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Crimes not reported to the police - Answer-The term "dark figure" refers to? The rise and fall of crime in a particular year - Answer-Crime trends refer to? Postmodern criminology - Answer-This type of criminology is not bound to a particular school of thought and rejects theories based on social class or structure... Aggressive crimes - Answer-According to the Department of Correctional Services this is the highest crime category for sentenced children in South Africa... Conscientio...

dark figure of crime - Answer-A crime that is not reported to the police and that remains unknown to officials and not reflected in statistics personally embarrassing or lack of trust in SAPS violent crime - Answer-murder, robbery social fabric crime - Answer-rape, assault with attempt to do bodily harm, assault property-related crime - Answer-breaking and entering, stock theft, shoplifting commercial crime - Answer-fraud, counterfeiting, embezzlement

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Crimes, criminals, the victims of crime, the adjudication of crimes and the prevention of crime - Answer-Criminology studies what? 1.) Identifying the causes of crime and explaining why these causes are causing crime 2.) Studying the role of socialisation in the occurrence of crime - Answer-The role of the criminologist includes what? We can state that it is a discipline in its own right because it adheres to the criteria for a discipline - Answer-Why can we state that criminology is a di...

crime - Answer-intentional act that violates the law code of crime list - Answer-used for classification of crime in SA crime trends - Answer-the increases and decreases in the different types of crime in a specific year. dark figure of crime - Answer-A crime that is not reported to the police and that remains unknown to officials and not reflected in statistics personally embarrassing or lack of trust in SAPS violent crime - Answer-murder, robbery social fabric crime - Answer-ra...

Guerry and Quetelet - Answer-They contributed significantly to the development of criminological positivism ... Selling drugs - Answer-This type of crime is representative of an instrumental crime. Rape - Answer-This type of crime is representative of an expressive crime. Crimes not reported to the police - Answer-The term "dark figure" refers to? The rise and fall of crime in a particular year - Answer-Crime trends refer to? Postmodern criminology - Answer-This type of crim...

Criminology Is an applied discipline within the human science & its field of study includes the scientific study of crime, offenders & victims , the punishment of offenders & the prevention & control of crime The law Consists of all forms of law (criminal law, common law). A law is a written status enacted by those legislative bodies that have the authority to make laws Common Law Consist of legal rules that were not originally written down, but which have come to be accepted as the la...

CriminologyIs an applied discipline within the human science & its field of study includes the scientific study of crime, offenders & victims , the punishment of offenders & the prevention & control of crime The lawConsists of all forms of law (criminal law, common law). A law is a written status enacted by those legislative bodies that have the authority to make laws Common LawConsist of legal rules that were not originally written down, but which have come to be accepted as the law o...