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| Program funded by the federal government that involves a monthly premium and co-pay, pays for part of medical bills of those 65+ |
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| Hospital coverage, supplemental insurance, private insurance, and outpatient drop benefit |
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| The gap between what Medicare covers and what medical care costs |
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| Program that provides healthcare coverage for the poor; is jointly funded by the federal and state government; eligibility varies by state |
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| State Children's Health Insurance Coverage (SCHIP) |
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| A public health insurance program that provides health insurance coverage for children whose families meet income eligibility standards; is jointly funded by state and federal governments |
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| 5 Reasons for the rise in healthcare costs |
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| Increased longevity, costs of hospital services/doctors fees/medical technology, cost of drugs, cost of health insurance, cost of healthcare administration |
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| An act, or the omission of an act, that is a violation of a federal, state, or local criminal law for which the state can apply sanctions |
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| The number of crimes committed per 100,000 population |
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| Defining or labeling behaviors and conditions as medical problems |
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| Structural functionalist perspective on ILLNESS & HEALTHCARE |
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| Health care is social institution that functions to maintain the well-bring of societal members; illness is a dysfunction |
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| Conflict perspective on ILLNESS & HEALTHCARE |
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| Focuses on how wealth, status, power, and the profit motive influence illness and health care; also points out how male dominance and bias influence the system |
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| Symbolic interactionist perspective on ILLNESS & HEALTHCARE |
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| Focuses on how meanings, definitions, and labels influence health, illness, and healthcare; how such meanings are learned through interaction with others and through media messages and portrayals |
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| Mental illness because the shame and embarrassment associated with mental problems discourage people from acknowledging and talking about them |
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| Suggests that mentally ill individuals have difficulty achieving educational and occupational success and thus tend to drift to the lower class |
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| Suggests that lower-class individuals experience greater adversity and stress as a result of their deprived and difficult living conditions, and this stress can reach a point where the individuals can no longer cope with daily living |
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| Strongest single predictor of good health |
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| Illnesses, symptoms, and the impairments they produce |
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| The average number of years that individuals born in a given year can expect to live |
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| The rate of deaths of children under age 5 |
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| A measure of deaths that result from complications associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and unsafe abortion |
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| Largest category of crime suspects worldwide |
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| The most common crime committed |
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| Street crime: violent crime |
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| Murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault |
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| Uniform Crime Reports (UCRs) |
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| Statistics that the FBI compiles from reported crimes and arrests from police departments throughout the U.S.A. |
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| National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) |
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| Interviews that measure how many violent and nonviolent crimes are committed and the victim's background, relationship to the offender, and the extent to which the victim was harmed |
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| Problems with official statistics |
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| Only about half of the crimes committed are reported, some aren't recorded by the police, and some rates may be exaggerated |
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| Street crime: property crimes |
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| Burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson |
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| Crimes men are more likely to commit |
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| Arson, larceny and murder |
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| Crimes women are more likely to commit |
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| Embezzlement, prostitution and commercial vice |
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| Crimes people under the age of 25 are more likely to commit |
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| Crimes people over the age of 25 are more likely to commit |
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| Embezzlement, prostitution and commercial vice |
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| Crime rates are higher in what areas? |
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| Has increased dramatically over the last decade; goes up with women's economic circumstances in relation to men's decline |
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| The law enforcement practice of targeting suspects on the basis of race |
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| Direct losses (buildings from arson), transferring of property (from owner to thief), costs from criminal violence (medical costs), illegal expenditures (production & sales of drugs), prevention & protection, controlling crime (i.e. law enforcement) |
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| Social and psychological costs of crime |
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| Fear, avoiding certain places or neighborhoods, etc |
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| The use of harm or the threat of harm to prevent unwanted behaviors |
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| A criminal justice philosophy that argues that recidivism can be reduced by changing the criminal through such programs as substance abuse counseling, job training etc |
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| A criminal justice philosophy that argues that recidivism can be reduced by placing offenders in prison so that they are unable to commit further crimes against the general public |
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| The conditional release of an offender who, for a specific time period and subject to certain conditions, remains under court supervision in the community |
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| Entails release from prison, for a specific time period and subject to certain conditions, before the inmate's sentence is finished |
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| Structural functionalist view on CRIME & SOCIAL CONTROL |
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| Crime is functional- strengthen group cohesion, lead to social change, provide moral contrast between right and wrong; strain theory |
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| When individuals accept the culturally defined goals and the socially legitimate means of achieving them |
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| When an individual accepts the goals of society but rejects or lacks the socially legitimate means of achieving them |
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| When individuals accept a lifestyle of hard work but reject the cultural goal of monetary rewards (wealth or power) |
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| When individuals reject both the cultural goal of success and the socially legitimate means of achieving it |
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| When individuals reject both culturally defined goals and means and substitutes new goals and means |
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| Crime is a result of blocked opportunities; have no other choice |
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| Conflict theory perspective on CRIME & SOCIAL CONTROL |
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| Crime is inevitable; the more inequality in a society, the higher the crime rate |
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| Symbolic Interactionist view on CRIME & SOCIAL CONTROL |
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| Focuses on how we define crimes and the effects of being labeled as a criminal or deviant |
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