Exam 10: Social Process and Control Theories of Crime

What does the term collective conscience mean?

Sutherland's differential association theory is hard to test because it uses too many different types of learning models.

The neutralizing techniques found primarily in corporate settings is ______,which essentially is the belief that an individual or group has done so much good that he or she is entitled to mess up by doing something illegal.

In the process of classical conditioning,the organism,animal,or person is a(an)______ actor in the process,simply receiving stimuli and responding.

Matza's drift theory is highly consistent with several of the ideas presented by control theorists,including all of the following assumptions EXCEPT:

Explain five (5)of the seven (7)propositions of differential reinforcement theory.

Learning theories believe that individuals enter the world with a blank slate,or tabula rasa.

______ is a learning model based on the association between an action and feedback following the action.

When criminal behavior is learned,the learning includes techniques of committing the crime,which are always very complicated.

Sutherland was interested in explaining:

What are the two (2)propositions related to control-balance theory?

Explain Hirschi's four elements of social bonding theory.

Sutherland's theory of differential association had ______ different elements.

Spanking is considered an example of ______.

The idea that criminal behavior is learned was a radical idea at the time it was presented.

Akers and Burgess integrated Sutherland's work with contributions from the field of ______.

Differential associations vary in all of the following EXCEPT:

Sutherland introduced ______theory.

______ assumes that all people would naturally commit crimes if not for restraints on the selfish tendencies that exist in every individual.

______ takes into account associations with persons and images presented in the media.