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__________: behavior by persons that intentionally threatens, attempts, or actually inflicts physical harm
- correct answer ✔✔violence
criminal violence is violence prohibited by _________ _______ - correct answer ✔✔criminal law
what constitutes criminal violence? - correct answer ✔✔violence becomes criminal through the passage
of LAWS; criminal violence is a CRIMINAL behavior
why are the penalties and definitions of criminal violence always changing? - correct answer ✔✔because
LAWS are always changing
what are the 4 major types of violence defined by the FBI? - correct answer ✔✔criminal homicide,
aggravated assault, robbery, and forcible rape
____________: model for determining laws where people agree on what is right and wrong (agree on
social norms and morals) - correct answer ✔✔consensus model
____________: model for determining laws where people with political and economic power make laws
to protect their interests while keeping the poor disadvantaged - correct answer ✔✔conflict model
example of consensus model laws - correct answer ✔✔laws about murder, rape, etc. (reflect the norms
of the people collectively)
example of conflict model laws - correct answer ✔✔drug crimes, public disorder crimes, etc. (reflect the
norms of dominant class)
,how is violence socially constructed? - correct answer ✔✔our perception of violence becomes a social
problem as a result of our interactions with others
give examples of the social construction of violence - correct answer ✔✔halloween candy with razors,
proliferation of serial killers, poisoned medicine
what causes the social construction of violence? - correct answer ✔✔mass hysteria and fear make
people perceive these problems greater than they are
what are some methods of studying criminal violence? - correct answer ✔✔official statistics,
victimization studies, interviews, participant observation/ethnography
what are the challenges of studying violence? - correct answer ✔✔- legal definitions vary and change
- many forms of serious violence are statistically rare
- not easy to observe bc of settings
- many go unreported
- sometimes normalized for certain groups
- offenders have motive to conceal violence
what are the 3 major forms of crime data? - correct answer ✔✔official data, victimization data, and self-
report data
____________: data that is typically based on police reports or other official agency - correct answer
✔✔official data
what are examples of official data? - correct answer ✔✔uniform crime rate (UCR) and national incident-
based reporting system (NIBRS)
______________: data where it is surveys about a person's experiences with victimization - correct
answer ✔✔victimization data
what is an example of victimization data? - correct answer ✔✔national crime victimization survey (NCVS)
, ___________: data that is usually based on surveys asking people about their offending behavior -
correct answer ✔✔self-report data
what is an example of self-report data? - correct answer ✔✔monitoring the future (MTF)
basic information about the uniform crime report (UCR) - correct answer ✔✔- run by the FBI, stated in
the 1930s
- collects data from agencies
- annual report - crime in the united states
- takes information from monthly aggregate counts
the UCR measures crimes that are... - correct answer ✔✔known to the POLICE
what are the two classes of data reported in UCR data? - correct answer ✔✔- part I - 8 index crimes
- part II - other crimes
for the part I data for the UCR, the _______ data (data known to police) and _______ data (data about
the arrestees) is published; for the part II data, only the ________ data is published - correct answer
✔✔offense data and arrest data; arrest data
what are the 4 violent offences for the index crimes? - correct answer ✔✔- criminal homicide
- robbery
- forcible rape
- aggravated assault
what are the 4 property offences for the index crimes? - correct answer ✔✔- larceny theft
- burglary
- auto theft
- arson
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