Criminal Behavior - Quiz #1

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  1. 2. crime that in the US is punishable by less than one year in jail
  2. 6. usefulness of a theory to inform guidance for reducing crime
  3. 7. punishment aim that emphasizes the threat of negative consequences
  4. 8. Source of crime statistics in the US based on victimization survey data
  5. 12. perspectives in criminology that attempt to explain crime by focusing on the use of law as a tool to criminalize behaviors
  6. 14. characteristic of good theory; support by real world data
  7. 17. the extent of crime that does not get reported to police
  8. 19. condition that needs to be controlled for to prove causality in a theory
  9. 22. major serious crime that does not get reported in victimization survey
  10. 24. punishment aim that emphasizes the need to treat underlying causes that lead to crime
  11. 25. punishment aim that focuses on removing people's ability to commit crime
  12. 26. the phenomenon that prisons have the effect of increasing people's inclinations to commit crimes
  13. 28. school of thought in criminology that emphasizes the role of free will
Down
  1. 1. characteristic of a good theory; ability to prove it right or wrong
  2. 2. behaviors that need to be criminalized in order to be punishable as crimes
  3. 3. drug use is an illustration of this type of crime
  4. 4. theory in the correctional field that asserts that prisons exacerbates criminal inclinations because of the harshness of the prison environment
  5. 5. Agency in Japan in charge of collecting official crime statistics
  6. 9. Major bias in crime statistics based on reporting of crime in surveys by people asked about crime involvement
  7. 10. condition that needs to exist to prove causality of a theory
  8. 11. Major source of official crime statistics in the US, collected by FBI
  9. 13. characteristic of good theory; ability to predict future behavior and crime patters
  10. 15. school of thought in criminology that emphasizes the role of external factors
  11. 16. theory in the correctional field that asserts that prison exacerbates criminal inclinations because they aggregate negative features that people bring in the prison setting
  12. 18. way of reporting crime statistics that accounts for population size
  13. 20. characteristic of a good theory; simplicity
  14. 21. crime that in the US is punishable by one year or longer in prison
  15. 23. inherently wrong acts
  16. 27. punishment aim that focuses on providing emotional satisfaction to victims