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Criminology Exam Questions withComplete Solutions
Causation - Answer-possible reasons for committing a crime
crime - Answer-an intentional act or omission in violation of criminal law
legal duty - Answer-obligation to another person that is imposed by law
intent - Answer-the will to do a crime
mensea rea - Answer-criminal intent to commit a crime; have mental abillity to do a
crime
culpabillity - Answer-blameworthy or at fault
criminal law - Answer-comes from three sources; federal and state constitution, statues,
and court decisions. when state initiates action against the person accused of the crime
statuatory law - Answer-laws created by u.s. and state legislators
case law - Answer-law that develops from juidical decisions
administrative law - Answer-another source of criminal law, when legistlatures delegate
law making to administraive agencies, like the federal trade commision, or the irs
civil law - Answer-an individual wronging another individual
defense - Answer-reasons that are justifiable for executing a crime; self defense
felony - Answer-a person who commited a felony would be subject to a death sentece,
or long term prison sentence. punishment of over a year
misdemeanor - Answer-a less serious offense, subject to a short jail sentence.
jury nulification - Answer-when jurors refuse to return a guilty verdict even when the
facts point tot he defendants guilt
stare decisis - Answer-to abide by or adhere to rulings in previously settled cases
mala in se - Answer-crimes that are evil in themselves, such as rape, murder, robbery,
arson, and aggravated assault
, mala prohibita - Answer-in contrast to mala in se. crimes such as public drunkenness.
defined as unlawful
criminology - Answer-the study of crime, criminals, and criminal law
Bureau of justice Statistics (BJS) - Answer-this agencies main goal is to furnish an
objective, independent and competent source of police relevant data
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) - Answer-create crime data, jurisdiction of the FBI, all
cities must turn in crime stats to FBI. only crimes reported to police
Violent crimes - Answer-murder and non negligent mansslaughter, rape, robbery, and
aggravated assault, part 1 crimes
property crimes - Answer-burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson. part 2
crimes
crime rate - Answer-calculated by dividing the number of reported crimes byt he number
of people in the country
index offenses - Answer-include the four serious violent crimes, and the four serious
property crimes
The National Incident based Reporting System (NIBRS) - Answer-categorizes crimes
and collects data according to numerous elements
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCBS) - Answer-comes from the BJS based
on the results of intervvies conducted each six months with persons twelve and older in
about 50,000 house holds. Respondents are asked if they have had a crime committed
against them.
self report data - Answer-surveying peple to see if they have ever had a crime
committed against them. done by private corporation, or individual
the national youth survey (NYS - Answer-based on interveiws conducted with
adolecscents over a five year period
Crime classification system (CCS - Answer-surveys victims on the harm suffered to
them by the criminal
National Criminal history improvement program - Answer-awards direct funding and
technical assistant to states to improve the quality of criminal history; improve criminal
record keeping
victim perceptation - Answer-the idea that someone was "asking for it" a crime to the
commited towards them
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