Criminal Justice Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CRJ220 Week 5 Quiz - Question and Answers, Latest Verified all answers correct, South University. 1. Which of the following refers to circumstances (e.g., presence of mental illness) surrounding a criminal event that reduce, but do not eliminate, moral responsibility and the severity of punishment imposed: 2. The power to make choices and engage in actions that originate with ourselves is referred to as: 3. Self-defense and defense of others would be considered: 4. Which of the following is theo...

CRJ220 Week 11 Quiz 4 1. Which of the following frameworks encourages us to imagine alternative solutions to moral dilemmas, “focusing less on deciding between given alternatives” and, instead, “envisioning new alternatives” that we may not have initially considered? 2. Traits of character that dispose a person to act in a moral fashion are typically referred to as: 3. When confronted with a moral dilemma, care ethics encourages us to consider: 4. Which of the following is a key Aristote...

CRJ 322 Case Study 3: Suicide According to the text, there are nearly 815,000 suicides in a year in the world. The truth of the matter is that this number is probably much higher due to underreported instances of intentional death. As a result of technology, a new trend in suicide is death due to “cyberbullying.” In this case study, you will review suicide as a result of cyberbullying. Read the article titled “Police file raises questions about bullying in Rebecca Sedwick's suicide”, ...

CRJ 322 Case Study 1: Deviant Behaviors Donald Sterling, an American businessman and attorney, was the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, a professional basketball franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1981 to 2014. In April 2014, Sterling was banned for life from the NBA after private recordings of him making racist comments were made public. In this case study, you will investigate the manner in which social controls may have helped or hurt Sterling in his fight to mainta...

CRJ 220 Week 8 Quiz 3 - Question and Answers CRJ220 Week 8 Quiz 3 1. Taking what appears to be moral behavior and explaining it instead in terms of self-interest is a strategy known as: 2. “Gut feelings” about right and wrong that seem to arise within our consciousness without us being aware of why or how they arose are sometimes referred to as: 3. To willingly accept some cost to ourselves in order to ensure that those who violate laws and social norms suffer consequences for their behavior...

CRJ220 Week 5 Quiz - Question and Answers • Question 1 If we eliminate free will completely, we would also be eliminating: • Question 2 Which of the following is sometimes held to be the only "event" for which there is no cause? • Question 3 If you were to argue that although a person with an IQ of 60 cannot be a world-renown physicist, s/he still has the freedom to choose within limits of what is physically, psychologically, and socially possible, yo...

CRJ 322 Case Study 4, Sexual Deviance: 2019/2020 CRJ 322 Case Study 4: Sexual Deviance According to the text, heterosexual norms represent the guidelines for determining sexual deviance. In two different cases Joran van der Sloot’s heterosexual deviance has left him as a criminal suspect in one case involving Natalee Holloway, and as a convicted murder in another case involving another woman, Stephany Flores. In this case study, you will explore heterosexual deviance as committed by Joran van...