CJUS-P200 exam 1 || with Errorless Answers.
What is a crime?
criminological versus legalistic approach correct answers criminological: Violations of social
norms
Folkways, mores, laws
Relativity of crime and deviance
legalistic: Any culpable action or inaction prohibited by law and punishable by the state as a
misdemeanor or felony.
Issues related to legalistic definition correct answers Culpability and legal defense (acts reus
(illegal act occurred) & mens rea (guilty mind))
Crime distinctions (e.g. felonies and misdemeanors)
Mala in se (evil) vs mala prohibita (societally wrong)
3 common sources of criminological data correct answers UCR, NCVS, Self-report studies
(NYS, Monitoring the future)
Types of UCR crimes and their classification correct answers Part I:Criminal homicide
Forcible rape
Robbery
With a weapon
Aggravated assault
Burglary
Larceny theft
Motor vehicle theft
Arson
,Part II: white collar crimes, disorderly
what types of crimes are in the UCR correct answers violent crime, robbery, aggravated assault,
property crimes
What is the UCR measuring/not measuring correct answers all crimes reported to the police. The
police send it to the FBI
How is the NCVS collected and who are the respondents correct answers National crime
victimization survey (mostly part 1 offenses)
how many people ultimately commit crimes that AREN'T known to police
Gave a better estimate of the "dark figure of crime"
The number of crimes that never make it into the reports
Conducted by the DOJ
Victims report in a survey if they've been a victim of a crime
NCVS: which crime are excluded correct answers homicide
What is the dark figure of crime? correct answers the amount of unreported or undiscovered
crime
Self-report studies what types of crime do they typically measure correct answers Collected by
anyone, and can include any types of crime in self-reports but its hard to collect EVERY type of
crime.
Expensive
We can include all potential causes of crime
, Convenience vs. Random/probability sample correct answers Convenience: Facebook study
(only people who have opportunity and have facebook)
Stood outside walmart and gave survey about drinking alcohol
Random/probability:Email every single student on campus and then everybody has a chance to
be selected to complete the survey
Prevalence vs. Incidence correct answers Prevalence of pot smoking on IU: what percentage of
the students at IU smoke pot
Incidence of pot smoking on IU: how frequent they do it
what are the key differences between quantitative vs qualitative methods for studying crime?
correct answers qualitative research generates "textual data" (non-numerical). Quantitative
research, on the contrary, produces "numerical data" or information that can be converted into
numbers.
Deductive vs inductive research correct answers inductive: specific to general
deductive general to specific
what is a fact? correct answers Empirical "existence" statement; "true" by observation (but
contingent)
what is the differences between definitions, facts, theories and hypotheses? correct answers
Definitions: Statement of a concept's meaning; "true" by definition(but arbitrary)
Facts: observations about the world around us, Empirical "existence" statement; "true" by
observation (but contingent)
What is a crime?
criminological versus legalistic approach correct answers criminological: Violations of social
norms
Folkways, mores, laws
Relativity of crime and deviance
legalistic: Any culpable action or inaction prohibited by law and punishable by the state as a
misdemeanor or felony.
Issues related to legalistic definition correct answers Culpability and legal defense (acts reus
(illegal act occurred) & mens rea (guilty mind))
Crime distinctions (e.g. felonies and misdemeanors)
Mala in se (evil) vs mala prohibita (societally wrong)
3 common sources of criminological data correct answers UCR, NCVS, Self-report studies
(NYS, Monitoring the future)
Types of UCR crimes and their classification correct answers Part I:Criminal homicide
Forcible rape
Robbery
With a weapon
Aggravated assault
Burglary
Larceny theft
Motor vehicle theft
Arson
,Part II: white collar crimes, disorderly
what types of crimes are in the UCR correct answers violent crime, robbery, aggravated assault,
property crimes
What is the UCR measuring/not measuring correct answers all crimes reported to the police. The
police send it to the FBI
How is the NCVS collected and who are the respondents correct answers National crime
victimization survey (mostly part 1 offenses)
how many people ultimately commit crimes that AREN'T known to police
Gave a better estimate of the "dark figure of crime"
The number of crimes that never make it into the reports
Conducted by the DOJ
Victims report in a survey if they've been a victim of a crime
NCVS: which crime are excluded correct answers homicide
What is the dark figure of crime? correct answers the amount of unreported or undiscovered
crime
Self-report studies what types of crime do they typically measure correct answers Collected by
anyone, and can include any types of crime in self-reports but its hard to collect EVERY type of
crime.
Expensive
We can include all potential causes of crime
, Convenience vs. Random/probability sample correct answers Convenience: Facebook study
(only people who have opportunity and have facebook)
Stood outside walmart and gave survey about drinking alcohol
Random/probability:Email every single student on campus and then everybody has a chance to
be selected to complete the survey
Prevalence vs. Incidence correct answers Prevalence of pot smoking on IU: what percentage of
the students at IU smoke pot
Incidence of pot smoking on IU: how frequent they do it
what are the key differences between quantitative vs qualitative methods for studying crime?
correct answers qualitative research generates "textual data" (non-numerical). Quantitative
research, on the contrary, produces "numerical data" or information that can be converted into
numbers.
Deductive vs inductive research correct answers inductive: specific to general
deductive general to specific
what is a fact? correct answers Empirical "existence" statement; "true" by observation (but
contingent)
what is the differences between definitions, facts, theories and hypotheses? correct answers
Definitions: Statement of a concept's meaning; "true" by definition(but arbitrary)
Facts: observations about the world around us, Empirical "existence" statement; "true" by
observation (but contingent)
