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100
This term refers to an act that violates criminal law and is punishable by criminal sanctions.
What is a crime?
100
According to this theory, individuals are restrained from offending because of their relationships with others such as parents or peers.
What is control theory?
100
This is the term for the proof of guilt standard in criminal cases.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
100
The penalty for this type of noncriminal offense is a fine rather than incarceration.
What is an infraction?
100
This crime model assumes that a diverse group of people can share the same morals.
What is the consensus model?
200
This term is used to describe the actual amount of crime that takes place.
What is the dark figure of crime?
200
According to this model of drug addiction, abusers and addicts endanger society with their behavior and should be treated like any other criminals.
What is the criminal model?
200
This type of law refers to the rules, orders, and decisions of regulatory agencies.
What is administrative law?
200
This type of institution houses inmates convicted of minor crime with relatively short sentences, as well as those awaiting trial or transfer.
What is a jail?
200
This term refers to a sharing of government powers by federal and state authorities.
What is federalism?
300
This terms refers to researchers who study the causes of crime.
What are criminologists?
300
According to this theory, people adapt the values of the subculture to which they belong.
What is cultural deviance?
300
This is one of the social functions of the law.
What is teach societal boundaries or express pubic morality?
300
This institution houses those convicted of more serious crime with longer sentences.
What is a prison?
300
Name one of three factors used by criminologists to explain changes in the nation's crime rate.
What is incarceration rate, size of youth population, and the economy?
400
This is the act of taking property from another person through force, threat of force, or intimidation.
What is robbery?
400
According to this theory, crime is a result of poor neighborhood conditions.
What is social disorganization?
400
This type of law is concerned with the rights and duties between individuals.
What is civil law?
400
This is a type of crime punishable by a fine or by confinement up to a year.
What is a misdemeanor?
400
The bulk of police officers are employed at this level.
What is the state level?
500
This category of offenses includes all crimes recorded by the FBI that do not fall into Part I offenses.
What is Part II?
500
According to this theory by Gottfredson and Hirschi, poor parenting is the cause of all crime in society.
What is self-control?
500
This is the burden of proof standard necessary to win a civil trail.
What is the preponderance of evidence?
500
This term refers to an act that would be wrong even if no law prohibited it.
What is male in se?
500
This term means that the guilty act and the guilty intent occur together.
What is concurrence?