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Identify four findings of the most recent national survey conducted by the National
White Collar Crime Center with concern to white-collar crime.
The subarea of criminal statistics involves measuring the amount and trends of criminal
activity.
Discuss the overall crime trend for violent and property crimes in the United States
according to the UCR and NCVS. What, if any, difference is there between the UCR,
NCVS and self report findings with regard to the overall crime problem.
Of all state political crimes, the use of torture to gain information from suspected
political criminals is perhaps the most notorious. Discuss its justification and the
Constitutional arguments of critics who oppose the use of torture and detainment.
Discuss the four basic concepts in common between routine activities theory and the
lifestyle approach and provide three predictions shared by both theories.
____________ suggests that some people may actually initiate the confrontation that
eventually leads to their injury or death.
Most stalking incidents emerge from preexisting relationships and about half emerge
specifically from romantic relationships.
What is anomie and what are the conditions that cause anomie?
The Minneapolis domestic violence study showed that arresting offenders was an
ineffective means of reducing recidivism.
Discuss three critiques of critical criminology.
Identify the patterns of behavior and symptoms of ADHD and discuss how ADHD is
associated with crime.
Victim-offender reconciliation programs (VORPs) use mediators to facilitate
face-to-face encounters between victims and their attackers.
Discuss the foundations of trait theory and why these views are no longer accepted.
Persistent offenders are referred to as __________ or __________.
The consensus view states that criminal laws are acts created to protect the haves from
the have-nots.
Monitoring the Future (MTF) data indicate that the number of people who break the
law is far greater than the number projected by official statistics.
____________________________ are the morally tinged influences which have
become entrenched in the culture but are publicly condemned.
Subcultural values are handed down from one generation to the next in a process called
cultural transmission.
Cybercrime is a new breed of offenses that involves the theft and/or destruction of
information, resources, or funds utilizing computers, computer networks, or the
Internet.
