Law and Politics

When individuals minimize their failures or accept responsibility for their failures they are ...

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Strain theory makes extensive use of psychology in almost all its ideas about the effects of stress ...

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Messner and Rosenfeld's strain theory has NOT received as much empirical testing as Agnew's strain theory.

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Merton pointed out that sometimes what is considered a virtue can lead to vice.

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External circumstances that place us in situations we don't like are major components in most strain theories.

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Criminologists have found overwhelming support for all versions of strain theory.

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Agnew's general strain theory departed from Merton's strain theory by expanding on the sources of ...

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According to general strain theory, crime will be more likely when individuals only express criminal beliefs.

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While Durkheim argued that anomie was the result of poor regulation by social institutions, Merton ...

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Which type of coping in Agnew's strain theory is most commonly characterized by a tendency to not ...

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Which part of Agnew's strain theory has yet to be extensively empirically tested?

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Which part of Agnew's strain theory borrows the most from other theories of crime?

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Which of the following was NOT a criticism in the criminological literature of Merton's strain theory?

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Which component of Messner and Rosenfeld's institutional anomie theory is the one which says all ...

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What was Cloward and Ohlin's strain theory called in criminology?

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What component of general strain theory would involve, for example, a person who feels that others ...

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In Merton's strain theory, which way of coping with strain would be typical of a revolutionary or ...

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Durkheim studied what kind of crime to demonstrate the causal influence of anomie?

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Discuss the nine propositions of differential association theory and further elaborate on the two ...

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Why is it that Sutherland's differential association theory is considered the first general theory of crime?

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Describe Walter Miller's focal concerns theory and differences from other delinquency theories? ...

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When an individual observes behavior in others and mimics it without necessarily understanding the ...

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Of Miller's focal concerns, __________ was identified as the ability to be cunning, or "outsmarting" others.

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According to the differential association theory, associations that develop earliest in life are ...

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__________ theories emphasize the influence of the social environment and the socialization process ...

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