SOCL 2301 Exam 2 2025/2026 Exam
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What is one of the most important characteristics of crime? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔how often it is committed
From such data we can determine the ______, the increases and
decreases of crime over time. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔crime trends
To fully understand crime, its genesis and development must be studied
within the context of the nation's ___. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔history
Violent crime, especially homicide, tend to be the focus of trend studies
because they: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-have reliable data
,-occur in all times and places
-occur often enough to allow for statistical analysis
-homicide has a universal definition
The historical forces that shaped contemporary America began to fall into
place about 135 years ago in the 1880s when:
The U.S. developed an ___ economy.
Formed great ___ centers.
Receive massive influxes of ____.
First experienced massive migrations of ______ from the south to other
regions of the country. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔industrial
metropolitan
immigrants
African Americans
Going back that far to study crime gives us what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔different
perspectives on its causes
___ becomes an important variable to consider. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔culture
(black/white, Irish/Germans)
,Both ___ and ____ southerners had high rates of interpersonal violence - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔white and black
Black: slavery, jim crow laws, outrage, and violence for lack of status and
treatment
White: areas of south became populated with Scottish/Irish people who
came from places where they settle arguments violently
U.S. history also raises doubt about the role of ___ in crime.
It also tells us that ____ downturns and upswings are *inconsistently*
related to violent crime. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cities
economic
The Great American Crime Decline
The usual suspects? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔imprisonment
demography
economy
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, Imprisonment: After 1973, the rate of imprisonenment in the U.S. ____
more than ____ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔expands
threefold
Why did imprisonment increase? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Wanted to increase
penalties on crime; time to "get tough on crime"
Imprisonment Hypothesis? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Incapacitation: More people
go to jail, makes more people scared there gonna go to jail
general detterence: If we make penalties harsher, it's causing an inability to
cause crimes
What were the findings for imprisonment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-general
deterrence is almost impossible to measure.
-We should acknowledge that incapacitation does reduce crime (not much
though)
-the impact is a reduction between 10 and 27%.
Demography (Age in Crime):
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What is one of the most important characteristics of crime? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔how often it is committed
From such data we can determine the ______, the increases and
decreases of crime over time. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔crime trends
To fully understand crime, its genesis and development must be studied
within the context of the nation's ___. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔history
Violent crime, especially homicide, tend to be the focus of trend studies
because they: - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-have reliable data
,-occur in all times and places
-occur often enough to allow for statistical analysis
-homicide has a universal definition
The historical forces that shaped contemporary America began to fall into
place about 135 years ago in the 1880s when:
The U.S. developed an ___ economy.
Formed great ___ centers.
Receive massive influxes of ____.
First experienced massive migrations of ______ from the south to other
regions of the country. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔industrial
metropolitan
immigrants
African Americans
Going back that far to study crime gives us what? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔different
perspectives on its causes
___ becomes an important variable to consider. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔culture
(black/white, Irish/Germans)
,Both ___ and ____ southerners had high rates of interpersonal violence - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔white and black
Black: slavery, jim crow laws, outrage, and violence for lack of status and
treatment
White: areas of south became populated with Scottish/Irish people who
came from places where they settle arguments violently
U.S. history also raises doubt about the role of ___ in crime.
It also tells us that ____ downturns and upswings are *inconsistently*
related to violent crime. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔cities
economic
The Great American Crime Decline
The usual suspects? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔imprisonment
demography
economy
COPYRIGHT©PROFFKERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE.
PRIVACY STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, Imprisonment: After 1973, the rate of imprisonenment in the U.S. ____
more than ____ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔expands
threefold
Why did imprisonment increase? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Wanted to increase
penalties on crime; time to "get tough on crime"
Imprisonment Hypothesis? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Incapacitation: More people
go to jail, makes more people scared there gonna go to jail
general detterence: If we make penalties harsher, it's causing an inability to
cause crimes
What were the findings for imprisonment? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-general
deterrence is almost impossible to measure.
-We should acknowledge that incapacitation does reduce crime (not much
though)
-the impact is a reduction between 10 and 27%.
Demography (Age in Crime):
