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According to Gottfredson and Hirschi's general theory of crime, the propensity to
commit crime is tied directly to a person's level of _______________.
Illegal logging costs billions of dollars each year in governments revenue, impairing the
ability of third world nations to provide needed social services.
Define cyber-spying and discuss the motivations by those who engage in this behavior.
Identify the community-level factors that are associated with fear and describe how
these factors contribute to the level of fear in a neighborhood.
Developmental theories attempt to provide a more global vision of a criminal career,
encompassing its onset, persistence, and desistence.
Identify and describe the principles of Sutherland's differential association theory.
The Convention on Cybercrime is an international treaty that addresses the definition
and enforcement of transnational crime groups.
___________________ theory focuses on the conditions within the urban environment
that affect crime rates.
Criminologists who focus their attention on crime victims refer to themselves as
_______________.
The consensus view of crime links illegal behavior to the concept of
________________________.
Placing offenders behind bars during their prime crime years should lessen their
lifetime opportunity to commit crime.
Describe three ways the FBI and Homeland Security have responded to the threat of
terrorism.
Describe how the Uniform Crime Report is compiled and the validity concerns
associated with this method of measuring crime.
Children who are physically punished by their parents are less likely to physically abuse
others or engage in other forms of criminal violence because they reject the modeling of
aggression.
The Supreme Court in ____________________________ gave inmates the right to
secure proper medical attention.
Describe how the National Crime Victimization Survey is compiled and the validity
concerns associated with this method of measuring crime.
Phishing is also known as spoofing and is defined as creating false e-mails or websites
that look legitimate but are designed to gain illegal access to a victim's personal
information.
Some paraphilias, such as wearing clothes normally worn by the opposite sex, can be
engaged in by adults in the privacy of their homes and do not involve a third party;
these are usually out of the law's reach.
The NCVS indicates that rural, white homes in the Northeast are the most likely to
contain crime victims or to be the target of theft offenses, such as burglary or larceny.
