CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala, Psychopathy

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Self-report studies features: phone surveys or written questionnaires asking individuals about their past involvement in various forms of criminal behaviour, valuable source of information for victimless crimes such as drug use, independent of police and citizen reporting crimes. Goes directly to sources, not replying on one to report a crime or file a police report. May not define what was done as the criminal. People don"t report things that aren"t defined in questions: reporting bias. Males are more likely to under-report involvement in crime (gender bias) crimes such as aggression and assault: no independent measure of validity. 15-24 yrs are at the highest risk. Engaging in night activities, bars restaurants , working at night. The use and abuse of crime statistics: role of statistics in claims-making. The process in which people demand immediate social problems. Use of statistics in a way that supports points, which creates distortion and inaccurate stats.

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3. Most of us would like to live in a world were crimes are reported and dealt with, but weâd prefer to have others bear the burden of reporting a crime. Suppose a crime is witnessed by 76 N people, and suppose the cost of picking up the phone and reporting the crime is c > 0. Begin by assuming that everyone places a value x > c on the crime being reported, and if the crime goes unreported, everyoneâs payoff is 0. Thus, the payoff to me if you report a crime is x, and the payoff to me if I report a crime is (x - c). (a) Each person then has to simultaneously decide whether or not to pick up the phone to report the crime. Is there a Nash equilibrium in which no one reports the crime? (b) Is there a Nash equilibrium in which more than one person reports the crime? (c) There are many Nash equilibria in this game. What do all of them have in common?

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The city council of Pine Bluffs is considering increasing the number of police in an effort to reduce crime. Before making a final decision, the council asked the chief of police to survey other cities of similar size to determine the relationship between the number of police and the number of crimes reported. The chief gathered the following sample information.

City Police Number of Crimes

Oxford 19 19

Holgate 21 10

Starksville 21 15

Carey 16 21

Danville 26 9

Whistler 14 25

Athens 29 11

Woodville 23 11

A) Determine the regression equation.

B) Estimate the number of crimes in a city with 28 police officers.

C) Interpret the regression equation: For each policeman added, the number of crimes goes (up/down) by one.

6. (1 point) Tara lives in an economy where all adults either either work or go to university Those without a university education earn a salary of $40,000 per year. Those with a university education earn a salary of $65,000. University education lasts 3 years. Tuition is $30,000 per year, and Tara has access to interest-free student loans. Assume that Tara is an adult for 10 years. As an economist, give Tara advice on whether she should attend university before working. Bonus Question 1. (1 point) What, if anything, do you expect to happen to the num- ber of men who report having same-sex sexual orientation (or report being in a same-sex relationship or report having same-sex sexual desires) when HIV/AIDS becomes more preva- lent? What, if anything, do you expect to happen to the number of women who report having same-sex sexual orientation or report being in a same-sex relationship or report having same-sex sexual desires) when HIV/AIDS becomes more prevalent? Answer to these questions as an economist. Focus on explaining how and why changes in sexual behavior in response to HIV/AIDS becoming more prevalent might be different for men vs. women. Explanation should be 1-3 sentences. Bonus Question 2. (1 point) Following the murder-kidnapping of 12-year old Polly Klaas in 1993, California and a number of other states in the U.S. have passed so called three- strikes-laws. A three-strikes-law mandates that a person who commits a third criminal act to be jailed for the rest of his/her life without the possibility of parole. Importantly, these three-strikes-laws do not distinguish between more dangerous criminal acts such as murders and bank robberies and less dangerous crimes such as a smoking pot and shoplifting. Instead, anyone who is convicted of three criminal acts in total is to be jailed for the rest of his/her life following the third conviction. The intended effect of implementing such three-strikes-laws was to increase the penalties for crimes of any type in order to deter criminals from committing crimes. However, evidence suggests that the implementation of three-strikes-laws has increased the number of dangerous criminal acts (murders, bank robberies, etc) that have been committed. Why have the three-strikes-laws possibly led to an increase in the number of dangerous criminal acts? Explain (in 1-2 sentences).

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