This group of theories view crime as a function of social conflict and economic rivalry.
What is critical theory?
100
This is the core concept of feminist theory.
What is patriarchy?
100
These theories view crime as a dynamic process influence by a multitude of individual characteristics, traits, and social experiences.
What are the Life Course Theories?
100
A stable feature present at birth or established early in life.
What is a latent trait?
100
These laws protect women from being questioned about their sexual history unless it directly bears on their case.
What are Shield Laws?
200
An example of this crime is when the government uses death squads to kill political opponents, dissenters, or other undesireables.
What is state violence?
200
The major concern of feminist theory which asks why men are more likely than women to be involved in crime.
What is the gender ratio problem?
200
Research shows this to be the a key factor in terms of early onset of criminality.
What is poor parental discipline?
200
Latent traits theorists point to the fluctuating opportunity to commit crime as the explanation for this.
What is aging out of crime?
200
These types of violent crimes vent anger, frustration, or rage.
What expressive violent crimes?
300
These are the unproductive members of society, according to Karl Marx.
Who are the lumpen proletariat?
300
The theorist who stated that women DO commit as much crime as men, we just don't know about it because they are inherently deceitful and hide their crimes better.
Who was Otto Pollack?
300
This pathway to crime begins with stubborn behavior.
What is the authority conflict pathway?
300
According to the General Theory of Crime, this is the most important factor in predicting criminal behavior.
What is self-control?
300
In addition to the murder of women by the men they live with, these murders have also increased over the past decade.
What are stranger murders?
400
The process of creating transnational markets and political and legal systems.
What is globalization?
400
Research has shown that women's brains have more of the chemical associated with this trait than do men's brains.
What is empathy?
400
These individuals abstain from crime, despite criminal and deviant behavior being the norm among their peers.
Who are Non-starters?
400
Constant latent traits and this type are the two types of latent traits.
What are evolving latent traits?
400
Most armed robberies are motivated by the need for this.
What is cash?
500
This concept requires that society addresses victims' harms, hold offenders accountable to put right those harms, and include communities in the process of healing.
What is restorative justice?
500
The concept which says gender roles are determined by the current social situation.
What is "doing gender?"
500
Repeat negative experiences create this.
What is Cumulative Disadvantage?
500
The General Theory of Crime was developed by these men.
Who are Gottfredson and Hirschi?
500
This type of homicide occurs when police and other agencies of social control are seen as weak and devalued, causing people to "take the law into their own hands."