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After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Distinguish between a social definition and a legal definition of crime and summarize the problems with each.
- List the technical and ideal elements of a crime.
- Identify some of the legal defenses or legal excuses for criminal responsibility.
- Explain why crime and delinquency statistics are unreliable.
- Identify the two major sources of crime statistics in the United States.
- Describe the principal finding of the national crime victimization surveys.
- Summarize the general finding of self-report crime surveys.
- Identify the costs of crime.
- Describe the extent of fear of crime in the United States and the characteristics of people most likely to fear crime.
- List the characteristics of people who are the most likely and the least likely to be victims of crime.
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