CJ 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Excessive Bail Clause, Truancy, Bench Trial

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 100
• Professor: All

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The influences that impel one toward or away from crime and 2. Offenses prohibited by law but not wrong in themselves such as gambling and drug use: what are some of the criticisms of the ways in which crime is measured in the united. Ucr- based on voluntary reports to the fbi by local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Ncvs- interviews of samples of the u. s. population conducted by the bureau of justice statistics to determine the number and types of criminal victimization, and thus, the extent of unreported as well as reported crime. Risk of lethal violence is much higher in the us than in other well established, industrial democracies, but is much lower than in industrialized countries. Lower class suffers from poverty and good education; lacks good housing and political power. Biological- identification/treatment or control of persons prone to rime, incapacitation, intensive supervision.