Law and Politics

Crime victimization is not random.

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Most criminologists agree there is one major theory, which explains the majority of crime.

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Causal variables are variables that directly influence the outcome of relationships.

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Thorsten Sellin believed that the criminal laws of society reflect normative values of the dominant ...

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Those who advocate conflict theories and class and power inequality as the causes of crime are known ...

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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were proponents of the concentric zone model.

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Feminist criminology assumes that the underlying cause of criminal behavior by females is the ...

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Conflict theories are based on the assumption that individuals lose self-control.

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Social determinism is the idea that social forces are the root cause of crime.

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Sigmund Freud was considered a leading criminologist in his era.

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The belief that the punishment should fit the crime is a tenant of the positivist school.

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Freudian theory argues that ________.

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Sigmund Freud based his theory on the underlying assumption that behavior is ________.

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Cesare Lombroso and Richard Dugdale were proponents of ________.

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Which perspective emphasized that a person's criminal nature was an inherited characteristic?

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The central tenant of the positivist school of criminology is that ________.

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Whose theory of the "criminal man" was the first important positivist theory to emerge?

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Bentham's philosophy is called ________.

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Which one of the following men is credited with the formation of the neoclassical school of criminology?

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Theories that share the assumption of free will and rational choice are commonly called ________.

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An attempt to define and explain factors that predict behavior under certain conditions is termed ________.

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Which one of the following events below is evidence to that the American colonists believed in evil ...

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Visit the FBI website and search for the UCR. Write a report based on your search of the UCR. What ...

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Which method for measuring crime do you feel is most accurate? Explain your reasons why and how it ...

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Explain some of the major flaws in the UCR data.

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