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| show | The body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon
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| What aspects does criminology contain | show 🗑
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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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| show | to better understand crime, criminal behaviour and societys response to it.
to reduce crime we must understand it
crime affects everyone, directly or indirectly- victims, taxpayers and employees
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| What are the consequences of the media's misrepresentation? | show 🗑
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| How does the media influence public perception | show 🗑
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| show | The definition of crime and criminals
the origions and role of the law
the social distribution of crime
the causation of crime
patterns of criminal behaviour
societal reactions to crime
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| show | understand why certain acts are considered criminal
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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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| Legal definition of crim | show 🗑
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| show | not all things are harmful are criminal, not all crimes are harmful
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| Hagan: crime and deviance should be considered as a continumm from most serious to least serious acts, based on 3 dimensions | show 🗑
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| crime is socially defined | show 🗑
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| crime as a socual construct | show 🗑
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| show | criminal laws represent a consensus within a society about what acts should be prohibited
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| laws are a codification of _____ shared by most members of sociery | show 🗑
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| How is the consensus theory supported | show 🗑
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| What do conflict theorists reject | show 🗑
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| class conflict theorists see | show 🗑
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| Laws are the resuly of a political process, which involves confluct between | show 🗑
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| show | the body of knowledge regarding crine as a social phenomenon
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| objective of criminolgy | show 🗑
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| Controversies over counting crime (4) | show 🗑
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| show | 640,000
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| show | 54 percet
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| show | for every 17 offences that occur, one person is charged
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| How many people are statistically convicted | show 🗑
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| How many people are statistically sentenced | show 🗑
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| What are four points of misuse of statistics and theories of crime | show 🗑
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| It is important to critically analyze crime statistics for ther ___and __ | show 🗑
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| show | Police reports and records, court decisions, administrative records of prisons and penetenteraties, decisions of parole and probation officals
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| To change records into statistics we need to consider issues such as | show 🗑
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| What is the dark figure of crime | show 🗑
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| show | official police reported statistics
victimization surveys
self report studies
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| show | to provide uniform and comparable national statistics
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| Two versions that are used by the ucr to provide uniform and comparabkle national statistics | show 🗑
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| show | crime rate expressed as number of criminal incidents for every 100,000 canadians
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| show | allows for comparisons between jurisdictions or over time
is not influenced by differences in population size between jurisdictions or changes in popularion size in one jurisdiction
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| show | addresses the matter of the crime rate being driven by high volumes of less serious offences
csi calculated by having each offence assigned a weight derived from sentences given by the criminal courts
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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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| show | 31 percent
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| show | 2004-2009
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| Where are violent crime rates and household vicimizations higher-according to the victimization survey 2009 | show 🗑
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| show | asking the criminals what they do and how often they commit a crime
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| What is a correlate | show 🗑
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| show | variables that are connected with crime
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| six socio-demographic variables of offenders that correlate with crine | show 🗑
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| show | 18
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| show | People in their 60's
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| Cases completed in adult criminal court by age group- what age grouphas the most cases completed | show 🗑
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| show | 55-89 -6 cases
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| What is maturational reform | show 🗑
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| three factors that contribute to maturational reform | show 🗑
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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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| In canada 2001/2012 males made up of wat percent of defendents in adult criminal court, admissons to adult correctional services | show 🗑
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| Women are less likely involved in crime. Daly describes 5 pathways for womens involvment in crime, which includes: | show 🗑
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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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| Increase in females committing minor property offences may reflect the: | show 🗑
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| Race is not as strongly related to crime as: | show 🗑
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| show | aborigionals
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| Which minority group is over representated in toronto and nova cotia | show 🗑
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| What are the two explanations of overrepresentation of minorites in the CJS | show 🗑
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| What is the differential offending hypothesis | show 🗑
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| What is the differential treatment hypothesis | show 🗑
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| show | 4 percent
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| show | aboriginal cultures are inherently violent
aboriginal cultures are different from euro canadian in content or manner of expression; this predisposes them to conflict with the law
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| show | colonial model, historic trauma transmission model
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| show | aborigional society colonized by euro canadians, which had devestating psycological and social consequences -
critical race theory
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| What is the historic transmission model | show 🗑
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| What is the critical race theory | show 🗑
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| show | their exclusion from mainstream society
overpoliving and harsh sentences
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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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| show | us, europe and scandanavia
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| show | most-northwest territories
least-ontario
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| show | most-nunavut
least-prince edward island
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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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| Crime and violence are higher or lower in poor neighborhoods | show 🗑
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