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These criminologists believe the cause of crime can be linked to economic, social and political disparity.
What are Critical criminologists?
Life-changing events that alter development of a criminal career.
Life course theorists say most adolescent-limited offenders are this.
What are typical teenagers?
This path begins early with stubborn behavior and defiance of parents.
What is authority conflict pathway?
What the developmental theorists say is the natural history of a criminal career.
What is the onset, continuation, and termination of crime?
This happens at birth or soon after.
When does the latent trait appear?
This is an effort to prevent crime through community organization and youth involvement.
What is preemptive deterrence?
When someone steals to support their drug habit, they are said to have this.
What is economic compulsive behavior?
These theorists say criminality is a dynamic process.
Who are life course theorists?
These laws protect victims from being questioned about past sexual history unless it has a direct bearing on the case.
What are shield laws?
These schools have a completion rate that is consistently 40% or less.
What are dropout factories?
Non-punitive strategies to right wrongs and restore social harmony.
What is restorative justice?
The translation of the Latin word rapere.
What is to take by force?
Displacement of workers by pushing them outside the economic and social mainstream.
What is marginalization?
These are the two paths that Moffit says young offenders follow.
What are adolescent-limited and life-course persistent?
The laborers produce these profits, but the business owners accrue the profits for their own personal enrichment.
What is surplus value?
Gottfredson and Hirschi's belief of criminal acts and the criminal offender.
What are separate concepts?
the segment of society where violence has become legitimized by the customs and norms of that group.
What is the subculture of violence?
Inadequate child-rearing practices are the cause of this according to Gottfredson and Hirschi.
What is poor self-control?
This is when the life course theory says the seeds of a criminal career are planted.
What is early in life?
This believes that punitive crime control strategies are counterproductive and favors a more humanistic resolution.
What is peacemaking?
The change of criminal opportunity causes the fluctuation of crime rates.
What the GTC says about the crime and the criminal?
This pathway begins with minor aggression but escalates to violent crime.
What is the overt pathway?
When one's history of physical abuse predisposes them to become violent in the later years.
What is the cycle of violence?
What are paternalistic families?