Social Construction & Deviance
This is the study of the making of laws, the breaking of laws, and society's reaction to the breaking of laws
Criminology
The perspective on justice emphasizes deterrence and aims to control offenders using harsh punishments
Crime Control
This crime data collection method relies upon police reports
UCR / NIBRS
He is known as the Father of Policing and Created the Metropolitan Police Act
Sir Robert Peel
True/False: Robbery is a property crime
False
The ability to connect personal troubles with larger social structures is known as
The Sociological Imagination
This perspective on justice utilizes the sociological imagination and views crime as a result of pervasive social inequality
Rehabilitation
What is known as the dark figure of crime?
Rape & Sexual Assault
These were considered the first uniformed police force in the American South
Slave Patrols
This classification of crime is latin for "evil in itself"
Mala en Se
Picking your nose in public or talking loudly in an elevator are examples of which level of social norms?
Folkway
This perspective argues that a guilty party should walk free if their individual liberties are infringed upon
Due Process
The strongest correlation within the field of criminology is the relationship between _________ & crime.
Age
This style of patrol believes that you must aggressively target low-level “quality of life” crimes to prevent serious crime
Broken Windows Policing
Rolling stops, items hanging from the rearview mirror, and window tint are all examples of these which are used when police have suspicion, but no probable cause.
Pretext Stops
This is defined as the classification of the population into human and non-human categories, with “human” being described as evolved and civilized and “non-human” being characterized as savage and predator. It also legitimizes conquest and differential access to resources.
Race
This perspective is most accurately concerned with the differential way the Criminal Justice System treated Brock Turner and Corey Batey
Equal Justice
True/False: The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) includes measures for homicide
False
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is associated with which style of policing?
Problem Oriented Policing
The actual reason for the rise in crime rates in the 1960's is attributed to:
Many argue that there is no racial bias in the CJS since legal factors are the most significant predictor of CJS decision making. BUT, this legal factor often points to racial and class bias when one takes a closer look at how it is obtained
Prior record
Deterrence theory assumes that actors are ___________, the main reason why harsh punishment is not generally shown to be successful
Rational
The Racial Threat Hypothesis
Collecting data on the types and prevalence of drugs being used in your precinct in order to develop response strategies and reallocate resources is an example of this type of intelligence
Strategic
This statistical software used by the police to try to target "hot spots" often creates a self-fulfilling prophecy
COMPSTAT