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| criminology | study of crime from a scientific perspective.
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| Conflict theory on crime | claims that disadvantaged groups are more likely to become criminals
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| What influences criminal attitude the most? | Outside social influences
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| What fraction of crimes are reported? | 2/3
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| What are the six index crimes? | Murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property damage
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| What is a gang? | A small group of people with family-like bonds who protect their territory by committing crimes
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| What does race have to do with crime? | Improves the chances of being arrested if you're not white
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| Personal crimes | violent/nonviolent crimes directed at people.
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| Property crimes | Theft or change of property w/o bodily harm.
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| Victimless crimes | Violate laws but are not serious
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| Hate crimes | Assaults or other malicious acts driven by bias, racism, or sexual orientation.
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| Elite Crime | Criminal activities by persons of high social status. These crimes are usually committed at the job.
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| Organized crime | Committed by organized groups, such as the mafia
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| Social differentiation | Process in which different statuses develop in any group, organization, society. Cheerleader status, players, coaches, etc.
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| Social stratification | Hierarchical arrangement in society by which different groups have access to different resources and power
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| Forms of stratification (3) | Estate, caste, class systems.
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| Who came up with life chances and what are they? | Max Weber and they are opportunities that people have in life by being in a particular class.
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| What are 5 things that affect class the most? | income, wealth, education, occupation, location of residence
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| Marx defined classes by: | Means of production, and 2 classes. Working class and capitalist class.
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| Compare capitalist class to working class | working class sells labor for wages while capitalist class owns means of production
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| Who predicted a class struggle? | Marx
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| What are the 3 things that weber added to social stratification? | class (economic), status (cultural and social), power (political)
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| what differs weber from marx? | Weber saw three more aspects to stratification while marx focused on the economical aspect.
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| Function perspective on class inequality | Different classes are essential to society. Inequality motivates people to fill different positions in society that are needed to survive as a whole
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| Who claimed that the "dirty work" will be done by people who need jobs | Herbert Gan
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| Status attainment | people end up in a given position in the stratification system
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| What is socioeconomic status based off of? (3) | income, occupational prestige, education
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| Noveau riche | Upper-class members with newly acquired wealth
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| Class conflict | Emphasizes power relations in society classes
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| Manegerial class | Middle class.
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| Wealth | Monetary value - debt
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| Income | Amount of money brought into a household
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| Gender and class | Majority of women are middle class
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| What percentage of death row inmates are black? | 44
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| Are there more white people or racial minorities in prison? | over half are racial minorities
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| at what percentage do federal prisoners are serving drug sentences? | 60%
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| What percentage of women are black in prison? | 57%
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| what percentage of women are pregnant or just had a baby that are in jail? | 25%
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| How many inmates that were serving drug charges actually receive treatment? | 20%
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| How full is the occupancy of the jail? | 100%
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