Chapter 1

Question 1

What is criminal law?

Answer 1

Rules society creates to discourage deviant behavior

Question 2

Criminal procedures

Answer 2

Rules that govern the actions of gov’t officials in investigating and prosecuting criminals offenses

Question 3

Sociology

Answer 3

The study of the way humans act

Question 4

Criminology

Answer 4

The scientific study of the nature,extent, cause and control of criminal behavior

Question 5

Deviant behavior

Answer 5

Actions that depart from social norm

Question 6

Criminal justice

Answer 6

The system of agencies of social control

Question 7

Criminological enterprise

Answer 7

Various sub areas included with in the scholarly discipline of criminology which taken together define the field of study

Question 8

How to measure crime

Answer 8

Criminal statistics/crime measurement

• develop theories of crime causes Atkin
  
  • crime as a function of psychology
  • crime as a biological function
  • crime as sociological function

Question 9

Penelogy

Answer 9

Rehabilitation/capital punishment/ mandatory sentence

Question 10

Victimology

Answer 10

The study of the victims role in criminal events

Question 11

Classic school of criminology

Answer 11

People choose to commit crime ant that crime can be controlled if potential criminals feared punishment (cost & benefit perspective)
-deter it with the feat of consequences

Question 12

Positivist criminology

Answer 12

Use of scientific method of the natural sciences, which suggest that human behavior is product of social,biological,psychological, or economic forces that can be empirically measured.

Question 13

Scientific method

Answer 13

The use of verifiable principles and procedures for the systematic acquisition of knowledge.

Question 14

Sociological criminology

Answer 14

Crime is inevitable because of the wide variety of people and “accept behavior”

• neighborhood conditions effect crime rates
• leaves wholes in the analyzes

Question 15

Developmental criminology

Answer 15

The initiation and continuity of a criminal career has a development process influenced by both internal and external situations conditions and circumstances

-social,psych, economic

Question 16

Classic theory

Answer 16

Argues that criminals are rational decision makers before choosing to commit crime,criminals evaluate the benefits and coast of contemplated criminal acts; their choice is structured by the fear of punishment

Question 17

Bio/psych - trait theory

Answer 17

Biological and psychological traits interact with environmental factors to influence criminality. Contemporary trait theories suggest that there is a casual life no between criminal behavior and such individual level factors as diet, hormonal, make up, personality and intelligence

Question 18

Social structure theory

Answer 18

Maintains that a person’s place is the social structure controls their behavior;people are a product of their environment. Those at the bottom of the social hierarchy, who find it impossible to achieve monetary and social success through conventional means, experience anomie, strain, failure and frustration.

Question 19

Deviant behavior

Answer 19

Any action that departs from social norms (very broad)

Question 20

Crime

Answer 20

An act deemed socially harmful or dangerous, that is specifically defined, prohibited, and punished under the criminal law

Question 21

Consensus view

Answer 21

The belief that that majority of citizens in a society share common values and agree on what behaviors should be defined as criminal

Question 22

Interactionist view

Answer 22

The belief that those with social power are able to impose their values on society as a whole, and these values then define criminal behavior