SOCL 4461 EXAM 1QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What's the difference between crime and deviance? - answer -the law
Rules that every society has - answer -norms
Acts that are formally punished by the state - answer -crimes
Any violation is an act of - answer -deviance
3 parts of criminology according to sutherland - answer -lawmaking, law breaking,
social response to law breaking
Why did this law come into being is a question of...? - answer -lawmaking
Law breaking involves what 2 things? - answer -the documentation of different kinds of
crime
Explanations of why crime happens and why crime changes
Census model of law: much of lawmaking comes out of...? - answer -group conflict
Laws are made solely based on...? - answer -who has more power at any given time
2 or more groups fighting it out over some issue (ex: gun control) - answer -group
conflict
Society's formal response to lawbreaking - answer -the entire criminal justice system
A person who engages in the scientific study of crime with emphasis on establishing
relationships between major social variables - answer -criminologist
Something that changes - answer -variable
Examples of variables - answer -income level, temperature, age, race, gender, crime
rates
Criminologists explain... - answer -variation
The process of establishing a relationship or connection between two or more measures
- answer -correlation
If one's up, the other goes up, if one's down, the other goes down - answer -positive
correlation
If one goes up, the other goes down and vice versa - answer -negative correlation
,If you can't tell the difference between one or the other//no relationship between the two
- answer -zero correlation
An explanation about how 2 or more variables are related to each other - answer -
theory
We never let our -- do our thinking for us - answer -statistics
We always -- theories - answer -disprove
Always have to have a falsification method, must falsify it, knock it down - answer -
theory
Have to test them - answer -theories
The most complex and widely supported theory - answer -evolution
Is faith a theory?
Is gravity? - answer -faith - no
Gravity - yes
We use these in social sciences because were cannot run experiments, we have to
observe the social world the way it is (can't experiment on the world) - answer -
statistics
Where do we get all this data from? - answer -official statistics
Unofficial statistics
Official data that we get from some official law enforcement agency - answer -official
statistics
Main source for official statistics - answer -uniform crime reports (ucr)
Local law enforcement agencies send all their info. To the fbi and they put it all in one
report. Most participate but not all. - answer -ucr
Crimes known to the police - answer -ucr
Main source of unofficial data/info. - answer -national crime victimization survey (ncvs)
Looks at victims instead of offenders. Looking at crime from a victimization standpoint. -
answer -ncvs
Advantages/disadvantages of ncvs - answer -adv. - you get lots of detail about the
cases unlike in the ucr
, Dis. - you cannot generalize to the population
Someone who buys and sells stolen property - answer -fence
A book about a fence named sam - answer -a fence in the shadow of two worlds
When your sample does not accurately match your target population of interest -
answer -sample bias
Head of the fbi in 1924 - answer -j. Edgar hoover
He wanted to make the fbi responsible for gathering national statistics on crime. (ucr) -
answer -j. Edgar hoover
He would gather info. On legislatures to use against them to ask for help on upcoming
legislations. - answer -j. Edgar hoover
The longest running source of information on crimes we have in america - answer -ucr
What year was the ucr created? - answer -1930
How many categories are there in the ucr? - answer -29
What are the 7 index crimes? - answer -murder
Robbery
Rape
Aggravated assault
Burglary
Larceny/theft
Auto theft
Other names for index crimes - answer -part one offenses
The serious crimes
Index crimes are separated into 2 categories - answer -violent crimes
Property crimes
Crimes against persons - answer -violent crimes
Crimes against property - answer -property crimes
List the violent crimes - answer -murder
Robbery
Rape
Aggravated assault
What's the difference between crime and deviance? - answer -the law
Rules that every society has - answer -norms
Acts that are formally punished by the state - answer -crimes
Any violation is an act of - answer -deviance
3 parts of criminology according to sutherland - answer -lawmaking, law breaking,
social response to law breaking
Why did this law come into being is a question of...? - answer -lawmaking
Law breaking involves what 2 things? - answer -the documentation of different kinds of
crime
Explanations of why crime happens and why crime changes
Census model of law: much of lawmaking comes out of...? - answer -group conflict
Laws are made solely based on...? - answer -who has more power at any given time
2 or more groups fighting it out over some issue (ex: gun control) - answer -group
conflict
Society's formal response to lawbreaking - answer -the entire criminal justice system
A person who engages in the scientific study of crime with emphasis on establishing
relationships between major social variables - answer -criminologist
Something that changes - answer -variable
Examples of variables - answer -income level, temperature, age, race, gender, crime
rates
Criminologists explain... - answer -variation
The process of establishing a relationship or connection between two or more measures
- answer -correlation
If one's up, the other goes up, if one's down, the other goes down - answer -positive
correlation
If one goes up, the other goes down and vice versa - answer -negative correlation
,If you can't tell the difference between one or the other//no relationship between the two
- answer -zero correlation
An explanation about how 2 or more variables are related to each other - answer -
theory
We never let our -- do our thinking for us - answer -statistics
We always -- theories - answer -disprove
Always have to have a falsification method, must falsify it, knock it down - answer -
theory
Have to test them - answer -theories
The most complex and widely supported theory - answer -evolution
Is faith a theory?
Is gravity? - answer -faith - no
Gravity - yes
We use these in social sciences because were cannot run experiments, we have to
observe the social world the way it is (can't experiment on the world) - answer -
statistics
Where do we get all this data from? - answer -official statistics
Unofficial statistics
Official data that we get from some official law enforcement agency - answer -official
statistics
Main source for official statistics - answer -uniform crime reports (ucr)
Local law enforcement agencies send all their info. To the fbi and they put it all in one
report. Most participate but not all. - answer -ucr
Crimes known to the police - answer -ucr
Main source of unofficial data/info. - answer -national crime victimization survey (ncvs)
Looks at victims instead of offenders. Looking at crime from a victimization standpoint. -
answer -ncvs
Advantages/disadvantages of ncvs - answer -adv. - you get lots of detail about the
cases unlike in the ucr
, Dis. - you cannot generalize to the population
Someone who buys and sells stolen property - answer -fence
A book about a fence named sam - answer -a fence in the shadow of two worlds
When your sample does not accurately match your target population of interest -
answer -sample bias
Head of the fbi in 1924 - answer -j. Edgar hoover
He wanted to make the fbi responsible for gathering national statistics on crime. (ucr) -
answer -j. Edgar hoover
He would gather info. On legislatures to use against them to ask for help on upcoming
legislations. - answer -j. Edgar hoover
The longest running source of information on crimes we have in america - answer -ucr
What year was the ucr created? - answer -1930
How many categories are there in the ucr? - answer -29
What are the 7 index crimes? - answer -murder
Robbery
Rape
Aggravated assault
Burglary
Larceny/theft
Auto theft
Other names for index crimes - answer -part one offenses
The serious crimes
Index crimes are separated into 2 categories - answer -violent crimes
Property crimes
Crimes against persons - answer -violent crimes
Crimes against property - answer -property crimes
List the violent crimes - answer -murder
Robbery
Rape
Aggravated assault
