_______________________ holds that street criminals prey on the poor and
disenfranchised, thus making the poor doubly abused, first by the capitalist system and
then by members of their own class.
How does poverty impact children and minority groups?
Some political criminals conceal conventional criminal motivations behind a mask of
conviction and altruism. These criminals are particularly dangerous because they
convince followers to join them without fully revealing their true motivations. This type
of motivation is termed __________________.
_____________________ offers the principle that becoming a criminal is a learning
process in which potential delinquents and criminals master techniques that enable them
to counterbalance conventional value and drift back and forth between illegitimate and
conventional behavior.
The relationship between impairment in executive brain functions and aggressive
behavior is significant.
Discuss the at least three legal and/or enforcement efforts implemented to control
cybercrime.
Discuss the nature and extent of hate crime. Include in your discussion McDevitt and
Levin’s three motivations for hate crime and the factors known to produce hate crime.
Substance abuse remains a major social problem in the United States. A number of
different drug control strategies have been tried with varying degrees of success.
Differentiate between source control and interdiction strategies.
Social learning theories assume people are born either “bad” or “good” and that their
degree of criminality can be unlearned with proper socialization.
Retreatists reject both the goals and the means of society, while rebels substitute an
alternative set of goals and means for conventional ones.
_______________is a type of indigent defense whereby appointments are made from a
list of private attorneys who accept cases on a judge-by-judge, court-by-court, or
case-by-case basis.
Because of America’s two-decade-long imprisonment boom, more than 700,000 inmates
are now being released back into the community each year.
Active victim precipitation occurs when the victim exhibits some personal
characteristic that unknowingly threatens or encourages the attacker.
The __________________________ refers to agencies of government charged with
enforcing law, adjudicating criminals, and correcting criminal conduct.
Social learning theorists view violence as something learned through a process called
____________________.
Latent delinquency is found in youngsters whose personalities require them to seek
immediate gratification, consider satisfying their personal needs more important than
relating to others, and satisfy instinctive urges without considering right and wrong.