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    CIS170 Crime Theories Professor Randy Smith January 24‚ 2012 The purpose of this paper is to select one (1) of the theories suggested to be the cause of digital crime and explain the theory in your own words as it relates to crime in general‚ and describe why the theory chosen could be recognized as the most relevant in terms of being a cause of digital crime. Differential-association theory: Edwin Sutherland coined the phrase differential association to address the issue of how people learn

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    Why do people commit crime? This is relatively strong topic discussed by sociologists that believe criminal or deviant behaviors are not because of ones physical characteristic. This essay will mainly focus on the Functionalist and Conflict Theories of crime. Conflict theorist argue that deviance is deliberately chosen‚ and often political in nature‚ where as Functionalist theorist argue that deviance and crime is caused by structural tensions created by social structure. Functionalists argue that

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    The story that I will be sharing to better understand the Status Deviance Theory is a story when my co-worker Rick was hired as a personal trainer at the World gym in Wantagh‚ New York‚ where I work. For the past four years Rick had been a personal trainer at two other gyms around the area of Wantagh as well as World gym’s main competitor Equinox gym. The head personal trainer‚ Martin was the manager of all World gym’s personal trainers and with this position came the duty of hiring new trainers

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ……………………………………………………..1 Differential association theory………………..………………….2 Anomie theory……………………………………………………5 Conclusion……………………………………………………….11 References ………………………………………………………..13 INTRODUCTION The crime rate is on the rise in Kenya some theories try to define these rising criminality in Kenya. Anomie theory and differential association theory best explain the rising criminality in Kenya like for example in Kenya many individuals

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    Theories of Crime Biological Positivism Lombroso (1876) believed that evolution could explain behaviour. He thought that many criminals were found to have a distinctive physique‚ such as protruding ears‚ sloping foreheads‚ long arms‚ a prominent jaw and a receding chin. He described criminals as being ‘atavistic’ similar to an earlier form of evolutionary life. Sheldon (1949) also believed a criminal was determined by someone’s body type‚ he believed there were three body types‚ endomorph: short

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    What is deviance? Deviance is the violation of cultural norms. The norms set by the society are followed by almost everyone in the society‚ so deviance is a quiet broad and deviance is varied according to different cultures. Some of the theories which discuss deviance are: structural-functional theory‚ symbolic-interaction‚ and social conflict theory. Structural-functional theory approaches deviance as a necessary part of the social organization. They believed that deviance helps create social

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    deviating from the norm is inevitable (Abotchie‚ 2008). Deviance and crime are and have always been a danger to the calmness and tranquility enjoyed by members of a community. Beside the gradual moral degeneration which can befall perpetrators when they are embittered with deviance and crime‚ there arise huge custody‚ health and economic cost to be borne by a nation full of the issue of crime (Simões‚ Matos & Batista-Foguet‚ 2008). For this reason‚ crime among children has now become one of the important

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    Using material from Item B and elsewhere‚ assess explanations for apparent ethnic differences in involvement in crime (21 Marks) According to official statistics‚ ethnic minorities are largely linked to crime and their involvement if often over exaggerated. Item B shows that black people make up 11% of the prison population‚ despite the fact they make up just 2.8% of the population. Whilst‚ Asians make up 4.7% of the population yet 6% of the prison population. These statistics emphasise that ethnic

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    are important. 3b}A primary group is based upon intimate; long term face to face interaction and cooperation. A secondary group is based upon a more temporary‚anonymous and larger then a primary groups. 3c} My family is a primary group and this sociology class is a secondary group In my life. 4a}The intent was to study the social connection on social networks. 4b} The concept that emerged was called the small world phenomenon or the six degas of separation. 5a}The dysfunction of this organization

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    Crime Theories Jaime Morris Professor Al CIS170-Wk.4Ass.2 11/04/12 Digital crimes are believed to be caused by different types of theories. The Strain theory could be the cause of digital crimes because the strain of everyday life. The Strain theory is a sociological theory. The strain of an individual’s everyday life is causing people to “give in” to the pressures in society. Some of these individuals feel that they can’t survive without crime. Strains such as peer pressure

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