Exam 2: Measuring and Explaining Crime

More than______ of all prison and jail inmates in the United States have mental health problems.

Chemical messages known as__________ have been linked to criminal activity.

Jane and her family moved to a new apartment in a high-crime neighborhood. The community has higher high school drop-out rates, vast unemployment, and many single-parent families. Jane starts committing even more crime. What theory would best explain Jane's criminal behavior?

UCR Part I offenses include attempted as well as completed crimes.

A proposition that can be tested by researchers to determine if it is valid is a:

According to Jack Katz, the emotional or sensual rush a criminal experiences upon the successful completion of a crime is referred to as:

What is the newest variation on crime?

There are potential criminal penalties for subjects who admit to criminal activity in a self-reported survey.

Medical drugs that require a physician's permission for purchase are ________.

____________regulates perceptions of pleasure and reward.

Dopamine is considered a _____________, responsible for delivering pleasure signals to brain nerve endings in response behaviors that make us feel good.

Compare and contrast Part I and Part II crimes of the UCR Reports.

Criminologists focusing on sociology have argued that________ are the most important variable in predicting criminal behavior.

What is meant by "the dark figure of crime"? Are there sources that help to reveal this "dark figure"?

Young African American males from urban neighborhoods are the most common victims of crime.

The number of women in prisons and jails is_______ over time.

Discuss how race, ethnicity, and poverty are related to crime.

The UCR is prepared by:

Robert Merton believed that __________is caused by a social structure in which all citizens have similar goals without equal means to achieve them.

Case 2-2 Mayor Smith is the newly elected mayor of Anytown, USA. He is concerned with the increasing crimes rates in his city. He schedules a meeting with Chief Gomez, who has been the chief of the police department since 1990. He plans to discuss crime trends and ways to collect data to be able to measure the overall crime rate in Anytown, USA. -Mayor Smith asks what specific information is measured by this report. Chief Gomez explains that the report measures all of the following except: