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| involves an atrocious attack with the intent to kill or the use of a deadly weapon. Convicted of a felony |
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| Convicted of a misdemeanor |
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| Victim-precipitated homicide |
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| The victim had first attacked the subsequent slayer |
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| Assumes that these self-precipitated murder victims may have secretly wanted to kill themselves |
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| the offender and victim try to defend their honor after it has been threatened by the other |
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| Homicide-suicide offenders |
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| they first kill their victim, and then finish themselves off |
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| the murder is a normal person because after killing the loved one, he is able to feel remorse |
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| Psychotic, believing that instead of feeling remorse, the offender anticipates a reunion with the victim in another world |
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| Killing a number of people at about the same time and place |
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| killing a number of people at one time |
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| pursing someone in a way that creates the fear of being assaulted or killed |
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| young, bored, and idle, are seized with the idea of going out together to look for someone to attack |
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| feel the need to defend what they consider to be their birthright |
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| seek to destroy all members of a hated group |
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| the wholesale killing of members of a racial or ethnic group. Have the job of killing others |
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| External Restraint Theory |
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| the amount of social control imposed on people to limit their freedom and range of behaviors |
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| Lead toward outward aggression (favor homicide) |
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| turn aggression against themselves. (favor suicide) |
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| Women, Young, Lower-class, More likely to abuse drugs |
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| depressed, apologetic, magnanimous(generous),surrealistic |
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| individual may feel genuinely angry with themselves for having done a wrongful ac and for that reason use self-killing to punish themselves |
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| assume that there is something wrong with the person who commits suicide |
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| assume that there is nothing wrong with the person who commits suicide |
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| individuals voluntarily attach themselves to a group or society of which they are members |
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| individuals being restrained, constrained, or controlled by a group or society of which they are members |
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| caused by too little social integration |
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| too much social integration |
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| too little social regulation |
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| too much social regulation |
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| an act of aggression directed against oneself, the aggression having been induced by one's frustration with life |
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| Sociological factors because |
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| individuals who are inadequately involved with others are prone to suicide |
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| if people have been conditioned by their parents to develop a strong conscience they are likely to blame themselves rather than other people for their problems. since they blame themselves, they are more likely to kill themselves |
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| frustration is higher for higher-status individuals, and therefore more likely to cause them to kill themselves. Higher status people fall harder |
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| caused by damage to the brain |
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| results from unpleasant childhood experiences, interpersonal conflict or social stress |
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| losing touch with reality |
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| inability to face reality |
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| Mentally Ill: Social class |
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| people from lower class are more likely than those from other classes to become mentally ill |
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| lower class people are more prone to mental disorder b/c they are more likely to experience social stress |
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| mental ill people from higher social classes often drift downward into the lower class neighborhoods, helping the increase rate of mental illness in that neighborhood |
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| you feel slightly sad over some ordinary disappointment |
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| you would be sadder b/c of a more unpleasant experience |
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| a mental disorder involving the ind of sadness that is extreme,out of proportion to the event that has triggered it. |
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| began treating patients as humans and encouraging them to have hope and confidence in themselves |
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| believed mental illness was a great blessing |
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| mental illness was attributed to some evil spirit that has somehow entered the body |
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| demonology disappeared but mentally ill were still harshly treated |
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| hospitalizing the mentally ill against their will |
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| mentally ill persons can be denied the right to be tried |
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| the court can put away a mentally ill person for a crime by allowing a defense of insanity |
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| not guilty if at the time of the crime, the individual did not understand between right and wrong. |
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| the accused are not guilty if they are mentally ill, b/c the crime is considered the "product" of their mental illness |
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| mental illness is similar to physical disease in that its causes are biological; it should be treated, then in the same way as a physical disease |
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| mental disorder is from some unresolved psychic or emotional conflict in the patient |
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| animal desires, no regard for reason, logic, or morality |
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| operates in accordance with the reality principle |
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| seeks to restrain the id, but for moral reasons, known as the conscience |
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| The child grows up to be normal |
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| ego fails to resolve conflict |
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| Social support, personal skill, and high self-esteem as a way to cope |
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| some constructionists see mental disorder not as a sickness but as a label imposed on some disturbing behavior |
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| psychotics are more sane than normal people |
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| want schools to teach teens to abstain from sex |
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| support comprehensive programs teaching abstinence and contraception |
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| adultery does not involve intercourse |
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| take place in societies where they are "socially approved" |
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| Extramarital sex is more common in |
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| men, lower-income people and less religious people |
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| Exposure to _____ encourages male aggression against women |
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| males shown sexual violent videos were more likely to administer electrical shocks to women than those who had watched nonviolent films |
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| Phone sex was a feminist reaction to ____ |
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| any sexual conduct that makes the workplace environment so hostile or abusive to the victims that they find it hard to perform their job |
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| the exchange of sex for money |
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| less educated, and more likely to shoot drugs and get STD's, and are more often arrested by police |
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| have been brought up in poor and chaotic families where they are accustomed to seeing mothers or older sisters engage in sex with different men |
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| been brought up in disorganized families, run away from home and become heavy drug users |
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| where customers are met, and earning are shared with operator |
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| "the aristocrats of prostitution" occupy the highest status in the sex business |
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| Davis's Functionalist Theory |
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| sexual morality, keeping wives and daughters of the respectable citizens pure |
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| reflects society's view that promiscuous men are not a threat to the moral order |
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| Social-Psychological Theory |
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| Predisposing factors (parental promiscuity, parental neglect, child abuse) Attracting factors (easy life to be a prostitute) Precipitating factors |
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| gays feel different from their peers, they don't fit in |
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| gays begin to feel that they might be gay, but refuse to define themselves as such |
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| regard feelings as definitely gay, get involved in gay subculture, and redefine gay as a positive lifestyle |
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| committing to gayness as a way of life |
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| More gays and lesbians live in _____ |
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| gays and lesbians are more likely to be _____ |
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| gay men have lower levels of male sex hormones than straight men, lesbians have less female sex hormones than male sex hormones |
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| size of the hypothalamus (smaller brain could make a person gay) |
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| straights who's sexual feelings are heterosexual, and only incidentally gay |
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| engage in a greater value of same-sex activities, make money from letting adults do thing to them |
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| men and women engage in same sex acts in which the opportunity presents itsself |
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| refers to those having the characteristics of both sexes |
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| belong to one sex but feel like members of the opposite sex |
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| being born with the organs of both sexes |
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| wear clothes associated with the opposite sex |
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| Pharmaceutical "pharming" party |
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| group of teenagers gather to trade and take a host of different prescription pills |
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| produce alertness and excitation as well as suppress fatigue and sluggishness |
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| relax muscles, relieve anxiety, alleviate pain, create euphoria, or induce sleep |
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| alter the user's perception of reality |
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| Factors that influence effects of drugs |
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| dosage, purity, drug mixing, administration, habituation |
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| Combat Methamphetamine Act |
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| harder to attain drugs over the counter |
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| drug users are forced into a life of crime b/c they cannot afford to pay for their expensive drug habits unless they rob or steal to get the money for their next fix |
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| general deviance syndrome theory |
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| the high correlation between drugs and crime does not mean that drug use causes crime |
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| Illegal drug use-Biological |
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| inborn high tolerance for drugs or metabolic disorder that creates craving for illicit drugs |
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| Illegal drug use-psychological |
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| personality traits such as low self-esteem or unconcentionality |
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| Illegal drug use-sociological |
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| Cogntitive association theory |
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| development of addiction is derived from effects felt from not having the drug rather than the pleasure that is felt while using the drug |
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| Social psychological theory |
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| influence from societal or cultural levels |
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| using law enforcement to stop the supply of drugs and punish drug sellers and users |
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| using drug prevention for education and treatment to reduce the demand for drugs and held drug addicts |
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| involves giving the patient a drugs that has almost the same chemical make up as the illicit drug without the withdrawal distress |
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| making patients associate their drug of choice with some unpleasant experience |
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| helping patients discover and then seek to eliminate the psychological causes of their drug abuse |
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| a group of drug addicts discussing and sharing with each other their lies and personal experiences with drug abuse |
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| drug addicts living together like members of a family |
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| the consumption of 5 or more consecutive drinks for men and 4 or more for women |
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| _____ are more likely to become alcoholics |
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| excessive drinkers whose dependence upon alcohol has attained such a degree that it shows an interference with their bodily and mental health |
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| experiences relief from tensions |
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| experiencing blackouts, will drink a lot, alone, in the mornings, and begin to hurt their relationships with people closest to them |
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| have chills, shakes and other withdrawal distress when not drinking |
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| becomes isolated and withdrawn from others, told dependence on alcohol. |
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