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| Interdisciplinary science that gathers and analyzes data on various aspects of criminal, delinquent, and general antisocial behavior |
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| Intentional act in voilation of the criminal law committed without defense/excuse, penalized by the state |
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Little rules, dictate our lives
ex) hand shaking, violations don't normally upset society much |
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Things you shouldn't do, written/legal rules
violations usually upset society more |
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Things you don't do/talk about
ex) insest, pedophilia |
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Bad because there's laws against it
ex) weed, prostitution, alcohol |
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Bad because bad in themselves
ex) murder, rape, assult |
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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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| Some at higher risk to commit crimes than others |
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| Accurately measures a concept |
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| Uniform Crime Report (UCR) |
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| 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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| Those arrested for crimes |
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(# of crimes) (* Base )
(relevant population size) |
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| Part I Offenses (Index Crimes) |
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| "serious" crimes (homicide, assult, forcible rape, robbery, larceny-theft, burglary, motor vehicle theft, arson) |
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| Less serious, recorded based on arrests rather than cases reported to the police |
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| Requires police to report only highest offense committed in multiple-offense single incidents to the FBI |
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| Necessity to establish casual link between criminal act and harm suffered |
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| Act and mental state concur in sense that criminal intention acuates criminal act |
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| "body of crime", element of an act that must be present in order to be legally defined as a crime |
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Expected form of behavior in a given situation
(written vs. unwritten) |
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