Student Study Guide for Ronald L. Akers and Christine S. Sellers’ Criminological Theories: Introduction‚ Evaluation‚ and Applications Fourth Edition Prepared by Eric See Youngstown State University Roxbury Publishing Company Los Angeles‚ California 1 Student Study Guide by Eric See for Criminological Theories: Introduction‚ Evaluation‚ and Application ‚ 4th Edition by Ronald L. Akers and Christine S. Sellers Copyright © 2004 Roxbury Publishing Company‚ Los Angeles‚ California
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Forensic psychology‚ specifically‚ offender or criminal profiling has exponentially increased in popularity since its inception. It has spread though out the United States and internationally and this popularity is due mainly to massive media frenzies that focused on high-profile cases as well as the fictional movie‚ based on a book by Thomas Harris‚ Silence of the Lambs (Huss‚ 2001). Another reason for the wide interest in profiling is that people have a need to know who and why and additionally
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with Cesare‚ comes to the town for a show in fair. Cesare is so called capable of predicting the future and tells a young man names Alan that he could only live till dawn. The prediction come true and it turns out Cesare murders Alan that night. On the other hand‚ Dr. Caligari also orders Cesare to kill Jane‚ a young girl in the town. However‚ Cesare is captivated
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psychodynamic and behaviourist. During the Victorian time‚ they believed that it was possible to spot a criminal by their features. Lombroso suggested that criminals form a separate species which is more primitive to humans; this was displayed through certain characteristics. For example; a narrow sloping brow‚ high cheekbones‚ large ears and a crooked or flat nose. Lombroso sampled the proportions of 383 skulls of dead criminals and 3‚839 heads of living ones. He didn’t suggest that all criminal acts
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physical and mental illness‚ malfunctions or deformities.Solutions: Education‚ re-education‚ hospitalization‚ rehabilitation‚ imprisonment‚ capital punishment. 2. BIOLOGICAL THEORY – relates that behavior is a result of genetic aberrations. Cesare Lombroso – an Italian criminologist who studied the skulls and bodies of many prisoners‚ reported that there are “animalistic” physical patterns found in criminals‚ savages and apes; that people with enormous jaws‚ high cheekbones‚ and prominent superciliary
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Juvenile Delinquency “Humanity has the stars in its future‚ and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.” --- Isaac Asimov Americans today are often bound to the stereotype that poor parental child-rearing methods‚ peer pressure and poverty are the cause of juvenile delinquency in America. However‚ the truth is that there are far more factors other than these‚ major and minor‚ that contribute to the cause of juvenile delinquency
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Two different explanations that explains criminal behaviour is due to social factors or appearance. The first difference which explains criminal behaviour is a cultural explanation known as social learning theory‚ which consist of operant conditioning‚ classical conditioning‚ social learning theory and sociological learning theory. The theories propose a person’s behaviour is learned and maintained by its consequences‚ or reward value. These consequences may be external reinforcement such as money
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Understanding A Diverse Society. Thomson Wadsworth‚ USA Andersen M Becker H. S (1963)‚ p.9 Studies of the Sociology of Deviance. London‚ Free Press. Becker‚ H. S. (1964) The Other Side: Perspectives on Deviance. New York: The Free Press‚ Downs D Lombroso C‚ Gibson M‚ Rafter N (2006). Criminal Man. London; Duke University. Henry S.‚ Lanier M. (2001) What Is Crime? Controversies Over the Nature of Crime and What to Do About It? Rowman & Littlefield‚ USA. Lemert‚ E. M. (1967)‚ Human Deviance‚ Social
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FINAL EXAM – SOCIOLOGY 120 SECTION A 1. Social Mobility Common in a class system: an open society Meaning = The movement‚ upwards or down the social hierarchy. Types of Social Mobility: * Vertical mobility Changes-upwards and downwards the social status/classes. * Horizontal Mobility Change that does involve changes in monetary rewards. * Intergenerational mobility Inter: in between‚ generation: 30
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari In this essay‚ I will firstly provide a brief definition of German Expression in Cinema. Secondly‚ I will provide a brief explanation of how German Expression is applied to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I will then provide an analysis of three key scenes in the light of Hake’s observation. The analysis will exemplify my argument that the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is an external world where the internal political conflicts and ambivalences of the artists and society are projected
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