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CRIMINOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2024 attempt to explain crime primarily in terms of gender-role socialization. Liberal Feminists is defined as the unlawful taking of property from the possession of someone other than one's employer. Larceny Which of the following statements is part of Richard Quinney's conflict theory of crime? Society is divided along political lines rather than being an entity based on concensus AND The content of laws and their application tend to reflect the interests of th...

Property Crime CORRECT ANSWER Offense category includes crimes such as larceny and arson? Bureau of Justice Statistics CORRECT ANSWER Responsible for compelling the NCVS? Drug Possession CORRECT ANSWER Not one of the Uniform Crime Report Part 1 Offense? Cyberterrorism CORRECT ANSWER A form of technology, especially computers and the internet, in the planning and carrying out of terrorist attacks? Uniform Crime Report CORRECT ANSWER An annual FBI publication that summarizes the incide...

Victim correct answers A person who has suffered physical, emotional, and/or financial harm because of illegal activities. Victimology correct answers The study of the role of the victim in the crime and the criminal justice process. Victimologist correct answers The person who studies crime victims. Victimless correct answers You cannot pinpoint a specific victim other than the doer. Victim Precipitation correct answers The degree of victim responsibility for what happened to them. ...

Multiple Choice 1. This type of crime generally involve a criminal action against another person. a. Violent offense b. Status offense c. Crimes against the government d. Victimless crimes Ans: A Answer Location: Violent Offenses Learning Objective: 1, Identify the six different categories of crime Cognitive Domain: Knowledge Difficulty Level: Easy Question Type: MC 2. The most common category of crime is __________. a. violent offense b. status offense c. victimless c...

CRIMINOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2023 attempt to explain crime primarily in terms of gender-role socialization. Liberal Feminists is defined as the unlawful taking of property from the possession of someone other than one's employer. Larceny Which of the following statements is part of Richard Quinney's conflict theory of crime? Society is divided along political lines rather than being an entity based on concensus AND The content of laws and their application tend to reflect the interests of th...

What is Criminology? Edwin Sutherland Criminology is the study of 1) law making, (2) law breaking, (3) societal reaction to law breaking. Lenses Normative: Good vs. bad, right and wrong Legalistic: concerned with law, legal definitions of conduct Medical: Crime/Deviance as illness to be cured Psychological: generally focuses on causes of and reactions to crime based on personality, cognition, emotion, and/or mental illness Sociological: What is the sociological imaginatio...

Who coined the term "victimology?" - Answer- Benjamin Mendelsohn Under which area of study is victimology considered a subfield? - Answer- criminology What is victimology? - Answer- scientific study of crime victims What is victim precipitation? - Answer- The extent to which a victim is responsible for their own victimization. Marvin Wolfgang discovered what percentage of homicides were victim precipitated? - Answer- 26% Why was Menachem Amir's study about rape controversial? -...

SUMMARY CRIMINOLOGY UNIT 1;AC 1.5 WRITE UP MODEL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+ What is Crime? - CORRECT ANSWERS-Crime is defined as human actions that violate the formalized laws of a country, state, or local area like a city or township. What must be established before a crime can be committed? - CORRECT ANSWERS-At the heart of this definition is the idea that a law has to be present before we can consider an act a crime. If there is no law, there is no crime, even if the act is...

How have we tried to explain the great American crime drop? - Various policies have been advocated for the decrease in crime in the 1990s, such as: Increased incarceration, community policing, a stronger economy, etc. However, there are no "easy explanations". What evidence indicates that the crime drop is genuine? - The NCVS tells us that people feel safer than in past years. In a comparative analysis of crime trends, several countries experienced declines in crime in the 1990s, includin...

CRIMINOLOGY FINAL EXAM 2024 attempt to explain crime primarily in terms of gender-role socialization. Liberal Feminists is defined as the unlawful taking of property from the possession of someone other than one's employer. Larceny Which of the following statements is part of Richard Quinney's conflict theory of crime? Society is divided along political lines rather than being an entity based on concensus AND The content of laws and their application tend to reflect the interests of th...