They generally stalk their victims in advance and act out of a sense of social and sexual inadequacy.
What is a power-reassurance rapist?
100
The disciplinary definition of criminology.
What is the body of knowledge regarding the social problem of crime?
100
This field of study is concerned primarily with the causes and consequences of crime
What is criminology?
100
According to him, aggressive behavior can be learned by watching others behave aggressively on television
Who is Bandura?
100
According to her typology, boosters are professional shoplifters.
Who is Mary Owen Cameron?
200
He identified episodic shoplifters as individuals who generally commit the crime because of psychological problems.
Who is Richard Moore?
200
Sending a misbehaving child to bed without dessert.
What is negative punishment?
200
A series of interrelated propositions that posit relationships between events and things under study
What is a hypothesis?
200
This biological theory focuses on the idea that the root causes of criminality are passed from one generation to the next in the form of “bad genes.”
What is eugenic criminality?
200
What the commitment element of a social bond refers to.
What is the amount of energy and effort put into activities with other people?
300
These criminologists believe crime is a result of a conflict between social classes.
Who are the conflict-theorists?
300
The type of self control people engage in when they have the ability to resist temptations.
What is impulse control?
300
According to your text the reason crime appears to significantly decrease at the age of 25.
What is because the individual is more involved in raising a family?
300
These social development theories combine various points of view on the process of development.
What are integrated theories?
300
Changing the process by which corporations are chartered.
What is an example of structural change that would result in white collar reform?
400
This perspective on rape believes that rape is the result of an uncontrollable sexual impulse.
What is the pcsychopathological perspective?
400
The single best predictor of criminality.
What is gender?
400
True or False: In his study of the link between social class and crime, John Braithwaite found that there is no correlation between the two variables.
What is false?
400
The reason young children, under the age of seven, generally start fires.
What is out of curiosity?
400
The intimidation of legitimate business through threats of strikes and walkouts
What is union labor racketeering?
500
An early biological theory that studied the shape the human head to predict criminality.
What is phrenology?
500
Correlations between the age, gender, or race of the offender and the crime he has committed.
What are the social dimensions of crime?
500
Intelligence is a characteristic of the psychosocial personality.
What is false?
500
The primary motivation for the crime of joyriding.
What is fun?
500
The type of crime that is a violation of a criminal statute by a corporate entity or its employees acting on behalf of, and for the benefit of the corporation.