Unit 1

Question 1

Legal Crime

Answer 1

Act prohibited by the state and punishable under the law

Question 2

Moral Crime

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Social Crime

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Psychological Crime

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Prevalence

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Victimization

Answer 6

Those affected by the crime

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Provincial

Question 8

Jurisdiction of sentences 2 years or more.

Answer 8

Federal

Question 9

Intra-differences

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Inter-differences

Answer 10

Variations in criminal conduct between individual

Question 11

Cognitive social learning theory of crime

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Correctional Psychology

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Crime Severity Index

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Meta-Analysis

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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