1. What is aetiology? a) the study of physical features to determine criminal activity b) how crime is caused c) the study of policing d) psychology of crime 2. What are the four stages of police cynicism? a) enjoyment‚ distrust‚ hostility‚ acceptance b) loyalty‚ questioning‚ realization‚ cynicism c) pseudo-cynicism‚ romantic cynicism‚ aggressive cynicism‚ resigned cynicism d) John Wayne cynicism‚ hero cynicism‚ uniformic cynicism‚ superior cynicism 3. Which of the following is NOT
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utilitarian goals achievable in a world of limiting retributivism? Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology‚ 99(3)‚ p. 789-821. Just Desserts. (n.d.) West’s Encyclopedia of American Law‚ edition 2. (2008). Retrieved January 25 2013 from http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Just+Desserts McKee‚ A. J. (2007). Justice. Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. doi:10.4135/9781412950664 Siegel‚ L. J. (2012). Criminology (11th ed.). Belmont‚ CA: Thomson/Wadsworth. Sullivan‚ L. E. (2007). Just desert. Encyclopedia
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Social Theories: How It Relates to Gangs & Gang Violence By Stuart Brown Criminology is a complex subject chock-full of theories that attempt to explain crime and criminal behavior. Each base theory has several branches of theory which expand upon and compliment their predecessors. Even some of the sub-theories have branches of theories. This paper is going to discuss two social theories; social structure and social process. It is also going to cover some of the branches
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(1996). A meta-analysis of the predictors of adult offender recidivism: What works! Criminology‚ 34(4)‚ 575-607. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/220697595?accountid=35812 Kovandzic‚ T. V.‚ Sloan‚ J. J.‚ & Vieraitis‚ L. M. (2004). "STRIKING OUT" AS CRIME REDUCTION POLICY: THE IMPACT OF "THREE STRIKES" LAWS ON CRIME RATES
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Research in regards to the effects of crime news on it’s consumers has been of great interest to sociologist and criminologist since the nineteenth century (Lotz‚ 1991)‚ and has develop under the perspective of *social constructionism*. The theory was originally composed by sociologists Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman in the mid 1960’s‚ in an attempt to explain how individuals form perceptions of reality from socially created entities‚ and socialization (1966). They preposed that society became
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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS‚ JUVENILE DELINQUENCY‚ AND ADULT CRIMINALITY* JOAN McCORD Temple University Home observations during childhood and criminal records 30 years later are used to address questions of relative impact among features of child rearing influencing male criminal outcomes The results suggest two mechanisms: Maternal behavior appears to influence juvenile delinquency and‚ through those effects‚ adult criminality. Paternal interaction with the family‚ however. appear to have a more direct
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Crime in America has been the be the most serious public issue in America since the beginning. Criminological have created many theories to try and understand how crime has changed over time. In early years many Criminologies were mainly studying the motivation for the crime and risk. But eventually‚ criminologists decide it was time to explain the criminality. Theories of criminality show the potential of the crime and the motivation to commit a crime (Miethe‚ Meier 1994). According to Henry and
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Steven D. Levitt‚ a professor of economics at the University of Chicago‚ proved the various uses for his field that I had never before realized. The first example of a use for economics that piqued my interest was the very first one in the book: criminology. Before reading this‚ I had assumed that the subject of economics was involved with nothing more than concepts like the elasticities of prices and interest rates. I was utterly shocked when Steven D. Levitt was able to conclude that the cause of
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Using material from item A and elsewhere‚ assess the value of the right realist approach to crime and deviance (21 marks) While theories such as critical criminology and labelling regard crime as socially constructed‚ realists see crime‚ as a real and growing problem that destroys communities‚ undermines social cohesion and threatens society’s work ethic. The right realist approach to crime has been very influential in the UK‚ the USA and elsewhere. For example its main theorist‚ James Q .Wilson
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Do young people exercise choice when they engage in acts of crime or are young people constrained or forced to act in socially unacceptable ways? There are a number of different theories that debate whether a young person exercises choice in committing crime or whether they are forced or constrained by other factors‚ to act in socially unacceptable ways. The following essay will examine a variation of individual‚ situational and structural theories that attempt to understand why young people
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