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Social facts about crime
Good theory criteria
micro theories
macro theories
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100

Name two social facts about crime

What are: Ecological distribution, age-crime curve, trends over time, companionship, gender gap?

100

When a theory can explain many different types of crime, it is said to meet this good theory criteria

What is Scope

100

A fundamental premise of this school of thought is that people engage in crime as a result of free will.

What is Classical

100

Rosenfeld and Messner argue that this institution is more powerful than other in the US

What is the economy?

100

According to sampson and laub's lifecourse theory, events that cause a change in an individual's criminal trajectory are called this.

What is turning points?

200

Describe what I mean when I say the ecological distribution of crime

The crime is clustered in space and theories should be able to explain why.


200

The definition of parsimony

Simplicity

200

True of false, feminist theories are limited to explaining only female offending

False

200

The city Shaw and McKay developed their theory of social disorganization

What is Chicago


300
How Moffitt's taxonomy explains the age crime curve
For most people, delinquency is a natural part of development that occurs when young adults are biologically mature yet do not have the full autonomy associated with adult-hood. Delinquency is a way to attain some independence. That need goes away once people reach a certain age.
300

This theorist is responsible for the invention of the panopticon.

Who is Jeremy Bentham?


300

The mode of adaptation that best describes a single mother who works weekends to provide a better life for her daughter.

Conformist

400

What are the three things deterrence theorists say should shape people's choice to engage in criminal behavior?

Celerity (Speed), Severity, Certainty

400

The word for a state of normlessness

anomie