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Introduction to Criminology - CRIM 101

Covers crime measurement, criminological theories, social factors, victimization, policing, punishment, and patterns of crime.

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7 Victimization and Victim Services

Learn how victimization is measured and experienced, what victim services provide, and how prevention can address harm across connected levels.
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4 Theories of Individual Criminal Behavior

Compare classical, positivist, and psychological explanations of individual criminal behavior, including their claims, uses, and limitations.
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5 Social Theories of Crime

Compare five sociological perspectives on crime and see how social pressures, relationships, institutions, reactions, and power can shape offending.
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6 Social Factors and Crime

Explore how economic conditions, neighborhoods, relationships, institutions, and justice-system processes shape risks of offending and victimization without determining individual outcomes.
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8 Policing and Social Control

Explains the roles and strategies of policing, how discretion is guided and scrutinized, and why fair treatment and community partnership support police legitimacy.
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2 Measuring Crime

Compare official statistics, victimization surveys, and self-report studies to understand what each can reveal about crime and where its evidence is incomplete.
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9 Punishment and Corrections

Learn how criminal sentences are imposed, the purposes they serve, and how correctional settings, community supervision, and rehabilitation shape their effects.
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3 Patterns of Crime

Learn how crime patterns differ across time, places, demographic groups, and offense types, and how to interpret the data used to describe them.
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1 Foundations of Criminology

Learn how criminology defines and studies crime, compares explanations of offending, and evaluates social control and responses to crime.
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Quizzes

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6 Social Factors and Crime

A medium-difficulty quiz on how inequality, neighborhoods, relationships, opportunity, and institutions shape crime, victimization, and criminalization.
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5 Social Theories of Crime

A medium-difficulty quiz on how sociological theories explain crime through social pressures, relationships, social reactions, and power.
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3 Patterns of Crime

A medium-difficulty quiz on interpreting crime patterns across time, places, populations, and offense types, with attention to rates, data sources, and limits on conclusions.
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9 Punishment and Corrections

Assess understanding of punishment goals, sentencing, correctional settings, community supervision, and rehabilitation.
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8 Policing and Social Control

A medium-difficulty quiz on policing strategies, professional judgment, accountability, legitimacy, and police-community relationships.
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2 Measuring Crime

A medium-difficulty quiz on how official statistics, victimization surveys, and self-report studies measure crime, what each method can reveal, and how to interpret their limitations.
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7 Victimization and Victim Services

A medium-difficulty quiz on measuring victimization, its effects, victim services, and prevention.
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4 Theories of Individual Criminal Behavior

A medium-difficulty quiz on classical, positivist, and psychological explanations of individual criminal behavior, including their applications and limitations.
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1 Foundations of Criminology

A medium-difficulty quiz on criminological concepts, research, theories, and responses to crime.
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Flashcards

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6 Social Factors and Crime

Learn how inequality, neighborhood conditions, relationships, and institutions can influence offending, victimization, and criminalization without determining individual behavior.
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7 Victimization and Victim Services

Learn how victimization is measured, how it affects people, and how victim services and prevention efforts respond.
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3 Patterns of Crime

Learn how crime patterns vary across time, places, demographic groups, and offense types, and how to interpret the data used to study them.
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8 Policing and Social Control

Review police roles, policing strategies, officer discretion, accountability, legitimacy, and police-community relationships.
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5 Social Theories of Crime

Review five sociological perspectives on crime and how social pressures, learning, bonds, social reactions, and power can shape offending.
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9 Punishment and Corrections

Review the goals of punishment, common sentence types and correctional settings, and evidence about supervision and rehabilitation.
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4 Theories of Individual Criminal Behavior

Review how classical, positivist, and psychological theories explain individual criminal behavior, including their methods, strengths, and limits.
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2 Measuring Crime

Learn how official statistics, victimization surveys, and self-report studies measure different parts of crime, and understand the limits of each.
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1 Foundations of Criminology

Learn how criminology defines and studies crime, distinguishes it from related concepts, and explains offending through major theoretical perspectives.
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