CJ/CSI Unit 1

This involves the unlawful taking of another's property.

This is a punishment that is considered deserved.

Process by which individuals acquire a personal identity and learn appropriate norms, values, behavior, social skills

Which behavior does not fit into the category of crimes against the public order?

The classical school of criminology is based, in part, on the work of this scholar.

Hooton's physiology-based theory is widely used in the criminal justice system.

The number of Crime Index offenses divided by the population of an area is called the ____________.

This involves the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft.

This technique sought to measure personality by measuring the size and pattern of bumps on the skull.

Nuisance-type offenses that reflect quality of life concerns for many people are called ________.

According to Sykes and Matza, two neutralization techniques are denial of injury and denial of victim.

The most severe penalties are reserved for those who commit offenses against the public order.

The social institution that controls crime by detecting, detaining, adjudicating, and punishing and/or rehabilitating.

The criminal justice system has a single goal, with different aspects of the system emphasizing this goal.

More white-collar and corporate offenses go unnoticed and unrecorded than street offenses.

Freud contended that personality is composed of three parts:

Often, people who fear crime the most are those least in danger of encountering it.

These laws hold that defendants convicted of a 3rd serious/violent felony may be sent to prison for long terms or life.

Specific deterrrence occurs when an offender is caught and punished, and the rest of us don't break the law as a result

The primary institution of socialization is the family.

This theory asks not why offenders break the criminal law, but why most people do not.

The Uniform Crime Reports provide a useful picture of crime in the United States.

Critical race theory is based on the observation that people of color are overrepresented at every point in CJ system.

Someday, criminologists will discover the dark figure of crime.

Police officers, prosecutors, judges, and corrections officials use this to decide which cases are moved forward.

Most criminal justice activity for the courts is at the state level.

Sheldon used this term to describe his three variations of the body.

Of all arrests made, only a percentage result in a person being charged with a crime and funneled into the CJ system.

A victim may not want to report a crime for several reasons.

Theory that stated that people are guided by desire for pleasure and aversion to pain.

The media are agents of social control.

"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise, infamous crime, unless by indictment of a grand jury."

State or federal institution that confines people convicted of crime who are serving sentences longer than 1 year.

This criminologist's theory espoused free will and punishment based on humane principles.

The criminal justice system must balance the preservation of social order with the preservation of individual rights.

Which of these is a goal of the criminal justice system?

Action taken by a person or group that violates the rules of society:

The theory that behavior is determined by rewards and punishments is called _____.

Most of law enforcement's authority exists at the ______ level

Cesare Lombroso believed that body type determined behavior.