Exam 3: What Causes People to Commit Crimes

Integrated approaches to criminology try to combine various schools of thought regarding crime causation to explain criminal offending

Later in the 20^th century, some psychologists linked criminal behavior to a psychological condition called:

An early sociological explanation for criminal behavior was differential association theory, proposed by Edwin Sutherland.

The cognitive theory of criminal offending suggests that criminal offenders are psychotic

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

In the form of policing called community policing, the police rely on:

There are, perhaps, three theories of criminal offending that are useful for crime analysts

The English philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, proposed a neoclassical way of explaining crime; his view was that:

In In the standard model of policing, law enforcement provides services, primarily based on 911 calls and then investigates those calls for service. This is a:

Ideas and theories about what causes crime go back hundreds of years.

Cesare Beccaria wrote a book entitled On Crimes and Punishment in 1764 to provide an explanation of why people commit crimes

The classical school of criminology takes the position that people are irrational and have no free will

Children and teens can experience either of two forms of Disruptive Behavior Disorder (DBD):

Psychoanalysts viewed deviant and criminal behavior as resulting from:

Sociological explanations of crime look at criminal behaviors as emanating from environmental influences

In fulfilling their role in assisting law enforcement through the analysis of crime and disorder problems, a familiarity with criminological theories will be important to the crime analyst

Beccaria was responsible for the classical school of criminology.