Exam 7: Stranger Danger and Violence in the Streets

Bank robberies rarely capture much media attention unless they result in multiple deaths or a shootout with police that happens to be captured by video.

Discuss the characteristics of female robbery offenders.

An ordinary crime becomes a ______ when an offender selects a victim because of some characteristic,such as his or her race or religion.

Robbery is ______.

Environmental crime prevention seeks to understand technical and structural solutions to crime and in response design environments or products in ways that minimize the risk of victimization.

Research with offenders suggests that victim resistance increases the likelihood that the robber will use physical force against the intended target.

Marital status and geographical location are also related to robbery victimization.

While most robberies do result in death,they all involve the use of force or the threat of force.

Discuss Wright and Decker' s "code of the streets" in relation to the Elijah Anderson definition.

In U.S.society,the ______ Amendment protects citizen' s right to free speech,including hate speech.This is a fundamental right that we believe should never be jeopardized.

All of us feel the need to be part of a community.Internet chat rooms facilitate this formation of community for their participants.They also provide a type of reinforcement for extremist ideas that would not be tolerated in the larger society,which is known as ______.