CHAPTER 9:
CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
By the end of this chapter students will be able to:
- Summarize crime statistics and the crime trends in the United States over the past ten years.
- Explain the Uniform Crime Report, how it gathers its information, and how it categorizes crime.
- Differentiate between a felony and a misdemeanor.
- List the six different categories of crime cited by criminologists and to discuss the characteristics of each.
- Define murder and other violent crimes that result in the taking of another’s life.
- Classify and discuss forcible, statutory, and acquaintance rape and how each crime is alike as well as different.
- Develop a profile of the common characteristics of offenders who commit specific crimes.
- Explain gang violence and hate crimes as a social problem, their causes, and the social response to them.
- Discuss the various forms of property crime, who commits these acts, and their motives.
- Discuss the ramifications of white-collar crime, corporate crime, and organized crime on the American consumer and economy as a whole.
- Define juvenile delinquency and how it contributes to the overall crime problem in America.
- Analyze crime and delinquency from the biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives.
- Discuss the role the criminal justice system plays in dealing with crime and delinquency including a summary on the components of the system.
