Exam 3: Theories of Crime

Chicago--school criminologists rejected the role of external factors in causing crime.

List the three major levels of Kohlberg's theory of moral development.

According to Laub and Sampson, offenders who eventually adopt more conventional behavior typically experience .

Sheldon used this term to describe his three variations of the body.

According to operant conditioning, behavior is more likely to occur when it is rewarded and less likely to occur when it is punished or not rewarded.

Both Hooton and Lombroso believed that tattooing was the mark of an inferior person.

Labeling does not happen accidentally.

The basic idea of is that genes are, in part, responsible for behavior because they determine how our brains are constructed.

As a starting point in addressing the social condition of women, feminists employ the concept of , which argues that society has different expectations of females and males.

According to Tittle's theory, a person who either exerts too little control or too much control is more likely to break the law.

One method used to determine guilt or innocence in ancient times was .

Behaviorism focuses on unconscious forces and drives.

List Sykes and Matza's five techniques of neutralization:

examines how women are treated differently from men in a society dominated by men.

This theory is based on Durkheim's theory of anomie.

The school of criminology argues that people freely choose to break the law.

Bandura's most famous experiment was the "Bobo doll experiment."

According to Merton, individuals disregard the goal when the means are lacking.

states that people are guided by desire for pleasure and aversion to pain.

Neither Bentham nor Beccaria was concerned with why people broke the law.