Crime and Criminology
The scientific study of crime, criminals, and criminal justice system.
What is criminology
African Americans (mostly men) experiences after contact with the criminal justice system are disproportionality impacted and stigmatized.
What is the New Jim Crow
The factors that can cause an area to have higher crime rates.
What is the lack of resources such as jobs, after school child care, and good schools.
The peak age of people that would most likely commit a crime.
What is 19.
A type of deviance that breaks a norm that is embedded or classified into law
What is Crime
Hypothesis that states that Black Americans are exposed to more higher rates of crime due to one major condition.
What is living in lower-income communities with limited resources? (ie class matters more than race)
A crime that is committed by a person of respectability and high status in their job.
What is white collar crime.
The gender that commits the most crimes.
What are men
A crime that is mostly committed by a friend or relative as opposed to a stranger.
What is murder.
Research done by Pager and Pager focusing on stigma and criminal records of black and whites.
What is the outcome of how black applicants with no record will not get a job call back in comparison to white applicants with a criminal record.
This type of crime is done by those who have privilege and is less punished and policed in comparison to street crime.
What is white collar crime
The now debunked hypothesis that researchers claimed as to why there are differing rates of crimes committed between men and women.
What is the claim that women were too weak, passive or unintelligent to commit crimes.
(reality?)
The type of crime that has been declining significantly over the last decade.
What is violent crime.
The researcher who coined the theory The New Jim Crow"
Michelle Alexander
Elizabeth Homes ran this company illegally.
What is the founder and CEO of the company Theranos, who claimed to create a blood testing machine that could run hundreds of tests, and ended up defrauding the public and investors and went to prison for 11 years.
The reason that criminologists claim as to the reason for lower rates of crime by women proposed in the 1970s and that reason for increased crime rates of women now.
What is lower status in power historically and with the rise of women gaining more power in workplace will also increase and match crime rates of men.