Social sciences
The systematic and objective study of human society.
What is sociology?
Looking for social influences that recruit juveniles to violate laws.
What is the sociological explanation?
The earliest agent of socialization.
What is family?
Attachment, commitment, involvement and belief.
What is social bond?
When society expresses its approval for following norms.
What is a positive sanction?
They are said to be more objective than social sciences.
What are natural sciences?
The combination of the psychological and psychiatric explanations of juvenile delinquency.
What is the psychogenic explanation?
Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, aggravated assault and robbery.
What is violent crime?
Who are they to accuse me of something?
What is the condemnation of the condemners?
The first sociologist to contend deviance could be functional to society.
Who is Emile Durkheim?
The ability to connect the most basic and intimate aspects of your life to the social context.
What is the sociological imagination?
According to this Italian physician, juvenile delinquency is inherited.
Who is Cesare Lombroso?
Sexist or racial prejudices can lead to it.
What is discrimination?
When you accept the institutionalized means but reject the cultural goals of your society.
Who is a ritualist?
Norms that are not strictly enforced by society.
What are folkways?
A technique to decrease the frequency of value judgments.
What is autoanalysis/peer review/replication?
Charles Montesquieu, Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham.
What is the Classical School of Criminological Thought/hedonistic explanation?
The category of crime juveniles get arrested the most frequently in the United States.
What are property crimes?
Punishments that discourage an individual from committing similar acts in the future.
What is specific deterrence?
The violation of laws enacted by society.
What is crime?
This German sociologist coined the concept of value judgment.
Who is Max Weber?
A biological throwback to a savage, lower stage of human evolution.
What is atavism?
The reason children below 7 years old cannot be convicted.
What is the lack of mens rea?
This theory argues that social classes differ in opportunities in crime.
What is the illegitimate opportunity theory?
Abortion is legal in the United States but illegal in Peru.
What is the cultural variation of crime/relativity of crime?