Understanding Elements of Crime and Criminality with Prof. Tamryn Etten, Exams of Criminal Justice

Download Understanding Elements of Crime and Criminality with Prof. Tamryn Etten and more Exams Criminal Justice in PDF only on Docsity! JS 101 Crime and Criminality Prof. Tamryn Etten Learning Objectives #4 (for Final Exam) GOAL: Understand the elements of a crime and to be able to synthesize the material from the entire semester. OBJECTIVES: At the completion of these classes, after you have read the assigned readings and reviewed your notes, you should be able to: 1. Distinguish, recognize, or define in your own words: subculture of violence, rape shield laws, infanticide, serial murder, mass murder, fence, professional thief, economic crimes, white collar crime, insider trading, influence peddling, exploitation, pilferage, shrinkage, price fixing, and RICO. 2. Evaluate whether gun control would work to control violence in America. 3. Evaluate what Michael Moore would suggest is the cause of violence in America. 4. When given a statement about guns, gun violence, or gun control in the U.S., evaluate if there is empirical support for the statement. 5. Identify the 11 crimes discussed in the class exercise by their requisite actus reus, mens rea, material circumstances. 6. Evaluate potential solutions to crimes, given what you know about the material circumstances. 7. Distinguish the various degrees of murder by elements and criminal intent. 8. Understand the differences between mass murder and serial murder. 9. Distinguish between assault and battery. 10. Describe the different types of robberies and robbers, motivations of robbers, and how guns affect their crimes. 11. Discuss the three emerging forms of interpersonal violence. 12. Describe the various types of larceny/theft and the differences between them. 13. Distinguish burglary from robbery, and white-collar crime and organized crime. 14. List, define, and provide one example of the seven elements of Moore’s typology of white-collar crime. 15. Discuss how offenders manage their fears in order to commit felonies. 16. Recognize the technique of neutralization used by an employee to steal office or health care supplies. From earlier material: A. Distinguish, recognize, or define in your own words: Deterrence, general deterrence, specific deterrence, incapacitation, selective incapacitation, restitution, rehabilitation, aging out, early onset, onset, persistence, desistance, prevalence, incidence, chronic offender, crime, tort, reliability, validity, mens rea, actus reus, concurrence, common law, criminology, criminologist, mala in se, mala prohibita, statutory law, substantive criminal law, civil law, inchoate offenses, statutory crime, strict liability, population, sample, crimes cleared, crime rate.