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criminology

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show The body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon  
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show making of laws the breaking of laws reacting to the breaking of laws  
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show to develop a body of general and verified principles and knowledge regarding law, crime and treatment  
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Why should we understand crime   show
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show It influences public perceptions, television violence may contribute to crime, tv coverage does not examine the social and structural reason behind crime  
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How does the media influence public perception   show
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The discipline of criminology has six major ares   show
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The origions and role of the law help us :   show
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show -harmful acts are considered harms against society as a whole the state is responsible for enforcing and prosecuting those who commit these harmful acts  
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show a crime is an act that violates criminal law and is punishable. in canada, crimes are defined by the criminal code  
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show not all things are harmful are criminal, not all crimes are harmful  
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show 1. the degree of consensus that an act is wrong the severity of scoietys response to the act the amount of h caused by the act  
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show the seperation of crime from other kinds of deviance is a social and politcal phenomenon  
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show there are no universally condemned acts deviance involves the violation of a rule or regulation or law there is nothing inherent in any othat makes it unlawful rules can change  
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consensus theory   show
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show values  
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show by polls indicating there is a broad agreement about many laws and the seriousness of various criminal offenses  
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show the idea that laws reflect a consensus in society  
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class conflict theorists see   show
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show different interest groups  
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show the body of knowledge regarding crine as a social phenomenon  
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show to develop a body of principles regarding this process of law, crime and treatent  
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show inquiry- how can we obtain reliable and valid date reliability- how consistant are the results validity- does the tool actually measure crime methodolgy- need to critically examine the methods use to count crime  
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How many break and enters estimated in 2009   show
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How many break and enters were reported in 2009   show
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How many people statistically are charged for break and enter   show
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show for about every 56 offences that occur, 1 person is convicted  
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show for about every 122 offenses that occur, 1 person is sentenenced into custody  
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What are four points of misuse of statistics and theories of crime   show
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show validity and reliability  
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cjs produces an enormous amount of data which includes   show
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To change records into statistics we need to consider issues such as   show
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show crime that remains unreported, unrecorded, largely unknown  
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Three dominant ways to count crime or describe crime patterns and trends   show
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show to provide uniform and comparable national statistics  
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show UCR Aggregate survey- collects summary data for 100 seperate criminal offences UCR Incidence based survey- collects detailed inofo on each incident, victems and accused  
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show crime rate expressed as number of criminal incidents for every 100,000 canadians  
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The use of crime rate expressed as number of criminal incidents for evefy 100, 000 canadians:   show
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2/4 points of the crime severity index   show
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show the more serious the average sentence, the greater the weight the more serious offences have a greater impact on the severity index  
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show a sample of people are asked by a questionnaire survey, whether they have been a crime victim.  
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show caputres many cries not included in ucr  
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show 25 percent  
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show 70 perent  
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According to the victimization survey 2009-what percentage of people who have been victimized reported it to the police   show
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When were victimation rates stable- according to the 2009 vicitmization survey   show
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show in western canada  
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show asking the criminals what they do and how often they commit a crime  
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show a phenomenon that accompanies another phenomanon and is related in some way to it  
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show variables that are connected with crime  
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show age, gender, ethno-racial background, socioeconomic status, spatial location of offences, places  
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show 18  
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show People in their 60's  
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show 18-24 -30 percent  
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cases completed in adult criminal court by age group-what age has the least cases completed   show
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What is maturational reform   show
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show physiological limitations social bonds social responsibility  
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In canada 2011/2012 males made up up how many accused in sexual assaults, weapons offences and accused of homicide   show
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show defendents-81 admissions-85  
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show harmed and harming women battered women street women drug connected women other women  
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show as the work roles become similar to men , so will their involvment in crime- not supported by rsearch  
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show feminization of poverty  
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show age and gender  
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show aborigionals  
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show african canadians  
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What are the two explanations of overrepresentation of minorites in the CJS   show
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show there is a difference between racial groups in termsof the incidence, level of seriousness and persistence of offending patterns  
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What is the differential treatment hypothesis   show
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show 4 percent  
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Cultural theories of aboriginals include:   show
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Structural theories   show
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what is the colonial model   show
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show acculturation produces learned helplessness( fatalism)-leaves to self blame, passivity, hostile behaviour, decreased sense f self  
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show CJS reflects dominant groups norms and values and favors that group. enforcement and interpretation of the law is subjective-  
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Aborigional people are overrepresented in the cjs because of what   show
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What is the percentage of inmates who enter custody with substangabuse issues `   show
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Low socioeconomic status is a catalyst for delinquency because it causes   show
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High socio econimic status promotes delinquency by   show
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show usa  
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Canada has a low rate of violence in compared to the ___ but it is high compared to ___ and ____   show
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show most-northwest territories least-ontario  
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In 2013 the provinvev with the most and least violent crime   show
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show most-northwest territories least-ontario  
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True or false - violent juveline behaviour declines when a family moves to wealthier neighbourhood   show
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show higher  
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