Louisiana has officially adopted the common law of England as the basis for their system
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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Which of the following is NOT one of the 19 categories of transnational crime?
a. Airplane hijacking b. Insurance fraud c. Genocide d. Environmental crime
Which of the following would best describe a prevention effort advocated by a social structure theorist?
a. midnight basketball leagues to keep youths busy and occupied at night b. adult mentors working with at risk youths to provide prosocial role models c. increasing the penalties for delinquency to deter would be offenders d. community redevelopment including educational programs and job training
Discuss Edwin H. Sutherland's definition of criminology and why criminology can be described as a multidiscipline.
What will be an ideal response?
Match the key words or phrases with the associated phrase
1. sociological perspective a. society ranking different groups of people 2. structural criminology b. result of personal biography with historical and social conditions 3. vertical social structure c. behavior that violates social norms and receives negative social reactions 4. private troubles d. understanding crime with specific attention to the issues of poverty, race, and ethnicity, as well as the structure of communities and social relationships 5. criminology e. unwritten and informal social norms 6. customs f. social and physical characteristics of communities and the networks of social relationships 7. entrapment g. focuses on the idea that people are social beings more than mere individuals 8. deviance h. situations where a crime is committed because law enforcement agents induced the offender to do so 9. experiments i. the study of crime and criminal justice 10. horizontal social structure j. less common way to obtain data in criminology and sociology than in psychology