Crim 249 Exam 1 with correct answers 100% 2024
deviance - Correct Answer normative: acts, persons, or conditions that others find offensive, disvalue, or condemn
-depends on social group
crime - Correct Answer action or failure to act that is prohibited by law and subject to legal sanction
...
conflict - Correct Answer -Laws come from powerful groups in society (political, economic, religious,
etc... )
-Meant to maintain their power
interactionist - Correct Answer -Laws come from powerful people ("moral entrepreneurs") who use
labels and the media to target behaviors
-Create laws to support values and interests
Criminology - Correct Answer the scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon
-seeks to explain : law making, law breaking, social reaction to law breaking; characteristics of people
who commit crimes
-focuses on law, punishment, and theory
law, punishment, and theory - Correct Answer what are the disciplines of criminology
scientific law - Correct Answer a factual statement for observations with no known expectations
Example : the law of gravity
scientific theory - Correct Answer a working explanation of observations
, Example : an evidence based guess
hypothesis - Correct Answer a preliminary and testable explanation for how at least two phenomena
are connected
-typically derived from existing theories
macro-level theories - Correct Answer focus on broad patterns, social structures, and crime rates
(places, countries, institutions)
micro-level theories - Correct Answer focus on individuals or groups to explain behaviors
-Funding
-Politics
-Researchers status or beliefs - Correct Answer Research findings should stand for themselves and not
be biased by :
-institutional review board (IRB) approval, human subjects training requirements, confidentiality,
informed consent
-code of federal regulations
-report findings and data
-disclose financial conflicts of interest - Correct Answer what are the research Ethics?
Quantitative - Correct Answer numerical data
-Large representative samples
-Allow for statistical tests and identification of broad patterns (generalizability)
-Costly and often law detail
-Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
-National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
-Self-Report Crime Surveys
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