Biosocial Theory
Criminals resemble primitive humans.
What is atavism?
Low IQ may reduce this decision-making ability.
What is moral reasoning or ability to delay gratification?
Indirect poverty effect weakening traditional control.
What is social disorganization?
Peer influence, socialization, and interaction.
What are social processes?
Crime is one form of human suffering.
What is peacemaking criminology?
Biology interacts with environment to produce crime.
What is the biosocial perspective?
Poor school performance increases this risk.
What is delinquency?
Cycle of concentrated disadvantage.
What is the underclass?
Strong childhood bonds reduce this.
What is delinquency?
Focus on inequality and harm.
What is critical criminology?
Brain chemical linked to aggression.
What is serotonin?
Abnormal biological or psychological condition causing crime.
What is abnormality?
Neighborhood monitoring by residents.
What is informal control?
Criminal label becomes self-fulfilling.
What is labeling theory?
Fear of crime reduces this community factor.
What is informal control?
Rational part of personality.
What is the ego?
When twins behave alike.
What is concordance?
Crime weakens this community bond.
What is cohesion?
Integrated strain-control emphasis on bonds.
What is interactional theory?
Decision-making model behind routine activities theory.
What is rational choice?
Study of skull shape once linked to crime.
What is phrenology?
Supports the idea that crime is inherited genetically.
What is heredity?
Economic deprivation.
What is extreme poverty?
View that crime causes real harm and requires practical solutions.
What is left realism?
Absence of guardians increases this.
What is crime opportunity?