It's Just a Theory
Theory based on the assumption that people exercise free will and are thus completely responsible for their actions. Human behavior, including criminal, is dependent on the possible amount of pain and pleasure that comes with certain actions.
What is the Classical Theory?
Believed that the only justified rationale for laws and punishments is the principle of utility. Writer of An Essay on Crimes and Punishment.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
Radical theorists argue that this economic system requires people to compete against each other in the pursuit of material wealth.
What is Capitalism?
The focus of the Feminist theory
What is women’s experiences?
Theory based on the belief that criminals are physically different from non-criminals.
What is biological positivism?
Explained that certain factors, such as insanity, might inhibit the exercise of free will.
What is the Neoclassical Theory?
Considers crime a social fact and that crime is functional as it marks the boundaries of society.
Who is Durkheim?
Low levels of this brain neurotransmitter have been found in impulsive murderers and arsonists.
What is serotonin?
What do biological theorists suggest causes crime?
What is biological inferiority?
A question (this question is a joke question and awards no points)
What is an answer?
Theory that rejects the critical and negative philosophy of Enlightenment thinkers.
What is the Positivist Theory?
Believes the cause of anomie in juveniles is society’s inability to provide a legitimate means of achieving wealth.
Who is Cohen?
What is a person called who is predisposed to crime or reverts to the savage type?
What is an atavist?
The athletically built body type and the body type that, according to the body-type theory, most likely predisposes a criminal.
What is mesomorphic?
Assumes people will commit crime if not prevented from doing so.
What is the Social Control Theory?
Who is associated with psychoanalytical theories of crime causation?
Who is Freud?
What is referred as the “greatest happiness shared by the greatest number?”
What is utility?
How many stigmata do biological theorists think a person has that is predisposed to commit crime?
What is five?
Theory that focuses largely on the criminalization process as the cause of some crime
What is the Labeling Theory?
Whose theory assumes crime is a means by which individuals meet their basic human needs?
Who is Maslow?
A person who becomes a criminal because of his/her contact with criminals and isolation from law-abiding citizens.
What is a differential social organization?
Theory that suggests all social problems, including crime, can be solved by the transformation of human beings, mutual dependence, the reduction of class structures, creating communities of caring people, and instituting universal social justice. (Suggests a lot of stuff)
What is the peacemaking criminology theory?