Chapter 1

This is an action taken by a person or a group of people that violates the rules of society to the point of harm.

• Speeding.

• Plea bargaining.

• Crime.

• Socialization.

This kind of crime includes interpersonal violence and property crime.

• Sensational crime.

• White-collar crime.

• Street crime.

• Organized crime.

Controlling and preventing antisocial behavior is solely the responsibility of the criminal justice system.

• True

• FALSE

What we know about crime is often based on incomplete and inaccurate information. Why?

• We tend to personalize.

• Crime statistics do not tell the whole story.

• All crime is local crime.

• All of the above.

The process by which individuals acquire a personal identity and learn appropriate norms, values, behavior, and social skills.

• Socialization.

• Sociological imagination.

• Crime.

• Discretion.

This is a state or federal institution that confines people convicted of crime who are serving sentences for longer than a year.

• Jail.

• Prison.

• Institution.

• Stockade.

This is a social institution that has the mission of controlling crime by detecting, detaining, adjudicating, and punishing and/or rehabilitating people who break the law.

• Law.

• Criminal justice.

• Law enforcement.

• Criminology.

The suspension of all or part of a sentence subject to certain conditions and supervision in the community.

• Parole.

• Probation.

• Jail.

• Retribution.

A written request to a higher court to modify or reverse the judgment of a trial court or intermediate-level appellate court.

• Application.

• Appeal.

• Arrest.

• Warrant.

The Secret Service is responsible only for protecting the president.

• True

• FALSE