Exam 1 CH 1-4 Flashcards
Institutional violence
Violent behavior perpetuated in an organization setting, such as in the family, in the workplace, in the military, or through a religious organization.
Instrumental violence
Violence is the means to an end, such as acts committed during a robber
Expressive violence
Members see violence as a meaning to express anger, resentment, and frustration
Interpersonal violence
Assaults, robberies, rapes, and murders
Uniform crime report’s
The most widely used source of statistical information about violent crime in the United States
Spillover theory
The theory that violence overlaps into different part of someone’s life. Example, some suggest the more society legitimated some kind of violence, such as in the war, capital punishment, and justifiable homicide, the more legitimates violence, such as robbery and murder, there will be.
Differential association theory
Sociological variant of social learning theory, search that if you associate with individuals and groups who use violence and who have attitudes supporting and justifying violence, then you are more likely to engage in violent behavior yourself.
Frustration aggression hypothesis
Contends that violence is one possible response for individuals who feel frustrated and thwarted in achieving something
General strain theory
Anomie theory refined by Robert it includes strands other then economic conditions. Robert are use that there are three main sources of the strand. An individual is stopped from achieving a goal, something an individual possesses or values is removed or threatened, or something negative or unwanted is imposed on an individual. When somebody experiences one of these three situations, and when the occurrence is accompanied by difficulty in coping and sense of anger, then violence may result as the person lashes out to resolve the situation through force and aggression
Serotonin
A substance that helps relay messages over a gap (synapses) between nerve cells and allows the messages to proceed. Low levels of serotonin are linked to a variety of issues, including depression, suicide, and anxiety as well as impulsive acts of aggression
Testosterone
High levels of this hormone are linked to aggression
Social learning theory
Combines various social logical and psychological insight and trying to make sense of human behavior. We learn from the things we experience, the things we see, and the people with whom we associate. We learn from surroundings, experiences, acquaintances , friends, and family. Contends that we learn any other behavior, by watching others and imitating their behavior
Strain theories
There is the contend that blocked or frustrated needs and desires may result in Criminality and violence
Gun control legislation
Has been introduced at federal, state, and local level
Brand Bill ( Brandy handgun violence prevention act 1993 )
Mandates criminal history background checks on persons applying to purchase firearms from federally firearm dealers
Federal firearms act 1938
congregational act that banned 19 weapons that looked like military weapons including AK-47 and uzis. The act was larger symbolic because the bad weapons were rarely rarely used in crimes
Fire arms owners protection act 1968
Passed with backing of the NRA to prohibit the federal government from centralizing the records of firearms owners and fire arms transactions and allowed federal firearms license is to sell arms as a temporary locations, such as gun shows
Homicidal Traid
Histories of serial killers frequently include these three behaviors, bedwetting past and appropriate age, cruelty to animals, and fire setting
Emotional desensitization
Reduction in distress related to psychology reactivity to observation or thoughts
Second amendment
US Constitution amendment inextricably linked to our gun culture debate : “a well regulated militant, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed”
18th amendment
A lot of manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol
Schedule 1/schedule 2 drugs
Schedule one:
drugs that have no accepted medical utility and a higher portion for abuse.
Schedule 2,
substance having a high abuse risk but also some accepted medical purposes
Aggravated assault
An attack or attempt attack with the weapon, regardless of whether or not an injury occurred, and an attack without a weapon when serious injury results
