CRIMINOLOGY 3310
REVIEW FOR EXAM 1
- Who was responsible for coining the term criminology
- Know the difference between informal social control and formal social
control.
- Know the common purposes of most ancient legal codes.
- Did victims of crimes in our ancient societies have access to law enforcement
and prosecutors to seek justice or did they have to take the initiative and
bring the charges themselves?
- What types of punishments were common in ancient societies and what
types of methods were used to right a wrong? Was some form of restitution
utilized?
- Know what folkways and mores are.
- What is the name of the oldest surviving written legal code in the
world?
- What does the term Lex Talonis mean?
- Were crimes in medieval England considered crimes against the State
or were they personal wrongs?
- What was the name of the first written Roman law?
- How did one's social status in an ancient society affect potential
punishment for wrongdoing?
- What offenses that were illegal in ancient criminal codes are also
illegal in modern codes?
- Know the name of the law the emperor Justin codified.
- What was the purpose of the trial by ordeals?
- Know the method that was used in the middle ages in England to help
them to organize and govern the populace.
- A county in modern society is analogous to what in medieval England?
- What is the name of the doctrine whereby judges follow the ruling in
previous cases for similar situations?
- How did the Common law of England first develop?
- Know the definition of a crime. There are four parts to the definition.
- What are the differences between civil (tort) law and criminal law?
- What is the one thing both civil law and criminal law have in common?
- Know the significant differences between mala in se and mala prohibita
crime; felonies and misdemeanors; and substantive and procedural law.
- What are the four culpable mental states in Texas law?
- What does mens rea and actus rea mean?
- Know the term used to describe laws that do not need any level of intent
in order to be convicted of violating them.
- Know the different defenses and justifications for criminal acts and
which ones can be used to excuse criminal behavior.
- What is the significance of the court case of Rex v. Scofield?
- Know the requirements needed to invoke a successful use of self-defense
in a criminal trial.
- Know how many and what proportion of the populations in both the U.S.
and Texas is under some form of correctional supervision.
- Know the 8 index crimes reported in the UCR.
- Know the reported limitations of the UCR
- What types of crimes are reported in the National Crime Victim's Survey
that will not be found in the UCR report. This is the most significant
difference between the two surveys.
- What information is obtained in self-report studies that cannot be
determined from the official records or the victimization surveys?
- According to self-report studies, what has been the general crime trend
in the past 30 years?
- What are the major drawbacks of self-report surveys?
- Know the direction of the overall official crime rate from 1960-2000.
Is it going up or down? What years did it peak. Where are we
today in comparison to 1960? Study your graphs on the violent crime
rate and the property crime rate and answer the same questions.
- Answer the same questions above using the NCVS survey graphs
- Know the general differences in the crime rates with respect to gender,
race and regions of the country and whether differences between urban and
rural areas.
- What does the term desistance mean?
- What are the four functions of criminal law mentioned in class?