PUP 3002 Exam (Chapter 9-12): Questions With
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government can only collect phone data for a specific investigation. Can
not collect data on all people in the country as a whole, at least not without
the approval of a judge or the FISA court
Choose an answer
1 Usa Patriot Act 2 Shield Act
3 USA Freedom Act 4 Federal Mann Act
Don't know?
Terms in this set (149)
,What are the primary Opportunity costs and expected utility.
political economy
concepts we use to
provide insight on crime
policy
What are the primary Uniform crime report and the National crime
measures of crime victimization survey
What is one of the Education
greatest deterrents of
crime
Crime a violation of the law. It is a way to satisfy desires
violent crime
white collar/corporate crime
What are the five types of
organized crime (including terrorism)
crime
property crime
how much does this costs
Drug crime
us a year
about 200 billion, but immeasurably high emotional
costs
One of two major sources of crime data. Data is
voluntarily submitted to it by about 17,000 local law
enforcement agencies. Often thought of as
objective data and NOT free from error due to some
Uniform Crime report
agencies interpreting the FBI'S guidelines differently
or not reporting certain crimes for political reasons
- Measurement error: Some victims of crime do not
report it to the police
managed by the bureau of Justice Statistics
- A large survey of randomly selected American
households regarding crime victimizations
National Crime
- generally finds more crime reported than in the
Victimization survey
UCR
- Problem: No independent check on what is
reported
, Data for homicide is also a similar pattern to
property crimes
- black males between 18-24 are most likely to be
What are general murdered
demographic - white women over 25 are least likely
characteristics - young people 18-24 kill the most. Males commit
almost 90% of murders
-White women over 25 and black men between 18-
24 commit the most murders
1) The punishment
Gary Becker said that 2) The probability of punishment
crime is a function of 3) The return benefit from crime (including the
probability of getting a return)
- Reasons from both nurture and nature
- Those with mental illness are likely to run afoul with
the law and other are raised in environments that
Why do individuals
encourage law breaking (way to get ahead, and a
engage in crime
right of passage)
Blend of economic, expressive, personal, and social
factors
Pyschic Rewards social factors and emotional rewards
Probability(Not Caught)Utility of Not
caught+Probability(caught)Utility caught
- All probabilities are non negative as well as
different per individual and the decision maker
chooses the option with the greatest expected
utility
Expected Utility model of - Anything that increases either the PR(being
crime caught) or the utility(not being caught) increases
the probability that one commits the crime
- Anything that increases the PR(being caught) or
increases the UT(being caught) decreases the Prob
that one commits the crime
- Expected prob. differ from individual but trends
are identifiable
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Practice questions for this set
Learn 1 /7 Study with Learn
government can only collect phone data for a specific investigation. Can
not collect data on all people in the country as a whole, at least not without
the approval of a judge or the FISA court
Choose an answer
1 Usa Patriot Act 2 Shield Act
3 USA Freedom Act 4 Federal Mann Act
Don't know?
Terms in this set (149)
,What are the primary Opportunity costs and expected utility.
political economy
concepts we use to
provide insight on crime
policy
What are the primary Uniform crime report and the National crime
measures of crime victimization survey
What is one of the Education
greatest deterrents of
crime
Crime a violation of the law. It is a way to satisfy desires
violent crime
white collar/corporate crime
What are the five types of
organized crime (including terrorism)
crime
property crime
how much does this costs
Drug crime
us a year
about 200 billion, but immeasurably high emotional
costs
One of two major sources of crime data. Data is
voluntarily submitted to it by about 17,000 local law
enforcement agencies. Often thought of as
objective data and NOT free from error due to some
Uniform Crime report
agencies interpreting the FBI'S guidelines differently
or not reporting certain crimes for political reasons
- Measurement error: Some victims of crime do not
report it to the police
managed by the bureau of Justice Statistics
- A large survey of randomly selected American
households regarding crime victimizations
National Crime
- generally finds more crime reported than in the
Victimization survey
UCR
- Problem: No independent check on what is
reported
, Data for homicide is also a similar pattern to
property crimes
- black males between 18-24 are most likely to be
What are general murdered
demographic - white women over 25 are least likely
characteristics - young people 18-24 kill the most. Males commit
almost 90% of murders
-White women over 25 and black men between 18-
24 commit the most murders
1) The punishment
Gary Becker said that 2) The probability of punishment
crime is a function of 3) The return benefit from crime (including the
probability of getting a return)
- Reasons from both nurture and nature
- Those with mental illness are likely to run afoul with
the law and other are raised in environments that
Why do individuals
encourage law breaking (way to get ahead, and a
engage in crime
right of passage)
Blend of economic, expressive, personal, and social
factors
Pyschic Rewards social factors and emotional rewards
Probability(Not Caught)Utility of Not
caught+Probability(caught)Utility caught
- All probabilities are non negative as well as
different per individual and the decision maker
chooses the option with the greatest expected
utility
Expected Utility model of - Anything that increases either the PR(being
crime caught) or the utility(not being caught) increases
the probability that one commits the crime
- Anything that increases the PR(being caught) or
increases the UT(being caught) decreases the Prob
that one commits the crime
- Expected prob. differ from individual but trends
are identifiable
