Midterm Review
Across
- 2. A principle of sentencing or punishment intended to discourage citizens from offending or reoffending
- 4. A school of thought that attributed criminal behaviour to biological or psychological factors; often referred to as the Italian school
- 5. A school of thought that argued that people have the capacity to think rationally; contemporary deterrence theory is rooted in this school of thought.
- 8. Less serious criminal offences (e.g., theft under $5000), which generally result in a maximum sentence of 6 months imprisonment or a $5000 fine.
- 12. members of society who have wealth, power, and political clout, plus the time and energy to pursue moral crusades
- 14. A neurotransmitter related to low self-control and aggressive-impulsive behaviour
- 16. Goddard's heredity study of two different family trees, fathered by the same man
- 17. the idea that exposure to media has an effect on behaviour
- 18. Twins that share 100% of the 1% of DNA that explains variation in characteristics
- 19. Variation between the number of crimes that occur and the number of crimes actually reported to the police.
- 20. A perspective which argues that the identification, coding, and counting of crime is an inherently social process
Down
- 1. A term used in the 19th century to describe individuals with low intelligence or low IQ
- 3. Violation of social norms or expectations, rather than a violation of a codified (written) law
- 4. A media frame which generates a narrative that is easily understood by the public and viewed unequivocally as bad
- 6. Degree to which behaviour of MZ and DZ twins is similar
- 7. Model of moral panics which argues that small, powerful groups deliberately set out to create moral panics, in order to divert public attention away from truly serious social problems
- 8. Refers to the notion that improvements in home security devices and motor vehicle anti-theft devices have brought some crime rates down
- 9. Literally translated means "you have the body"
- 10. Criminal intent, or mental culpability, sometimes referred to as the "guilty mind"
- 11. study of the shape and size of the skull as an indication of character and mental abilities
- 13. Acts that are illegal because they are prohibited
- 15. Refers to crime moving from the real world into cyberspace, which may help to explain why traditional crime rates appear to be going down.