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Chapter 5: Correlates of Crime Flashcards

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Correlates

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A phenomenon that accompanies another phenomenon and is related in some way to it. (variables that are connected with crime)

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Correlates of Crime include 6 things.

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  1. Age
  2. Gender
  3. Ethno-racial background
  4. drug and alcohol misuse
  5. Socioeconomic status
  6. Spatial location of offences.
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TRUE OR FALSE: Old people are disproportionately represented in crime generally, especially in violent crimes.

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FALSE: It’s Young people.

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What are some exceptions in criminal activity for youth?

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Political crimes, corruption, and other white collar crimes since they require structural opportunities and employment opportunities not yet available to youth.

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Most crime committed by Canadian youth are _______.

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Nonviolent

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What is the most common crime among Canadian youth?

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Theft under $5,000.

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Level 1 Assault

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Assaultive acts that do not cause any physical harm to victims

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Level 2 Assault

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Assaults involve carrying, using, or threatening to use an imitation or real weapon.

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Administration-of-Justice.

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Failure to report to court

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Mischief

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Crime of vandalism; unlawful interference with someone else’s property that causes damage.

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Youth homicide offenders are more likely to… (2 things)

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  1. more likely than adults to victimize strangers

2. more likely than adults to commit homicides as a group rather than as an individual.

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Maturational Reform

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People are less likely to commit crime as they grow older

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maturational Reform encompasses 3 factors.

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  1. Aging brings physiological limitations
  2. Formation of various types of social bonds
  3. Involves a more socially responsible trajectory of human agency.
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Life Course Theory

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Concerned with the “role of age-graded transitions and social controls”

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Adolescence is a period of _____

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Ambiguity

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This is an underlying casual process whose end product is reducing or ending involvement in criminal activity

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Desistance

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17
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Which sex’s offending increases after breakup

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Males

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Females are ____ likely to be charged with criminal offences

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Less

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Level of _________ in a specific type of crime is varied between men and women

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involvement

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This gender was most commonly accused for theft and fraud

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Women

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Adult female sentences are generally ______ than those given to male counterparts

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shorter

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Why do women receive more lenient punishments? (2 reasons)

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  1. Men commit more serious crimes, especially more violent offences
  2. Female offenders’ responsibility for young children
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Dangerous Offender

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sheds light on those considered most violent among the pop. of convicted serious crime

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5 pathways to women’s involvement in crime

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  1. Harmed and Harming Women
  2. Battered Women
  3. Street women
  4. Drug-connected women
  5. Other women
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“Harmed and Harming Women”

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Women who have endured abuse and have had a difficult family life.- These women commit crimes when intoxicated or when they are unable to control their anger

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“Battered Women”

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Criminal activities are precipitated by an abusive partner. Relationship with abusive men are defining factor in the criminal activity of such women.

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“Street women”

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Women who suffer serious levels of abuse in childhood or in present relationships, engage in various survival mechanisms such as Prostitution, drug-selling, and theft. Tend to have long criminal history.

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“Drug-Connected Women”

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Women who have engaged in illicit drug use and sale in part because of their relationship with people who are involved. These women are not necessarily drug-addicts, nor do they have long criminal histories.

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“Other Women”

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Refers to person with no history of unfavourable family life, who have not suffered abuse and who are not street entrenched, but who are engaged in crime for economic gain.

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Role convergence Hypothesis

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As work roles of women become similar to those of men, so will their involvement in crime.

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The gender gap in crime had ________.

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decreased

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Women’s participation/ pathways to corporate crime are ______

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relational

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____ of women participated due to pressure or directives from male bosses

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3/4

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____ is not a strong correlate to crime like age and sex

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Race

35
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In Canada, who is overrepresented in every aspect of the Canadian Justice system?

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Indigenous Peoples

36
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2 explanations for the overrepresentation of minorities in the criminal justice system

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  1. Differential Offending Hypothesis

2. Differential Treatment Hypothesis

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Differential Offending Hypothesis

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There are actual differences between racial groups in terms of the incidence, level of seriousness, and persistence of offending patterns

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Differential Treatment Hypothesis

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Structural inequality in the administration of justice is responsible for the overrepresentation of minority groups in the criminal justice process.

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Cultural Theories of Crime

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Examine the traits, characteristics, or way of life of an identifiable group to explain the involvement of members of that group in the criminal justice process

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Structural Theories

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institutional arrangements and the routine functioning of the criminal justice system are major explanatory factors for ethno-racial profile of crime statistics

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The Colonial Model

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Focuses on the intersection of “structural oppression, alienation and three adaptive forms of behaviour- assimilation, crime/deviance, and protest.

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Cultural Imposition

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Native populations are forced to adopt the values and way of life of the colonial power, leading to a collapse of norms and ways of the colonized group.

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“Mentacide”

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The deliberate and systematic destruction of a group’s mind with the ultimate objective being the extirpation of the group

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“Cultural Limbo”/ Double Alienation

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A colonized pop. is routinely and forcefully expected to shed its native identity, language, and customs.

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Cultural Limbo/ Double alienation can manifest itself in crime via __________

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Self-hate

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Horizontal Violence

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Violent acts by the person within their social class

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Social Constructionist approach to Crime

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Proposes that a crime is whatever a particular society defines it to be.

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Legal Indeterminacy

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“Not every legal case has one correct outcome” - court decisions are not always predictable

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Racialization

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A process in which categories of the pop. are constructed, differentiated, interiorized, and excluded.

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The use of _____ _____ is strongly correlated street crimes including murder, robbery, auto theft, and mischief

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Illicit drugs

51
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Goldstein’s model suggests that drugs cause crime in three ways

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  1. Psychopharmacological
  2. Economic Compulsive
  3. Systemic
52
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People in ______ socio economic status have historically been seen as responsible for crime.

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Lower

53
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There is overall little correlation between SES and __________.

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Delinquency

54
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Collective efficacy Theory

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Crime is not randomly distributed; it is a consequence of structural disadvantage and limited collective efficacy

SOC225- Criminology (10 decks)

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