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Early Theories
Social Process Theories
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Victimology
100
Freud argued that THIS allows the ego to control the id.
What is the superego?
100
This theory would argue that boys learn that gang membership is valuable.
What is differential association theory?
100
The most common mode of adaptation in strain/anomie theory.
What is conformity?
100
Labeling theorists do not try to explain why this type of deviance occurs.
What is primary?
100
In routine activities theory, you need a potential offender, vulnerable target, and THIS for most crimes to occur.
What is an absence of guardianship?
200
Beccaria's main concept of the ____________ principle maintained we could control crime by increasing the punishment.
What is pleasure-pain?
200
This theory would argue that gang members have little self-control.
What is control theory?
200
Losing friends to gang violence would be an example of this kind of stressor in general strain theory.
What is loss of positive influences?
200
This theory would argue that girls may engage in other activities rather than joining gangs.
What is feminist theory?
200
The belief that people get what they deserve.
What is the just-world hypothesis?
300

One of the two men we learned about who believed we could determine who is a criminal by examining their physical features.

Who is Lombroso or Ferrero?
300
According to social bond theorists, not being allowed into the Cub Scouts would break this element of a social bond.
What is involvement (or commitment)?
300
For social disorganization theorists, Compton had a lot of crime because it lacks social __________.
What is control?
300
Labeling theorists might argue that "riots" could be called THIS instead.
What are protests or guerrilla warfare?
300
Theory that argues you are at a higher risk of victimization if you are a criminal or frequent bars.
What is lifestyle theory?
400
Type of theory that would be interested in how one's biology and one's social environment relate to the risk of committing crime.
What is biosocial?
400
According to social bond theorists, if the boys do not have strong families, they lack this element of the social bond.
What is attachment?
400
Selling drugs in order to make money is an example of this mode of adaptation in strain theory.
What is innovation?
400
This is an official label that becomes a barrier to getting a job.
What is a criminal record?
400
Two of the four characteristics of the type of person who is most likely to report crime.
Who is the elderly, women, Black, and urban?
500
Bentham's prison in which inmates could be continually watched by a prison guard.
What is the Panopticon?
500
According to this theory, gang members learn that the police are their enemies.
What is differential association theory?
500
Being shot at on the way to school is an example of this type of stressor in general strain theory.
What is presentation of negative influences?
500
The theory that would be most interested in the fact that most gang members are boys/men.
What is feminist theory?
500
The father of victimology.
Who is Benjamin Mendelsohn?