Explaining Crime
Theorists 1
Theorists 2
Theorists 3
100

Low levels of this hormone have been found in impulsive murderers and arsonists.

What is Serotonin

100

This theorist suggested that crime is a means by which some people attempt to satisfy their basic human needs

Abraham Maslow

100

According to Robert K. Merton, this adaptation to anomie or strain is at the root of most criminal behavior

Innovation

100

With which theorist is the modern social control theory most associated

Travis Hirschi

200

This group assumed that people exercise free will and are thus completely responsible for their actions.

What are the Enlightenment Thinkers

200

This theorist views crime as one among several different adaptations to the helplessness caused by oppression

Seymour L. Halleck

200

He was the first twentieth-century criminologist to forcefully argue that criminal behavior was learned

Edwin H. Sutherland

200

According to Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, low self-control may cause people to engage in deviant behaviors, including crime and delinquency. For Gottfredson and Hirschi, what is the principal cause of low self-control?

Ineffective child-rearing

300

The theory that admits that there are factors that might affect the exercise of free will

Neoclassical Theory

300

The cause of crime according to Émile Durkheim is __________

Anomie

300

People become criminal because of contacts with criminal definitions and isolation from noncriminal definitions this best describes Edward Sutherland's theory of _________________


Differential Association

300

The theory which assumes that crime is a product of power differentials or relative powerlessness in society

Conflict Theory

400

This body type is more likely to be associated with delinquency

Mesomorphic

400

This theorist argued that crime is a social fact and a normal aspect of society

Émile Durkheim

400

This category of theorists focus more on why people obey the law rather than asking why people commit crime and delinquency

Social Control

400

The groups of theorists that argue, critical criminologists need to redirect their attention to the fear and to the very real victimization experienced by working-class individuals

British or Left realists

500

Low levels of this hormone have been linked to violent crime, such as impulsive murder

Serotonin

500

According to this theorist, most people adapt to the problem of anomie or strain through conformity.

Robert K. Merton

500

A cultural or ethnic group invades a territory occupied by another group and dominates that new territory until it is displaced, or succeeded, by another group, and the cycle repeats itself.  This type of growth of a city that occurs through a process of invasion, dominance, and succession is explained by the theory of ______________

the Chicago School

500

The condition in which a person weighs the potential pleasure of an action against the possible pain associated with it

Hedonistic Rationality