Chapter 1-- Criminology

Flashcards for Estrella Mountain criminology class.

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Scientific study of the nature, extent, cause and control of criminal behavior
Criminology
Theory of crime causation: crime is viewed as a function of personality, development, social learning or cognition
Psychosocial
Theory of crime causation: Correlations of antisocial behavior such as biochemical, genetic and neurological links to crime
Biological
Theory of crime causation: Social forces producing criminal behavior such as neighborhood conditions, poverty, socialization and group interaction
Sociological
Victim's behavior is often a key determinate of crime

Studying victim culpability in the participation of crime

Designing services for crime victims
Victimology
First scholar to develop a systematic understanding of why people commit crimes

Created classical criminology: people have free will to choose criminal or law solution
Cesare Beccaria
Founder of sociology and _______

_______ uses problem formulation and hypothesis creation to conduct research of data, observation, experimentation.
Auguste Comte & Positivism
Father of criminology and _______

________ thought that criminals were how they were because of atavisitc anonmalies (head & jaw shape)
Cesare Lombroso & Biological determinism
Used societial stats to investigate the influences of social factors and the propensity of crime

Discovered that season, climate, population and poverty were linked to crime
Emile Durkheim
Examined neighborhood conditions & poverty levels that influenced crime rates
Chicago School-- Robert Ezra Pound, Earnest W. Burgess and Louis Wirth
Children developing in conditions that foster inadequate self images, which render them incapable of controlling their own misbehavior
Socialization as a result of criminal activity
Human behavior is shaped by interpersonal conflict and that those who maintain social power will use it to further their own ends
Conflict theory (Marx)
Crime is a product of the capitalist system; the economic system produces conditions that support a higher crime rate
Critical criminology (Marx)
Behavior that departs from social norm but not necessarily criminal
Deviance
An act that is deemed dangerous and socially harmful, specifically defined, prohibited and punished under law
Crime