
What is Benjamin Mendelson.
An act that goes against the norms of a society but is not a crime because it does not break a law is known as____________________.
What is Deviance.
Putting heavy cement or steel fences or blockades in front of a store or a building is an example of__________________.
What is Target Hardening.
A term used for conventional crimes is..
What is street crimes.
The principle of “an eye for an eye is referred to as..
What is Lex Talionis.
When someone becomes a victim more than once, the term is..
What is polyvictimization or repeat victimization.
Co-victim is another term for..
What is Secondary
Amendment grants the accused the right to avoid self-incrimination or to be tried twice for the same crime.
What is fifth.
The criminologist who developed the theory of Differential Association..
What is Edwin Sutherland.
To whom the crime or trauma occurs are known as..
What is the primary victim.
When someone pretends to be a victim, but no crime actually occurred is known as..
What is false victimization.
The expression “There’s safety in numbers” means
What is those who are part of a group of two or more are less likely to become crime victims.
The interdisciplinary scientific study of victims is referred to as..
What is victimology.
Code of Ur-Nammu is..
What is the first known code of written laws.
System blame is when..
What is when someone looks to society for the reasons for a crime and someone’s victimization
Laws of Manu punishments were determined by..
What is the status of the offender and the victim.
Marvin E. Wolfgang is the..
What is the criminologist most closely associated with the victim-precipitation theory of homicide
An offense prohibited by statute but not inherently evil or wrong is referred to as..
What is Mala prohibita
A Latin phrase meaning wrong or evil in itself
What is Mala in se
Practitioners that go into the field and study specific crime scenes and present their findings in court, are known as..
What is forensic victimology
Melvin Lerner is associated with ______________ theory.
What is Just world hypothesis
Rodney Stark is associated with..
What is the lifestyle exposure theory
Breaking and entering is another term for
What is burglary
Mendelsohn and von Hentig created categories of typical crime victims, categories that are also known by the term..
What is typology
An unlawful attack by one person upon another” is the definition of...
What is assault offenses