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Misc.
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Model that assumes the system's subcomponents work together harmoniously to achieve the social product we call justice.
What is the consensus model?
100
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) obtains its numbers for crime statistics from what?
What is reports to the police?
100
The school of criminology explains criminal behavior by looking at physical characteristics and/or genetic makeup:
What is the biological school?
100
The categories of defenses that our criminal justice system recognizes
Alibi, justification, excuse, and procedural defenses.
100
An offense punishable by incarceration, usually in a state or federal facility, typically one year or more is
What is a felony
200
Conduct in violation of the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or a local jurisdiction for which there is no legally justification or excuse
What is a crime?
200
The term used to describe crimes that occur but are not reported to the police.
What is the dark figure of crime?
200
An eighteenth-century approach to crime causation and criminal responsibility that emphasizes free will and reasonable punishments
What is the Classical School?
200
Guilty mind vs. guilty act
Mens rea vs actus reus
200
Clearances are based primarily on:
What are arrests?
300
One or two sentences imposed at the same time, after conviction for more than one offense, and served at the same time
What is a concurrent sentence?
300
List the Part I property crime offenses:
What is burglary, larceny theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson?
300
The three fundamental assumptions of psychological theories
Personality is the major motivational element in individuals; Crime results from inappropriately conditioned behavior, or from abnormal, dysfunctional or inappropriate mental processes; The individual is the primary unit of analysis.
300
What are the three elements of crimes?
Actus reus, mens rea, and the concurrence of the two.
300
The unlawful taking or attempted taking of property that is in immediate possession of another, by force or violence and/or putting the victim in fear, is known as
What is robbery?
400
The principle of fairness vs the principle of procedural fairness.
What is justice vs due process?
400
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) obtains its numbers for crime statistics from what?
What are victim reports?
400
The sociological sub-theory that contends that crime is the consequence of limited opportunities for individuals that society defined as offenders
What is the labeling theory?
400
An offense punishable by incarceration, usually in a local confinement facility, typically one year or less
What is a misdemeanor?
400
The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft is the crime of:
What is burglary?