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Exam 1 SOC012
Chapters 1&2
24
Criminology
Undergraduate 1
09/08/2015

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Criminology
Definition
Interdisciplinary science that gathers and analyzes data on various aspects of criminal, delinquent, and general antisocial behavior
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Crime
Definition
Intentional act in voilation of the criminal law committed without defense/excuse, penalized by the state
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Folkways
Definition

Little rules, dictate our lives

ex) hand shaking, violations don't normally upset society much

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Mores
Definition

Things you shouldn't do, written/legal rules

violations usually upset society more

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Deviance
Definition
violation of rules/norms
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Taboos
Definition

Things you don't do/talk about

ex) insest, pedophilia

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Mala Prohibita
Definition

Bad because there's laws against it

ex) weed, prostitution, alcohol

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Mala en se
Definition

Bad because bad in themselves

ex) murder, rape, assult

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Criminality
Definition

Trait that lies on a continuum ranging from saint to sociopath and is composed of a mixture of varying traits

Scientific/clinical definition (independent of law)

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Actus reus
Definition
Guilty act
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Mens rea
Definition
Guilty Mind
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Criminality Continuum
Definition
Some at higher risk to commit crimes than others
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Reliability
Definition
Able to be replicated
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Validity
Definition
Accurately measures a concept
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Uniform Crime Report (UCR)
Definition
Reports crimes known to the nation's police and sheriff's departments and the number of arrests made by those agencies
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Cleared offenses
Definition
Those arrested for crimes
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Crime Rate Formula
Definition

           (# of crimes)                (* Base )

 (relevant population size)

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Part I Offenses (Index Crimes)
Definition
"serious" crimes (homicide, assult, forcible rape, robbery, larceny-theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson)
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Part II Offenses
Definition
Less serious, recorded based on arrests rather than cases reported to the police
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Hierarchy Rule
Definition
Requires police to report only highest offense committed in multiple-offense single incidents to the FBI
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Causation
Definition
Necessity to establish casual link between criminal act and harm suffered
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Concurrence
Definition
Act and mental state concur in sense that criminal intention acuates criminal act
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Corpus Delicit
Definition
"body of crime", element of an act that must be present in order to be legally defined as a crime
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Social Norms
Definition

Expected form of behavior in a given situation

(written vs. unwritten)

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