Criminology Test

Criminology last year

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Conflict in pre-modern societies

What people fought over women, theft laziness murder and improper food distribution

Common law

Approach to the law that sought uniformity and was based on precedent

Magna Carta

That the laws should apply to everyone including kings and queens.

Stare Decisis

Using precedent in prior cases to determine currect action for the new case

Chart on societies and punishment

Dark Ages

Definition of crime

Violation of the law, doesn't always involve breaking the law

Capital Punishment

Only way Canada killed people was by hanging

Carter of Rights and Freedom

Nineteen eighty two, protects people rights

Selective incapacitiation

Labelling people as dangerous offenders.

Mala in se

Crimes that are evil in nature, murder

Mala Prohibita

Crimes that exists because we have made it illegal, Jay walking

Men's Rea

Refers to the guilty mind, understanding what you did was wrong

Excuse defences

Age, automatism, NCRMD, mistake of law and fact involuntary intoxication

Conspiracy

When two or more people agree to commit a crime

Necessity

Legal defence where you commit a crime in order to stop a more serious harm from happening

NCRMD

Not criminally responsible on account for mental health disorder

Classical and positivist school

Classical, Classic freewill + Positivist, Rehabilitation

Discreation

When law informants decides who they want to arrest

Panopticon

Tree hundred and sixty degree prison with cells

Three elements of crime

Public Harm, Penalty, Prohibition

Criminal Justice Agencies and Responsibilities

Jobs of police, Courts and corrections

Police strength

For every two police officers there are one thousand crimes in Canada

CJS expenditures

Two point one billion dollars were spent in twenty eleven

Specific VS General deterrance

Specific- Individual, General- Society

Moral Panic

A fear in society that something is a threat or public safety

Moral crusades

Companion

Most common Offences

Theft, Assault, BandE, Mischief, Breach

Crime Rates in Canada are established by

Self-Report survey, Victimization Survey, UCR

Five Purposes of criminal Data

DEERP, Description, Evaluation, Explanation, Risk assessment, Prediction

Dark Figure of cirme

Police reports vs, What actually happened

Age and crime

Youth Boys commit most crimes

Maturation reform

The olde you get the less crimes you commit

Sex and Crime

Mens commit more assault, women commit petty theft and fraud

Routine and Active Theory

Victim blaming

Crime correlates Three that are not connected to

Athletic Build, Skull Shape

Starlight tours

Police take indigenous men, without coats leave them in middle of no where at midnight to freeze to death

Victimization Rates

Men have a higher rate of violent crimes

Aboriginal and incarceration rates

Disproportion

Crime and reporting

Sexual Assault least reported crime

Most common fear of crime

B+E

Substance use and Crime

Fifty percent of people are drunk