Unit 1 Flashcards
Legal Crime
Act prohibited by the state and punishable under the law
Moral Crime
The violation of norms of religion and morality that are punishably by supreme beings
Social Crime
Violation of certain norms and customs that are punishable by the community
Psychological Crime
Act that is rewarding to the perpetrator but harmful to others.
Prevalence
The proportion of a population found to be involved in a crime
Victimization
Those affected by the crime
Jurisdiction of sentences less than 2 years, community sentences, or young offender services.
Provincial
Jurisdiction of sentences 2 years or more.
Federal
Intra-differences
Variations in criminal conduct within an individual across time and different situations
Inter-differences
Variations in criminal conduct between individual
Cognitive social learning theory of crime
Criminal conduct is influenced by social and cognitive factors: temptations, facilitators, inhibitors, and stressors
Correctional Psychology
Application of psychology to the understanding of the assessment and management of individuals who are engage in criminal behavior
Crime Severity Index
Tracks the severity of police-reported crime by comparing the volume and the seriousness of the crime
Meta-Analysis
the use of statistics from individual studies to create an average effect size for all the studies combined
The Central 8 Risk Factors and The Big Four(*)
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