Exam 2: What Is Crime

With regard to victimizations not reported to police between the years of 2006 and 2010, the crime of ___________ is the least reported crime.

Crimes are acts that are ___________ by criminal law.

Crimes of the powerless are crimes for which those in relatively weak economic and political positions in society are predominantly arrested.

With regard to victimizations not reported to the police between the years of 2006 and 2010, the crime of ___________ is the least reported crime.

___________ theory provides the framework for reconnecting crime and its control with the society from which it is conceptually and institutionally constructed by human agents.

Please provide three examples of 'analogous social injury,' other than any example provided in your text.

Crimes of the ___________ are those crimes committed by people who are in relatively strong legitimate economic and political positions in society.

__________ criminology criticizes the overall kind of society in which we live and suggests we replace it with a socialist system.

___________ theorists believe that there is agreement between most people of all economic, social, and political positions about what behaviors are unacceptable and what should be labeled criminal.

According to cultural conflict theory, ___________ conflict occurs between groups of people who live in the same geographic area but create their own distinct value systems. Where these clash, conflict and norm violations occur.

The term analogous social injury refers to harm caused by acts or conditions that are legal but produce similar consequences to those produced by illegal acts.

What is 'crime' according to constitutive criminologists?

Please describe and compare both the consensus and conflict approaches to the definition of crime. What are any similarities and differences between these two perspectives?

Mala in se crimes are those that have been created by legislative action. These acts involve a social, ecological, and temporal context and may be criminal in one society but not criminal in another.

___________ theorists believe that, when power is determined by wealth, the conflict is considered class-based. Groups that acquire power through political or economic manipulation and exploitation place legal constraints on those without power. Crime is rooted in the vast differences of wealth and power associated with class divisions.

____________ crimes are those that have been created by legislative action. They involve a social, ecological, and temporal context. In fact, these acts may be criminal in one society but not criminal in another.

Civil law gives behavior its quality of criminality. In other words, civil law specifies the acts or omissions that constitute crime.

According to ___________ theory, criminology should not merely focus on crime but also include violations of 'culture norms,' that is, behaviors that are considered standard for a specific cultural group.

According to cultural conflict theory, ___________ conflict occurs when a person raised in one culture is transposed into a different one. This person may follow traditional cultural norms; acting on such traditional norms may violate the norms of the host country.

According to Marxist conflict theory, crime is defined as the activities of those who threaten the powerful. A definition of crime based on economic interests emphasizes that crime and deviance are the inevitable consequences of fundamental contradictions within society's economic infrastructure.