1
_____________ Choice Theory holds the view that criminals choose crime after weighing and considering benefits and costs (p. 89).
2
________ deterrence holds that the greater the severity, certainty, and speed of legal sanctions the less included people will be to commit crime (p. 114).
3
Under biological-based trait theory, biocriminologists believe that physical, environmental, and social conditions work together to produce human _________ (p. 134 LO 2).
4
According to the evolutionary view, the competition for scarce resources has influenced and shaped the ____________ species (p 150).
5
Contemporary biosocial theorists differ from earlier theories that suggested that people were either born criminals or not, instead argue people carry the ___________ to be which environmental conditions can sometimes trigger (p. 151).
6
Exhibit 5.5 (p. 151) in your text lists three categories: Biochemical, Neurological, & ______.
7
According to Albert Bandura, people are not born violent, but ________ to be aggressive through life experiences (p. 159).
8
According to Social Learning theorists, violence and crime are learned through a process called behavior modeling which comes from four types of experiences: personal, ______, environmental, and media (p. 159).
9
_________ can be defined as the reasonably stable patterns of behavior, including thoughts and emotions that distinguish one person from another (p. 165).
10
Durkeim believed that crime was inevitable because of the ________ within society (p. 178).
11
Social criminologists of the Chicago School argued that ____________ conditions and not individual traits or choices were the key to crime (p. 179).
12
There are three branches of the Social Structure Theory: Social Disorganization, ________, and Cultural Deviance (p. 186)
13
Social Disorganization theory was first popularized by ______ and McKay (p. 187)
14
Under the Social Ecology school of thought, researchers focused their attention on the association between crime rates and community ___________ (p. 189).
15
Wilson and Kelling developed the Broken Windows theory that argued as neighborhood disorder increased it created fear and reduced the community’s ability to exert social _________ and that resulted in the decline of the neighborhood (p. 189/2).
16
Strain theorist believe that most people share similar values and goals, but their ability to achieve these goals is restricted by ______________ class (p. 196/2)
17
Durkheim believed an anomic society is one in which rules of __________ have broken down or become inoperative during periods of rapid social change or crisis, which is the basis of the Anomie theory (p. 197).
18
Those in the field of __________ criminology study the onset, continuation, and termination of criminal behavior over a person’s life (p. 295).
19
According to the Life __________ concept, factors that produce crime and delinquency at one point in a person’s life may not be relevant at another (p. 303/3).
20
Early onset criminals seem to be more involved in ______________ acts than late starters (p. 305).
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