Exam 3: What Causes People to Commit Crimes

Cognitive theories of criminal behaviour indicate that criminal offending results from habits of thought & interpretations of reality

In the Middle Ages, there seemed little differentiation between sin & crime.

In this book, On Crimes and Punishment, Beccaria explained his belief that people are:

An early positivist was Cesare Lombroso, who considered biological attributes to be:

All psychological explanations look inside the human mind for the causes of criminal offending

In the later half of the 19^th century, the scientific approach gave rise to the:

Intelligence-led policing relies heavily on:

The positivist school saw human behavior as based on a combination of internal and external influences

Integrated approaches, such as life-course theory, combine various schools of thought regarding crime causation in order to explain:

Several police strategies have been created as intervention and prevention efforts to directly address the crime problem; these models and methods should be:

For the crime analyst, analyzing the reasons why a particular criminal is engaging in a series of offenses may be important in contributing to law enforcement efforts to:

According to the authors of the book, Crime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach, three theories that provide the greatest utility for the crime analyst are Rational Choice Theory, Routine Activities Theory, and:

In the broken windows model of policing, Wilson and Kelling proposed that the police should focus on:

In the Problem-Oriented Policing approach, the idea is that the police should take a:

Social bonding theory states that:

More recently, some psychologists have linked criminal behavior to a psychological condition called disruptive behavior disorder (DBD)

Samuel Yochelson and Stanton Samenow theorized that criminals choose to commit crimes and that the cause of the choice to commit crimes is related to:

The victim precipitation theory is based on the premise that:

Beginning in the 1930s, sociological explanations of crime proposed that:

Some psychologists have developed a cognitive theory of crime. Cognitive theory suggests that criminals: