Exam 3: The Search for Causes

A condition said to exist when a group is faced with social change,uneven development of culture,maladaptiveness,disharmony,conflict,and lack of consensus is known as:

Define and comment on the conflict perspective theory of crime causation,including social policy and peacemaking criminology.

An explanation that accounts for a set of facts that can be tested by further investigation is known as:

Feminist criminology is a developing intellectual approach that emphasizes gender issues in criminology.

Sigmund Freud is most closely related to which type of psychological theory:

Compare and contrast the Psychological and Sociological theories of the causation of crime.Which of the two,if any,in your opinion is a valid theory on the causes of crime? Support your views with facts and data.

List and define the basic assumptions of classical theories of crime causation,and the neoclassical perspective.

The attempt to categorize,understand,and predict the behavior of certain types of offenders based on behavioral clues they provide is known as _________________ profiling.

A fairly new perspective that holds that crime-control agencies and the citizens they serve should work together to alleviate social problems and human suffering and thus reduce crime is known as ___________________ criminology.

Subculture of violence is a belief that an area's physical features may be modified and structured so as to reduce crime rates in that area and to lower the fear of victimization that residents experience.

A perspective on criminological thought that views offensive and deviant behavior as the product of dysfunctional personality is:

The social _______________ theory is a psychological perspective that says that people learn how to behave by modeling themselves after others whom they have the opportunity to observe.

In 2013,Connecticut Chief Medical Examiner H.Wayne Carver,ordered the testing of Newton,Connecticut,school shooter Adam Lanza's DNA in an effort to determine "if he possessed any genetic abnormalities that could have led to his violent behavior." This is an examples of which of the theories listed below?

Franz Joseph Gall is most closely associated with the __________ theory of the causation of crime.

The defensible space theory occurs when violence is a traditional and often accepted method of dispute resolution.

A ___________ is a set of interrelated propositions that attempt to describe,explain,predict,and ultimately control some class of events.

The ________________ is an eighteenth-century approach to crime causation and criminal responsibility that emphasizes free will and reasonable punishments.

Reaction formation is the process whereby a person openly rejects that which he or she wants or aspires to but cannot obtain or achieve.

A violation of social norms defining appropriate or proper behavior under a particular set of circumstances is known as: