Basics
An action that violates a formalized law.
What is Crime?
A set of theories that relates crimes committed to hormones.
What are Hormonal Theories?
A theory that explains how society changes and crime happens due to Strain.
What is Strain Theory?
The most common violent crime.
What is assault?
Crime committed by the business itself
What is cooperate crime?
Folkways, Mores, and Laws are examples of this.
What are Norms?
Looks at how Geographical Features in a location affect crime.
What is Environmental Criminology?
A system of law that relies on the idea of "an eye for an eye".
What is Hammurabi's code?
Crime committed in a place of employment.
What is white collar crime?
This type of crime focuses on violence or the threat of violence toward another person.
What is Crimes against persons?
A behavior that violates a social norm.
What is Deviance?
A system of law which United States law is based on.
What is English Common Law?
Explains crime and delinquency by examining the breakdown of social institutions and relationships within a community and how it is able to maintain social controls
What is social disorganization theory?
Person Planned to kill someone and did it.
What is 1st degree murder?
When a company markets product they know to be unsafe.
What is unsafe trade?
A legal defense that relies on the claim that the defendant lacked the mental capacity to understand that what they were doing was wrong while they were committing the act.
What is Insanity?
A theory that explains why some people have more access to illegal opportunities than others.
What is differential Opportunity Theory?
A set of theories of crime that explains crime as related to genetics, body types, and physical attributes.
What are constitutional Theories?
The purposeful and willful burning of something.
What is Arson?
What is organized crime?
The two things that are required for an act to be considered a crime.
What are Actus Reus and Actus Rea?
A set of theories focused on things like brain injuries, vitamin deficiencies, and other biological factors for committing crime.
What are biological theories?
This theory suggests that law is one part of the struggle between those who have power, and those who do not
What is Conflict Theory?
The theft or misuse of company funds
What is embezzlement?
Homicide that is committed during an intense emotion like anger or fear
What is Voluntary homicide?