| A | B |
|---|
| instrumental crimes | criminal acts to improve criminals' financial or social position |
| expressive crimes | criminal acts that vent rage, anger or frustration |
| liberal feminist theory | women suffer disadvantages due to their gender |
| racial threat hypothesis | as minority population grows, males subjected to more police control |
| career criminals | repeat criminal offenders organized their lives around criminality |
| chronic offenders | juvenile delinquents arrested five or more times before age 18 |
| early onset | young kids likely to become repeat offenders due to personal/social problems they were exposed to |
| three-strike laws | sentencing offenders to life prison sentences after the third felony conviction |
| truth in sentencing laws | convicted felons will spend most of their sentence in prison |
| teenagers | social group responsible for most criminal activity |
| sexual assault | crime likely committed by known perpetrators |
| ecology of crime | studying the affect of climate/ecological factors on crime rates |
| quality of life | police target and prosecute petty crimes to prevent bigger issues |
| Brazil | country with highest homicide rates |
| home security | factor in reducing burglary rates |
| alcohol | common factor in leading to higher violent crime rates |
| drug abuse | common factor in leading to higher violent crime rates |
| recidivism | released prisoners eventually return to prison |
| abortion | possible cause of crime rate drop, fewer criminals born |
| medical technology | results in fewer muders with better emergency medical services |
| self-report surveys | criminals attest to their own criminal activity |
