Social facts about crime
Name two social facts about crime
What are: Ecological distribution, age-crime curve, trends over time, companionship, gender gap?
When a theory can explain many different types of crime, it is said to meet this good theory criteria
What is Scope
A fundamental premise of this school of thought is that people engage in crime as a result of free will.
What is Classical
Rosenfeld and Messner argue that this institution is more powerful than other in the US
What is the economy?
According to sampson and laub's lifecourse theory, events that cause a change in an individual's criminal trajectory are called this.
What is turning points?
Describe what I mean when I say the ecological distribution of crime
The crime is clustered in space and theories should be able to explain why.
The definition of parsimony
Simplicity
True of false, feminist theories are limited to explaining only female offending
False
The city Shaw and McKay developed their theory of social disorganization
What is Chicago
This theorist is responsible for the invention of the panopticon.
The mode of adaptation that best describes a single mother who works weekends to provide a better life for her daughter.
Conformist
What are the three things deterrence theorists say should shape people's choice to engage in criminal behavior?
Celerity (Speed), Severity, Certainty
The word for a state of normlessness