CRJ 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dennis Rader, John Hinckley Jr.
20 Dec 2017
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2/15/2013 4:40:00 pm: seem more likely to be random acts of criminal opportunity than well-thought-out conspiracies. Battered wife syndrome: dr. lenore walker, 3 stages, 1. Acute stage: the battery, the assault, 2. Honeymoon period: making excuses, treat her right, tell her it will never happen again, tells da to drop charges, 3. Building process: tension builds again, abuse commences again, probable cause (apparent) that husband abused wife, then there is a mandatory arrest, someone is going to jail. Situational crime prevention: targeting specific crimes, tactics to reduce a specific crime problem, increase efforts, increase rewards, increase risk, increase shame/reduce provocation, remove excuses, situational crime prevention, benefits, diffusion and displacement, costs, displacements, extinction, and encouragement. General deterrence: crime rates are influenced and controlled by the threat or perception of the application of punishment, perception and deterrence, certainty of punishment and deterrence, severity of punishment and deterrence, speed (celerity) of punishment and deterrence.
