Soci 205 Exam 2 (Cohn) Questions with correct Answers 2023
- ways of measuring crime - Correct Answer looking at published stats, self-report,
- Lowest Crime Rate Countries - Correct Answer Switzerland, Singapore, Japan
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victimization study Personal crime - Correct Answer crimes between or against a person Predatory crimes - Correct Answer want something from the victim introspective crime - Correct Answer crimes of passion
Steven Pinker - Correct Answer "Better angels of our nature" Anoime - Correct Answer Durkheim's term for the loss of direction felt in a society when social control of individual behavior has become ineffective.Marginalism - Correct Answer the idea that if a belief about a group of individuals is pushed in society it will eventually led to these groups conforming to these beliefs.(Wolfgang and Fercutei) Detterence - Correct Answer the threat of punishment will deter someone from committing crime. (Wagin, Paternoster) Different Association Theory - Correct Answer people learn to become criminals from their environment (SUTHERLAND) Durkhiem Theory - Correct Answer crime is inevitable because everyone is socialized differently therefore people don't share the same norms and there are many people with different cultures/lifestyles in concentrated areas Preventative Policy - Correct Answer prevent crimes by increasing police presence in high crime areas. (Sheman) Incapacitation - Correct Answer an approach to punishment that seeks to protect society from criminals by imprisoning or executing them. (Winemat, Todd Clear) concentrated disadvantage - Correct Answer economically impoverished, racially segregated neighborhoods with high-crime rates. (sampson) Sampson and Laub - Correct Answer compared delinquent kids with normal kids and found that delinquency starts at a early age Clearance Rate - Correct Answer the percentage of crimes known to the police that they believe they have solved through an arrest; a statistic used to measure a police department's productivity Rochester Study - Correct Answer looked at kids that had opposite lives and found that kids with less money and education leads to more crime. Also found that joining a gang caused more crime Gun control - Correct Answer gun control doesn't impact homicide rates (Gary kleck) Troy Duster - Correct Answer found that teenagers with bad relationships with their parents commit more crimes.Factor that lead to crime in the US - Correct Answer bad welfare system informal social control - Correct Answer social control that is carried out casually by ordinary people through such means as laughter, smiles, and ridicule formal social control - Correct Answer Social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police officers, judges, school administrators, and employers Are blacks or whites more likely to be victims of crime? - Correct Answer Blacks