Exam 2: Explanations for Organized Crime

The _____________ is characterized principally by conduct that reflects values antithetical to the surrounding culture.​

Inadequate familial socialization prevents some persons from:​

According to _____________ theory,all behavior-lawful and criminal-is learned in intimate personal groups,although learning the techniques of sophisticated criminality requires the proper environment.​

Define and explain what is meant by a "psychopath."​

The connection between the criminal organizations of southern Italy-Mafia,Camorra,'Ndrangheta-and American organized crime are the _____________,who are recent immigrants.​

Which of the following is $\underline{\text{NOT}}$ one of Merton's suggested modes of adaptation to deal with strain?​

Describe the theory of ethnic succession as it is used in the context of organized crime.​

The theory of _____________ asserts that illegitimate opportunity for success,like legitimate opportunity,is not equally distributed throughout society and access to criminal ladders of success is no more freely available than are noncriminal alternatives.​

According to _____________ theory,each successive immigrant group experienced strain to which some members reacted by innovating in accord with a tradition that had been established by earlier American entrepreneurs.​

Central to the psychoanalytic explanation for crime is the _____________,a conscience-like mechanism whose function is to restrain the person from antisocial behavior.​

Clinical psychology is based,to various extents,on psychoanalytic theory,a body of work fathered by:​

According to psychoanalytic theorists,criminal behavior is related to the superego function.​

Which of the following scholars stated that "American preoccupation with economic success,coupled with socioeconomic stratification,causes strain"?​

According to differential association theory,the principal part of _____________ occurs within intimate personal groups.​

How does the differential association theory explain why organized crime is more likely to occur in certain neighborhoods?​

According to strain theorists,which of the following may result if a number of people are confronted by the contradiction between goals and means,and as a result become estranged from society?​

Recent biological theories of crime identify which of the following as playing a part in criminal behavior?​

_____________ theory argues that criminals organize their behavior according to the norms of a delinquent or criminal group to which they belong or with which they identify.​

Persons with low levels of the neurotransmitter ____________are more inclined toward aggression and violence than those with normal levels.​

According to _____________ theorists,delinquent acts result when an individual's bond to society is weak or broken and the strength of this bond is determined by external and internal restraints.​