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This MDC Sociology/Criminology professor is well known for their interactive and effective teaching style and well-rated courses.
Who is Professor Mary Dwyer?
This theory proposes that individuals will make rational decisions regarding their behavior.
What is deterrence theory?
This theory assumes most crime occurs because offenders seize opportunity in the patterns that they observe in potential victims.
What is routine activities theory?
This theory says that society labeling individuals as deviants may promote criminal behavior (self-fulfilling prophecy).
What is labeling theory?
What is a case study?
What psychologist proposed the idea of the "Id", "Ego", and "Superego" in the subconscious?
Who is Sigmeund Freud?
This term refers to the focus of punishments on potential criminals rather than criminals in the present case.
What is General Deterrence?
These are the three factors of routine activity theory.
What is motivated offender, suitable target, and lack of guardianship?
This idea emphasizes the need for a police crackdown on minor offenses in order to reduce major crimes.
What is broken windows perspective?
In adoptive studies, this refers to the placing of an adoptee with a family similar to their biological family in social and educational terms.
What is selective placement?
This person believed that some individuals had a biological propensity for crime and that certain physical features could point them out as criminals.
Who is Cesare Lombroso?
Beccaraia claimed that this was the worst crime one could commit.
This theory suggests that higher levels of testosterone and lower levels of estrogen determine higher criminality.
What is hormonal theory?
Sheldon's theory that links body types to their criminality.
What is somatotype theory?
This study type uses monozygotic beings to compare criminality in nurture v. nature in different individuals.
What is Twin Studies?
Who is considered the 'Father of Deterrence' that claimed that 'swiftness, certainty, and severity' are the characteristics of punishment.
Who is Beccaria?
This school of thought takes into account mitigating and aggravating factors when deciding the sentencing for a given criminal activity.
What is the Neoclassical perspective?
This is the theory that individuals may react in certain ways if they have experienced some type of separation or have weak ties to significant others.
What is attachment theory?
This is the belief that the size of the brain/skull determines the superiority or inferiority of individuals and certain racial/ethnic groups.
What is craniometry?
These studies provide participants with certain hypothetical scenarios and ask them what they would do in each one.
What is scenario research?
This sociologist developed the social bond theory.
Who is Travis Hirschi?
Which book was excommunicated and condemned by the Roman Catholic Church and is one of Cesare Beccaria's most well-known works?
What is On Crimes and Punishments?
This theory says that people with normative structures that are different from mainstream culture may lead to illegal behavior.
What is subcultural theory?
This theory says that people that have too much control over others, or are controlled too much, are more likely to commit crimes.
What is control/balance theory?
This theory says lower-class youth are more at a disadvantage at school because they are based on middle-class norms.
What is lower-class frustration theory?