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Ch.10 Flashcards

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Instrumental violence

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Acts designed to improve social/financial status

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Cycle of violence

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Kids who’ve been abided are more likely to be violent themselves

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Sigmund Freud’s 2 instinctive drives

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Eros: life instinct, focus on self-fulfillment & enjoyment

Thanatos: death instinct, impels towards self-destruction

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Psychopharmacology relationship

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Direct consequence of ingesting substance

Ex: drinking reduces cognitive ability, results in miscommunication, might lead to rape

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Economic compulsive behavior

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Drug dealers who choose violence I order to support their habit

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Systematic link

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Occurs as violence escalates when drug dealers want to dominate territory, drive out rivals

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Subculture of violence

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Segment of society who legitimizes violence as customs/norms of that group

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Cultural retaliatory Homocide

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View that police are weak, so they take matters into their own hands

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Violence and national views

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1) high-violence nations support violence, while others emphasize forgiveness
2) nations w/ high violence have high poverty/income inequality

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10
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Honor killings

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Person killed due to bringing shame to family

-common in Middle East, Asia, China

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Rape act of aggression or sexual expression?

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Act of aggression

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12
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UCR # of rapes

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85,000 rapes/attempts each year

-52 per 10,000 females

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13
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What weather crime is rape?

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Warm weather crime, July and August

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14
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Types of rapists

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Power - 55%
Anger - 40%
Sadistic (brutal) - 5%
• rape generally act of violence

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15
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Date rape

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Rape involves people who are in some sort of courting (dating) relationship

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16
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When is reporting date rape more common?

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More common when weapon used, less when drugs/alcohol involved

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17
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Marital exemption

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Accepted tradition that legally married spouse couldn’t be charged w/ rape

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18
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Statutory rape

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Sexual relations between minor & adult

-law says minors incapable of informed consent

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Causes of rape and evolution

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Rape is focused on evolution, biological aspects of male sexual drive
-instinctual; per serving species

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Virility mystique

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Belief that males must deprecate sexual feelings from need for love, respect, affection

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Reasons why males might rape -

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  • male virginity/sexual inexperience seen as shameful

- sexual insecurity might result in rape to boost self-image/masculinity

22
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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Behavior indicates infatuation w/ one’s self to exclusion of others
-pursuit of gratification, dominance, ambition

23
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Older rapists vs. younger rapists

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Older - seeking power/gratification, harm victims more

Younger - seeking sexual gratification

24
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What crime are people more likely to “blame the victim”?

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Rape - might say they provoked it

25
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Aggravated rape

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Rape involving multiple offenders, weapons, victim injuries

26
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Consent

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Victim of rape must prove that didn’t provoke, encourage, misled accused rapist
-rudeness can weaken case

27
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Shield laws

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Laws that protect women from being question about sexual history, unless relevant to case

28
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Murder definition

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The unlawful killing of a human being w/ malice

29
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First-degree murder

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When person kills another after premeditation & deliberation

30
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Premeditation -

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Killing considered beforehand, motivated by more that just act of violence

31
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Deliberation

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Means killing was planned after careful thought rather than by impulse

32
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Felony murder

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When person dies due to your felony

•usually consorted first-degree murder

33
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Second-degree murder

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Requires killer to have malice, but no premeditation or deliberation

34
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Manslaughter

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Homicide w/out malice

35
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Voluntary or no negligent manslaughter

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Killing committed in heat of passion

-ex: fight that provoked crime

36
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Involuntary or negligent manslaughter

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Killing that occurs when person’s acts are negligent w/out regard for harm they cause others
-ex: drunk driver kills a pedestrian

37
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Deliberate indifference murder

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When person knows but destructs an excessive risk to another’s health
-ex: incident w/ vicious dogs

38
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Infanticide

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Murder of very young child

39
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Filicide

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Murder of an older child

40
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Eldercide

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Murder of senior citizen

41
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Feticide

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Intentional/negligent killing of human fetus

42
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Serial killer

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Person who kills 3 or more persons in 3 or more separate events

43
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Mass murder

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Killing of 4 or more people by one or few assailants in 1 event

44
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Spree killers

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Killer of multiple victims whose nursery occur over short span of time, follow no visible pattern

45
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Battery

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Offensive touching; slapping, hitting, punishing victim

46
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Assault

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Requires no actual touching, but involves attempted batter/intentional frightening of victims by word/deed

47
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Relational aggression

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Psychological/emotional Avis involves spreading of rumors, info to harm parter

48
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Acquaintance robber

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Robberies in which victim or victims are people that robber knows

49
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Hate/Bias crime

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Violent acts directs toward persons/members of particular group
-because of race, religion, gender, etc

50
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Workplace violence

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Violence such as assaults, rape, mixer committed at work

51
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Expressive violence

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Acts that vent rage, anger, frustration

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