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CRM1300 Exam Study Guide Terms and Questions with 100% Correct Solutions social harm - Answer according to Edwin Sutherland, any illegalities that cause these should be studied by criminologists, whether or not they are defined by criminal law as such social problem - Answer a social condition...

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CRM1300 Exam Study Guide Terms and
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social harm - Answer according to Edwin Sutherland, any illegalities that cause these
should be studied by criminologists, whether or not they are defined by criminal law as
such


social problem - Answer a social condition that is perceived as having harmful effects;
opinions about whether a condition is this vary among groups and depend on how and
by whom the condition is defined and perceived in society


sociological problem - Answer a sociological analysis of how patterns of crime arise from
the interplay of political, economic, social, and ideological structures in society


state - Answer the central political institution of a given society; its major apparatuses
are the government, the legal system, the military, and a variety of public bureaucracies


comparative criminology - Answer the systematic comparison of crime in two or more
cultures


crime rate - Answer the prevalence of crime relative to the size of a population


criminal biographies - Answer usually recorded by ethnographers, these are life-course
data that document criminals' own personal accounts of their activities


historical data - Answer information about crime rates, criminals, and control agencies,
for example, that are derived from official statistics, court records, books, newspapers,
journals, pamphlets, plays, and oral histories

, life-course data - Answer data about patterns of crime collected and interpreted over
the course of offenders' lives, including official crime data, self-reports, psychological
evaluations, IQ tests, criminal histories, court records, incarceration records, and
coroners' reports


life-history data - Answer collection of information to craft a rich document of offenders'
changing personal choices and life experiences over time


official crime data - Answer data collected by the government and its official agencies


participant observation - Answer method whereby an observer more or less covertly
takes part in the activities of a group s/he is studying


positivist criminology - Answer the second great theoretical movement in modern
criminology, its method of analysis is based on the collection of observable scientific
facts, and its aim is to uncover, to explain, and to predict the ways in which observable
facts of crime occur in uniform patterns


unofficial crime data - Answer nongovernmental data usually collected by private or
independent agencies and researches


self-reports - Answer often generated through questionnaires, these are crime data
based on their admissions of illegal or deviant activities by the same individual


victimization surveys - Answer surveys of representative samples of a general
population that try to uncover what crimes have been experienced in a given period

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