Crim J 101 Quiz 1

True

In 2013 a not guilty verdict for George Zimmerman - sparked discussion about gender & racial lines as well as how police interact with young black males

Officer Kenny responded to a call, Robinson attacked him and Kenny fired his weapon 7 times. Robinson had used illicit substances prior to the event.

means offenses are wrong in and of itself

prohibited by government, society determined them to be wrong "victimless crimes"

Doing justice, control crime, prevent crime

Split laws/rulings between federal and state government

1960's

mutual transaction of resources, all subsystems work together

- Means the society gives up some of its right to a higher power (the gov)

- Questions how society originated and how authority of the state over the individual was legitimized

Departments work and depend on each other (ex: funding)

Means theres an order for what we do (arrest, prosecution, incarceration)

taking people out of the system, deciding who doesnt need to be convicted/charged

Police, courts, corrections

Keeping the peace, apprehending violators and combating crime, preventing crime, providing social services

Federal & state courts

7 million adults

30%

70%

Police, Prosecution, Courts and corrections

Layer 1 - High media attention cases

Layer 2 - Serious felonies

Layer 3 - Less serious felonies

Layer 4 - misdemeanors

90%

Emphasizes police and prosecution discretion, plea bargaining

Goal: Use discretion, filter people out of the system

Do not filter people out because that can lead to discrimination

Goal: Preserve individual liberties

Has to do with differences between groups that apply discrimination - legitimate factors

Happens when groups are differently treated not based on behavior

Not typical, devient of social behavior

Involves societies moral principles

Because we use morals, we construct what it means to violate a crime

Sustainable justice in the system

- Street crime and ordinary crime

- 3 categories: Violent crime, property crime, and public-order crime

- Offenses conducted in legal or business occupation

- Purpose is to make profit through illegal activities

- Typically cross state and national borders

- Crimes crossing country borders

- 3 categories: Provision of illicit goods, provision of illegal services, infiltration of business in government

- Problem: US has to work with other countries

- Involves willing and private exchange of services/goods

- Offenses against morality

- Criminal acts by the government or against the government

- Use of computers and the internet to commit acts

The framework for understanding different types of crimes that exist

Used to focus research on specific causes of crimes

Used to make policies /laws for different categories

Murder, Manslaughter, Negligent homicide, serial killings

Assault is intent to inflict harm, battery is the completion of the intent

True

Crime that is not measured

- Numerical summary of crimes reported to police - only solved ones

- Data obtained from network of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies

- Includes Data on age, race & other characteristics

- Only covers 29 crime types

- Voluntary reporting

- Can be used to track serial or repeat victimization

- Self-reported

- Interviews conducted each year, same people interviewed 2x year for 3 years

Rate of victimization has decreased over past decade

- Decline in property and violent crime

- Decline crack cocaine use

- youths, women, nonwhites

- low income population in city

Economic costs, psychological and emotional costs, and the costs of operating the criminal justice system

12%

- Accountability

- Need for punishment severe enough to deter others

Tailor punishment to an offenders individual needs

Physiological and neurological factors may predispose a person to commit crime

Physical traits of offenders different from non-offenders

Biological factors may be a predisposition for criminal behaviors

Psychoanalytic theory - link between criminal behavior to psychic conflict, personality repression, and innate impulses

Social class and criminal behavior related

weakened rules and norms in society than people are more likely to commit crime

had to do with stress. stress makes you more likely to commit because not able to cope

supposition that anybody has potential to become criminal

crime is a learned behavior

When a person has no bonds to society they don't have as much to loose when they commit crimes

When people hear the they or their group commit crimes they inwardly take it and makes them commit more crime

Those in power want to oppress those not in power

Social groups may conflict, a group may be labeled as criminals

looked to explaining why women and other minorities commit crimes

- Explain why/when offenders start their criminal history and what factors lead them to stop breaking the law

- Life course offenders: Usually have a reason in brain

- Adolescent-limited offenders: try to be cool, more affected by social factors

- Combine different perspectives into a larger model

- Criminologists debate whether multiple theories can be combined

Offenders choose to do crime, they do it for a specific reason

Punishment should be quick and proportional to the crime

Motivated offender, vulnerable target, lack of capable guardians