Chapter 1
Behaviors that violate norms and arouse negative social reactions.
What is deviance?
The primary source of US crime statistics is the.
What is the Uniform Crime Report?
While they are least likely to be victims of crime, this age group has a high fear of crime.
Who are the elderly?
Places that are high crime locations.
What are hot spots?
The study of crime and criminal justice.
What is criminology?
According to the NCVS, 75% of offenders are considered to be this group.
What are strangers?
Media overreporting of crime tends to focus on this type of crime (if it bleeds, it leads).
What is homicide?
or
What is murder?
What is routine activities theory?
This theorist described the crime as a normal part of a healthy society.
Who is Durkheim?
This percentage of youths is arrested annually for violent crime.
What is 1%?
This reporting system will eventually replace the UCR.
What is the NIBRS?
The study of victims.
What is victimology?
Situations where a crime is committed because law enforcement agents induced the offender to do so.
What is entrapment?
This racial group tends to have a more negative view of police.
Who are African Americans?
or
Who are black individuals?
This perspective stresses that people are social beings more than mere individuals.
What is the sociological perspective?