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Criminology Exam #3
Exam 3
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Criminology
Undergraduate 2
04/07/2012

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Involved in a racially-charged hate crime (murder) in Jasper, Texas.
Definition
James Byrd
Term
These three men rode around in a pickup truck on June 7, 1998, drinking beer and looking for women.
Definition
Bill King, Russell Brewer, Shawn Berry
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Date of James Byrd's Death
Definition
June 7, 1998
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After offering this passenger a ride, three bigots forced him out of the truck, beat him up, and spray painted his face black. Then they dragged him behind the truck for more than 2 miles, decapitating him along the way.
Definition
James Byrd
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James Byrd was chosen because __________, but it wasn't personal, it could have been any _____________.
Definition
He was black, black man
Term
Hate Crimes
Definition
Hate or bias crimes are violent acts directed toward a particular person or members of a group merely because the targets share a discernible racial, ethnic, religious, or gender characteristic.
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Hate or bias crimes are violent acts directed toward a particular person or members of a group merely because the targets share a discernible racial, ethnic, religious, or gender characteristic.
Definition
Hate crime
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Harlow's definition of a hate crime
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"An ordinary crime becomes a hate crime when offenders choose a victim because of some characteristic -- for example, race, ethnicity, or religion -- and provide evidence that hate prompted them to commit the crime."
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"An ordinary crime becomes a hate crime when offenders choose a victim because of some characteristic -- for example, race, ethnicity, or religion -- and provide evidence that hate prompted them to commit the crime."
Definition
Harlow's definition of a hate crime
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Culture of Hate (Levin & McDevitt)
Definition
A person's group affiliation continues to provide a basis for dehumanizing and insulting treatment.
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A person's group affiliation continues to provide a basis for dehumanizing and insulting treatment.
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Culture of hate (Levin & McDevitt)
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Hatred is expressed in mass culture through:
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Art, music, religion, and humor.
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Types of Hate Crimes
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Thrill seeking, defensive, and mission
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Thrill seeking Hate Crimes
Definition
Most common type. No precipitating incident, looking to harass those who are "different", psychological thrill of making someone suffer, social payoff of friend approval. Happens in groups.
Term
Two high school students asked two other students, one from India and one from Japan, for directions and let them come up to their truck. They then punched them in the face and drove off, looking for more international students to harass. What type of crime is this?
Definition
Thrill-Seeking Hate Crime
Term
What is the interchangeability of victims?
Definition
Any victim may be selected within a group for torture or abuse. The hate crime does not signal a personal vendetta but rather a blanket hate of a large group.
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Defensive Hate Crimes
Definition
Reaction to what the perpetrator considers a precipitating or triggering incident to serve as a catalyst for the expression of their anger.
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Target
Definition
A particular individual or set of individuals involved in a defensive hate crime who are perceived to constitute threat.
Term
Defensive hate crimes are characterized by a sense of ______
Definition
entitlement
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Mission Hate Crimes
Definition
An attack carried out by individuals with a mission, seeking to rid the world of "evil" by disposing a member of a despised group. Perpetrator believes he/she has a higher purpose in carrying out the crime.
Term
Rarest form of hate crime
Definition
Mission hate crimes
Term
_______ criminals seek to eliminate the "entire category" of an undesired group.
Definition
Mission hate
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In 1989, Marc Lepine ordered male students at the University of Montreal Engineering School to leave. He then proceeded to shoot the remaining females, expressing a hatred for all women. What type of crime is this?
Definition
Mission hate crime
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Hate Crime Statistics' definition of a hate crime
Definition
"Crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity"
Term
"All persons within the US shall have the right to be free from crimes of violence motivated by gender." -- ___________
Definition
Violence Against Women Act (1994)
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Expands 1969 federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
Definition
2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act
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2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act
Definition
Expands 1969 federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
Term
What did the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes prevention act expand the 1969 federal hate crime law to include?
Definition
Crimes motivated by a victim's gender identity or disability.
Term
In 1997, the NCVS developed questions to identify victims of _______.
Definition
Hate Crimes
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NCVS hate crime definition
Definition
"those incidents in which victims believe the offender selected them for a victimization because of one or more of their personal characteristics."
Term
NCVS Types of Hate Crime
Definition
Racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, disability
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NCVS definition requires ___________ of hate motivation at the incident. Give 3 examples of this:
Definition
Corroborating evidence. 1) The offender used derogatory language 2) The offender left hate symbols 3) The police conformed a hate crime had taken place.
Term
Langton and Planty determined that:
Definition
The rate of violent hate crime has decreased from 2003-2009.
Term
____________ are the primary factors to be targeted for a hate crime (from the victim's perspective)
Definition
Race & ethnicity
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In ____% of the crimes, hate language (racial epithets) were used.
Definition
98%
Term
Who had higher crime victimization rates: males or females?
Definition
Males
Term
People of 2 or more races had the _______ hate crime victimization of any race.
Definition
Highest
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Public order crimes
Definition
Category of crimes also called consensual crimes, vice crimes, and victimless crimes.
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Category of crimes also called consensual crimes, vice crimes, and victimless crimes.
Definition
Public order of crimes
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This type of crime involves the dilemma of policing morality vs protection of society.
Definition
Public order crimes
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Two opposing viewpoints of public order crimes
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Policing morality vs protection of society -- these crimes are only hurting the offenders, OR these crimes are hurting others as well (such as families)
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Consensual criminals are often led to commit _____.
Definition
Other types of crime
Term
How do laws against consensual crime do more harm than good?
Definition
-Influence police/official corruption
-Lead consensual offenders to commit other types of crime
-Generate public disrespect for the law
-Divert time, energy, and money away from more serious crimes
-Provide revenue for organized crime
Term
_____ is common in contemporary USA.
Definition
Drug use
Term
When underage minors consume alcohol illegally, it is considered a _____.
Definition
Status offense
Term
What percent of high school seniors used alcohol in the past year?
Definition
66%
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What percent of college students drank alcohol in the past year?
Definition
82%
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What percent of college students reported binge drinking within 2 weeks?
Definition
44%
Term
____% of persons age 12+ have used an illegal drug at least once in their lifetime. Mostly _____.
Definition
45%, marijuana
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Drugs are used ____ now than they were in the 1970s.
Definition
Less
Term
What is the connection between economic deprivation and drug use?
Definition
Less economic resources have less private access to drugs, leading to more incarceration/punishment
Term
Borgois' book on drug selling
Definition
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
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How much do crack dealers earn, according to Borgois?
Definition
7-8$ per hour, with exceptional nights
Term
What is the pull of crack dealing in poor working conditions versus other low-wage work?
Definition
Seen as a kind of dignity that is impossible to achieve in conventional low-wage work.
Term
Name the approaches to legalization.
Definition
Alcohol model, lassiez-faire model, decriminalize certain drugs
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Do drugs cause crime?
Definition
There is a strong correlation between illegal drug use and other types of crime.
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Laissez-faire model
Definition
Hands off, no state control
Term
Decriminalizing certain drugs
Definition
Decriminalizing some drugs but not all - decriminalizing certain drugs like possession of marijuana
Term
Pro-legalization arguments (8)
Definition
-Drug laws create crime and problems they are intended to stop
-Drug laws cost money to enforce
-Drug laws fill prisons
-Drug laws create disrespect for the law
-Drug laws are good for organized crime
-Drug laws create opportunity for official corruption
-Tax - money used to prevent more drug use
-Civil liberties
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Anti-legalization argument
Definition
Drug laws reduce the use of illegal drugs
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Harm-reduction policies
Definition
Take a public-health approach to the problem, seeing users as people who need help. Goal is to reduce harm involved in these activities, like using sterile needles, etc
Term
What are benefits of higher-paid prostitution jobs (call girl) vs low-paid prostitution jobs (street walker)?
Definition
-Call girls know who is a safe client
-Call girls can work behind closed doors
-Streetwalkers do not have as much protection
-Streetwalkers must work in public
Term
What is the Chesney-Lind model of entering prostitution?
Definition
1) Leave home environment in hopes of a better one.
2) Find themselves on the street
3) Engage in survival sex
Term
Histories of __________ and patterns of ________ lead to prostitution.
Definition
Abuse, running away
Term
Name 4 pathways into prostitution.
Definition
1) Runaways (street prostitutes)
2) Recruited by pimps
3) Drifting into prostitution
4) Working in other branches of the sex industry (strip clubs) and later experimenting with prostitution
Term
Streetworker vs. Indoor Sex Worker samples comparing groups found that victimization proportions are higher among which group?
Definition
Streetworkers
Term
How might off-street workers be less protected than street workers?
Definition
More vulnerable away from the public eye (i.e. hotel rooms) but less risk customers.
Term
Street workers spend _____ time with the customers, but call-girls develop a ______ relationship.
Definition
Little, long-term
Term
All sex workers endure a stigma that requires them to:
Definition
Compartmentalize their real selves from the selves that engage in prostitution.
Term
What was the predominant focus of the 2009 Weitzer study on prostitution?
Definition
Female, illegal street workers
Term
What are under researched topics in prostitution today?
Definition
Customers and managers, male and transgendered workers, indoor prostitution, legal prostitution
Term
Name of professor who studied the implications of professional wrestling in Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying, and Battering
Definition
Sut Jhally
Term
Wrestling is described as a ____ for men.
Definition
Soap opera
Term
Much of the wrestling dialogue focuses on ______ and being a _____.
Definition
Manhood, being a man
Term
Gay wrestlers are not considered _____ in the world of wrestling. Thus, being gay is the ultimate ______.
Definition
Real men, humiliation
Term
_____ of women is common/normal in the wrestling world.
Definition
Sexual degredation
Term
Stone Cold Steve Austin
Definition
The most powerful bully in wrestling, ultimately couldn't separate personal and ring life, wife called police on assault charge.
Term
_____ was told to get on her knees and bark like a dog, ______ sexual harassment.
Definition
Trish, glamourizing
Term
Thrasher's 1927 novel
Definition
The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago
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Thrasher's definition of gang's and it's importance
Definition
-"A gang is an interstitial group originally formed spontaneously and then integrated through conflict."
-Important: explicit illegal activity is not mentioned.
Term
Miller (1970) defined a gang in terms of _____ and _____.
Definition
Organizational characteristics and dynamics
Term
Give the 4 tenets of Miller's gang structure.
Definition
-Mutual interest with clearly defined leadership
-Well-developed lines of authority
-Desire to achieve a purpose
-Primarily the conduct of illegal activity, looking for control over territory or enterprise (struggle for dominance)
Term
Finn-Aage Esbensen's elements of classifying a group as a gang
Definition
-Using colors or symbols to define the group
-Specific geographical areas (neighborhoods)
-Age 12-24
-Involvement in illegal activity is a central element
Term
2 Organizational features of urban gangs
Definition
Vertical/Hierarchical
Horizontal
Term
The Bloods/Crips are _____ type of urban gang
Definition
Horizontal
Term
What was different about the gangs in Patillo's "Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers?"
Definition
-Focus on higher income neighborhoods instead of ghetto
-Coexistence of gang members with top officials
Term
Groveland theory on social organization and gangs
Definition
Stability and dense networks facilitate social control but do not prevent gang behavior.
Term
6% of crime perpetrators are also _____.
Definition
Known to be gang members
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3 types of Gender Organization of Gangs
Definition
1) Mixed gender gang - most common
2) female gangs affiliated with male gangs (auxiliary gangs)
3) independent female gangs (least common)
Term
Females in gangs are sometimes much _____ than males not involved in gangs.
Definition
More violent
Term
Youth involved in gangs are more likely than youth not involved in gangs to participate in _____.
Definition
Delinquency
Term
Cycle of Violence Hypothesis [Widom]
Definition
When abused children become abusers and when victims of violence become violent offenders
Term
Cycle of violence can refer to 2 types of behavior:
Definition
1) abuse as a child leading to abuse as a parent
2) child abuse leading to delinquent behaviors
Term
Consider correlation vs. causation in regards to the cycle of violence theory.
Definition
Just because you are a victim does not automatically mean you will become an offender yourself.
Term
Widom's definition of physical abuse
Definition
When an individual "knowingly and willfully inflicted unnecessary severe corporal punishment" or "unnecessary physical suffering" upon a child or children -- i.e. striking, kicking, punching, biting, throwing, or burning.
Term
Sexual abuse
Definition
Involves a variety of charges ranging from relatively non-specific ones "assault and battery to with intent to gratify sexual desires" to more specific and detailed charges of "fondling and touching in an obscene manner."
Term
Neglect
Definition
Refers to cases in which the court found a child to have no proper parent care or guardianship
Term
Widom's study design is notable because:
Definition
-Prospective study (not retrospective)
-Separate abused and neglected groups
-Followed children into adulthood
-Matched cohort design
Term
Summarize Widom's findings.
Definition
-Through multivariate analyses found that those who had experienced physical abuse and neglect showed higher levels of violence in adulthood
-Those who had been sexually abused did NOT show violence in adulthood
-Support for cycle of violence limited to physical abuse and neglect, not sexual abuse
Term
Johnson's two types of intimate partner violence
Definition
1) Patriarchal Terrorism
2) Common couple violence
Term
Patriarchal terrorism
Definition
systematically controlling the partner, including physical violence, social isolation, and economic dependency (men)
Term
Common Couple Violence
Definition
conflict escalates in the home environment, possibly getting out of hand; something like hitting or slapping out of anger
Term
__________ is seen in common couple violence
Definition
Gender equality
Term
When adults in the household have been victimized, risk of child victimization _____.
Definition
Increases
Term
Indirect victimization: example
Definition
A child seeing his father hit his mother.
Term
Routine activities theory
Definition
More interaction in the home leads to more violence
Term
Types of violence
Definition
-Intimate partner/domestic violence
-Parent to child maltreatment
-sibling maltreatment
Term
Key: Family as Social Institution
Definition
The modern family as an institution is insulated from the eyes, ears, and rules of modern society, social control can be quite low
Term
General strain theory (Agnew) expands:
Definition
Relationship between stress and family violence
Term
A crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation
Definition
Sutherland White Collar Crime
Term
Occupational vs. Organizational White Collar Crime
Definition
Committed with the support of the organization, for gain of the corporation.
Term
Occupational Crime
Definition
-Employee theft and pilferage (dissatisfaction)
-Fraud in professions: overbilling
-Financial fraud: insider trading
-Police and political corruption
Term
Organizational Crime (Corporate crime)
Definition
-Financial: corporate fraud, cheating, corruption (Enron)
-Violence: workers in unsafe places, consumers and unsafe products
Term
Ford Pinto Scandal
Definition
Put on the market in 1979, had a defective gas tank that would burst into flames when cars were rear ended. 1/3 of the cost to let people die rather than fix it.
Term
Street crime only costs ____ billion, but white collar crime costs _____ billion.
Definition
10, 800
Term
Deaths are higher for _____ crime than ____ crime.
Definition
White collar, street
Term
3 Features of White Collar Offenses
Definition
Legitimate access, spatial separation, superficial access of legitimacy
Term
3 Techniques for committing white collar crime
Definition
Deception, abuse of trust, concealment and conspiracy
Term
5 forms of contemporary terrorism:
Definition
Revolutionary, political, nationalist, environmental, state-sponsored
Term
Revolutionary terrorism
Definition
Use violence to frighten those in power to replace the existing government with a regime with ‘acceptable’ religious or political views. Ex: Timothy Bay building where he detonated an explosive truck infront of a lobby which killed 170ish people, and injured 680 or so people.
Term
Political terrorism
Definition
Directed at groups who oppose the terrorists’ political ideology
Term
Nationalist terrorism
Definition
Promotes the interests of a minority group that has been prosecuted under majority rule--- Group wished to carve out its own piece of land etc.
Term
Cause-based terrorism
Definition
e.g. Al Queda --- jihad or religious war, declared against U.S.
Term
Environmental terrorism
Definition
Ski operator wanted to expand into animal habitats, some group ended up setting fires to stop the ski lift expansion, which ended up costing 12 million dollars in damage.
Term
State sponsored terrorism
Definition
Forces its opposers into obedience.
Term
Turk: 3 Images of Terrorism
Definition
Social construction, political violence, form of communication
Term
Turk: social construction of terrorism
Definition
-Interpretation of events
-Stigmatization between groups in conflict
Term
Turk: Political violence
Definition
- Terrorism: is “the deliberate targeting of more or less randomly selected victims whose deaths and injuries are expected to weaken the opponent’s will to persist in political conflict.” (p.248)
- Political motivation NOT economic distress
Term
Turk: form of communication
Definition
- Terrorism is a communication through violence that problems exist.
- Implies peaceful efforts have failed, violence as way to redress grievances
- Censorship: Pros/cons
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