Crim application

• Deterrent: Many people do not commit crimes in the first place and this is because they want to avoid the negative consequences that they have seen others suffer.
• Restorative justice: The victim of the crime will meet the criminal, the offender has to take responsibility or their crime and face the consequences of their actions when talking with their victim.
• Offenders are encouraged to apologise, return any property/money and complete community service bringing them back into the community.
• Prisons: taking away freedom, rights & privileges.
• Positive role models: offenders observe the actions of pro-social role models so they can learn how to behave.
• Fines: money can be an incentive to committing crimes like theft so loss of money should have the opposite effect.
• Community sentences: offenders also pay back to society by giving up their time.
• Incentive: a thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something.
• offender profiling: the process of identifying a person's characteristics and behaviour that are associated with criminal behaviour
• rehabilitation: programme/process of helping someone to recover from a mental disorder
• crime: a serious violation of the law
• official statistics: statistics or official figures that are produced by the government
• social construct: a set of ideas about what is real and what is not, based on social norms and values
• self-report surveys: a survey that asks participants to report their own experiences, attitudes, or behaviors
• deviation from norms: behaviour that is considered to be abnormal or not matching what society deems normal
• stigmatization: labelling people as having a particular characteristic which makes them different from others
• problems with self-reports: social desirability, scared victims, unaware of events
• problems with official stats: not all crimes are recorded and reported, inaccurate recordings
• types of violent crimes: assault, murder, manslaughter...
• drug related crimes: supplying and distributing drugs, growing drugs, possession
• acquisitive crimes: theft, fraud, forgery,
• sexual crimes: sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, indecent exposure
• examples of anti-social crimes: graffiti, arson, inebriation, urinating in public, littering
• benefits of punishments: deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, incapacitation
• cons of punishments: can be expensive, time consuming to carry out, can be unjust, psychological effects,