Key Theoretical Points Part 1
Key Theoretical Points Part 2
Theoretical Assumptions
Policy/Program
100

______ theory argues that techniques of crime and the specific motives, drives, rationalizations, and attitudes are learned.

Learning

100

Attachment, Commitment, Involvement, and Belief

The four components of Hirschi’s Social Bond

100

Assumes that we learn crime through the same processes that we learn to share our toys or tie our shoes

Differential Association

100

Programs for high schoolers that get them to focus on their next steps and to invest in college readiness, follow what component of Hirschi’s theory?

Commitment

200

_______ theory compares rates of crime between societies. This theory may also ask why the US has such high rates of crime.

Anomie

200

According to Gottfredson and Hirschi, there is one type of control that matters to our understanding of crime. It is _______.

Self-Control

200

Strain and Anomie Theorists assume that crime is a _______ reaction to strain.

Normal

200

Mentoring programs that work to connect youth with positive and prosocial adults, who can model law abiding behavior, draw from ideas from __________ theory.

Learning

300

Is comprised of social cohesion and trust AND Informal social control

Collective Efficacy

300

This theoretical framework studies the traits of neighborhoods

Chicago School

300

Which theoretical perspective assumes that law violation is natural?

Social Control

300

A program that works to strengthen informal social control within communities draws from which theory?

Chicago School

400

_________ is a cultural frame through which individuals interpret the functioning and viability of the law and its agents

Legal cynicism

400

According to Agnew (General Strain Theory) _______ are one reason why strains increase the likelihood of crime.

Negative Affective States 

(strain may also foster the social learning of crime, reduce levels of social control, lead to personality traits of negative emotionality and low constraint)



400

______ assumes that individuals are rational.

Classical

400

A diversion program that requires youth and their families participate in functional family therapy to work through the challenges/difficulties that are leading the youth into delinquency

Strain Theory

500

Idea that criminals manifest physical anomalies that make them similar to our primitive ancestors

Criminal Atavism

500

_____ tendencies inherent in the American Dream both produce and are reproduced by an ______ imbalance of power dominated by the economy

Anomic and Institutional

500

Assumes that anyone - regardless of social class - can become criminal

Differential Association

500

Assuming the death penalty is a deterrent, it follows which theoretical perspective?

Classical Theory