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Ch. 4 Flashcards

1
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Classical criminology

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Theory of crime that states that criminal behavior is a matter of personal choice
-after person considers costs/benefits

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Contemporary Rational Choice Theory

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Low-violating behavior is product of careful thought/planning

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Rational Choice -
Personal Factors?
Situational Factors?

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Personal Factors -
Money, revenge, thrills

Situational Factors-
Target-availability, police presence

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4
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Offense- Specific

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View that offender reacts selectively to the characteristics of particular criminal act

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Offender-specific

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View that offenders evaluate their skills, motives, needs and fears before committing criminal act

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Difference between ‘crime’ and ‘criminality’ ?

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Crime - is an event

Criminality - is a personal trait

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Is drug use controlled by rational decision making?

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Yes

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What are the 3 types of violations?

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1) Market-Related
2) Status-based
3) Personalistic

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What’s market-related violation?

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Robberies that emerge from disputes involving in trade, or rivals

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What are Status-based violations?

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Violations involving encounters in which robber’s essential character/values have been challenged

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What’s Personalistic violations?

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Violations flow from incidents in which robber’s autonomy or sense of values have been jeopardized

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Edgework -

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The excitement/exhilaration of successfully executing illegal activities in dangerous situations

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Seductions of crime -

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The situational inducements of immediate benefits that draw offenders into law violations

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Situational Crime Prevention

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Method of crime that seeks to eliminate/reduce particular crimes in specific settings

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Defensible Space

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Principle that crime can be prevented/displaced by modifying the physical environment to reduce opportunity that individuals have to commit crime

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16
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Rational Choice Theory

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View that crime is a function of decision making process in which weighing costs/benefits on illegal act

17
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Crime Discouragers

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People who serve as guardians of property or people

18
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3 types of Crime Discouragers -

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1) “guardians” - monitor potential targets (police/store security guards)
2) “handlers” - monitor potential offenders (parole officers and parents)
3) “managers” - monitor places (homeowners)

19
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Does applying death penalty increase or decrease the # of murders?

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Increases

20
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When is it the most easiest deterrent and when is the hardest?

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Achieved deterrence is during minor crimes/offenses and more serious crimes harder to discourage

21
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Diffusion

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An effect that occurs when efforts to prevent one crime unintentionally prevent another
Ex: cameras set up in mall to reduce shoplifting, also reduce property damage

22
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Discouragement

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Effort that occurs when crime control efforts targeting particular areas help reduce crime in surrounding areas/ populations

23
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Displacement -
Extinction -
Replacement -

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Displacement- occurs when crime control efforts move/redirect offenders to less guarded targets

Extinction- occurs when crime reduction programs produce short-term positive effect

Replacement- occur when criminals try new offenses

24
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General deterrence

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Depends on fear of criminal punishments convincing the possible law violator that the pains associated w/ crime outweigh benefits

25
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What percent of crimes reported to police? How many of those are arrests?

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Only 1/2 of crimes reported to police, and police make arrests for only 20%

26
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Specific deterrence

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View that criminal sanctions should be so poets up that offenders will never repeat their criminal acts

27
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Incarceration

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Confinement in jail/prison

28
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Recidivism

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Repetition of criminal behavior

29
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2/3 of all convicted felons are tear rested within __ years of release from prison

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3

30
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Reasons why harsh treatments don’t reduce crime -

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  • punishment breeds defiance rather than deterrence

- Locks offenders into crime career

31
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Incapacitation Effect

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Idea that keeping offenders in confinement will eliminate the risk of committing further offenses

32
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Do arrests actually escalate the frequency of repeat domestic abuse?

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Yes

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