Unit 1 Flashcards

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Legal Crime

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Act prohibited by the state and punishable under the law

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Moral Crime

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The violation of norms of religion and morality that are punishably by supreme beings

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Social Crime

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Violation of certain norms and customs that are punishable by the community

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Psychological Crime

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Act that is rewarding to the perpetrator but harmful to others.

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Prevalence

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The proportion of a population found to be involved in a crime

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Victimization

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Those affected by the crime

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Jurisdiction of sentences less than 2 years, community sentences, or young offender services.

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Provincial

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Jurisdiction of sentences 2 years or more.

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Federal

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Intra-differences

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Variations in criminal conduct within an individual across time and different situations

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Inter-differences

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Variations in criminal conduct between individual

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Cognitive social learning theory of crime

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Criminal conduct is influenced by social and cognitive factors: temptations, facilitators, inhibitors, and stressors

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Correctional Psychology

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Application of psychology to the understanding of the assessment and management of individuals who are engage in criminal behavior

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Crime Severity Index

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Tracks the severity of police-reported crime by comparing the volume and the seriousness of the crime

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Meta-Analysis

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the use of statistics from individual studies to create an average effect size for all the studies combined

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The Central 8 Risk Factors and The Big Four(*)

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History of antisocial behavior, Antisocial personality patter, Antisocial cognition, Antisocial associates, Family and/or marital, School and/or work, Leisure and/or recreation, Substance abuse

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