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exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Prison experience transforms people’s behavior/forces them to accept inmate culture

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Deprivation model

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2
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inmate’s early socialization (pre-prison) shapes behavior/attitudes

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Importation perspective

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3
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inmate culture is strongly influenced by management style in prison

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Administrative control model

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4
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T or F, Environments may provide both motivation & opportunity to offend

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T

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5
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Reduce pressures, maintain adequate security

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Prison balance

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6
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Demand $ immediately upon entering store

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Straight

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7
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Demand $ some time after entering store & engage in act of making purchase

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Customer

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8
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Forcible taking of goods from a store

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Merchandise robbery

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9
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Provides public with certain information on location of sex offenders, all states have this

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Megan’s Law

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10
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defined as “a public response or set of responses to crime which generate the appearance, but not the fact of crime control.”

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Crime Control theater

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11
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Wedding cake model of justice Level 1

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Heinous/unusual crimes, celebrated cases

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12
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Level 2

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serious felonies

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13
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level 3

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less serious felonies

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14
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level 4

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mistemeanors

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15
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Crimes known to & recorded by police depts.

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Official Data

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16
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data base for all offenses in an incident

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NIBRS (National Inciden-based reporting system

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17
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ask respondents to describe their own participation in delinquent or criminal acts.

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Self Report Surveys

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18
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Daily activities of individuals results in convergence of motivated offender, desirable target, and absence of controllers

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Routine Activities theory

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19
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-people w/direct personal influence over offender

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Intimate handlers

20
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People with influence on victims

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guardians

21
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people who take care of places

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place managers

22
Q

Directed at highly specific forms of crime which make crime harder, riskier, less rewarding, less excusable, and reduce provocations

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Situational Crime Prevention

23
Q

distinctive practical requirements for successfully committing crime

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Path of action

24
Q

unique ways of understanding how one is & will be seen by others

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Line of interpretation

25
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seductions & compulsions that have special dynamics

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Emotional Process

26
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Stages of criminal act

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Prelude, incident, aftermath

27
Q

events that lead directly up to a crime

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Prelude

28
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immediate criminal act

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The incident

29
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whatever happens after/as result of incident

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Aftermath

30
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5 stages of history

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Village, Town, Convergent city, Divergent metropolis, cyber age

31
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Traveled on foot
people knew eachother
Custom-made belongings
local crime unlikely

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Village

32
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Horses-travel, targets, speedy raids

recognition

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Town

33
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Ships, goods, port cities
docks and warehouses-crime targets
cities growing, more strangers come in contact
factories operating around the clock

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Convergent city

34
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Autos-allowed people to travel more

Ability to supervise space and property declines

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Divergent Metropolis

35
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Old urban neighborhoods built for pedestrians contributes to: vibrant city, low crime rate

High rise bldgs & streets built for cars,
hostile to pedestrians, destroys neighborhood life, undermines cities

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Jane Jacobs (Death & Life of Great American Cities)

36
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3 inventions that affected crime

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Cars, Suburban Housing, Highways

37
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Computers become faster, worldwide linkage, increased access

Cyberspace takes range for offenders to new level

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Cyber age

38
Q

Requires all colleges and universities who receive federal aid to share info about crime on campus and efforts to improve campus safety and inform public of crime in or around campus

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Jeanne Clery Act (1990)

39
Q

THE 25 TECHNIQUES OF SITUATIONAL PREVENTION ARE UNDER FIVE HEADINGS WHICH INCLUDE: REDUCE PROVOCATIONS, REMOVE EXCUSES, INCREASE RISKS, REDUCE THE REWARDS AND

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Increase the effort

40
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IN THE CHAPTER, “CHEMISTRY FOR CRIME,” THE AUTHORS IDENTIFY 3 STAGES OF CRIMINAL ACT: THESE WERE PRELUDE, INCIDENT AND AFT_______

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Aftermath

41
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ACCORDING TO FELSON & ECKERT IN “CHEMISTRY FOR CRIME” THE WEIGHT OF ITEMS BURGLED TENDS TO INCREASE AS ONE GOES FURTHER FROM…

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The city

42
Q

THE BELIEF THAT OFFENDERS ARE MORE INTELLIGENT AND SKILLED THAN THEY PROBABLY ARE IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHICH FALLACY?

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Ingenuity Fallacy

43
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AS DISCUSSED IN THE ARTICLE, “DANGER ON THE DANCE FLOOR: A STUDY OF INTERIOR DESIGN, CROWDING AND AGGRESSION IN NIGHTCLUBS,” WHAT DID THE CONCEPT OF DENSITY REFER TO?

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STATISTICAL MEASURE (E.G. HOW MANY PEOPLE PER 1,000 SQUARE FEET)

44
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ACCORDING TO THE CHAPTER, “BRINGING CRIME TO YOU” BY FELSON & ECKERT, THERE ARE STAGES IN THE HISTORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE. AFTER THE CONVERGENT CITY CAME THE… (HINT: DM)

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DIVERGENT METROPOLIS

45
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IN THE CHAPTER, “OFFENDERS MAKE DECISIONS,” THE AUTHORS MAKE THE POINT THAT IF YOU REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND CRIME THAT YOU SHOULD NOT ASK OFFENDERS WHY THEY COMMIT CRIME BUT INSTEAD ASK….:

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How a crime is done

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