CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Peer Group, Voyeurism, Pedophilia
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Give 4 facors that could interact to cause violence. Multi-causal explanations: no single factor causes violence; rather, there are multiple factors that converge and/or interact, biological and psychological factors, personal history/personal experiences, socialization, community, culture. What is the minimum number of years for something to be a trend: 5 years, 20 years, 10 years, 2 years, 1 year (t/f) the violent crime rate has been trending upwards since 2001. What are 2 possible reasons why the rates of violent crime go up as you move westward and northward in. Manslaughter: the difference between assault and homicide is that the victim survives an assault - if the victim dies, then it becomes a homicide. Manslaughter : unintentional killing a of a human being - in other words, without any planning and without the intent to kill the victim. Age and violence: age is one of the strongest and most consistent predictors of violence.