Reintegrative Shaming Project Team B CJA/314 Instructor: Gregory Mc Clelland 25 August 2014 Reintegrative Shaming Project There are two programs that we can look into in hopes to help offenders reduce recidivism. Looking into one of these programs will help offenders to begin to feel confident and want something better for themselves. They will want to become a positive part of society and possibly help in ways to keep others from starting a life of crime. As a society‚ we want to figure
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Assess the usefulness of crime statistics to a sociological understanding of crime? Criminal statistics are usually quoted as ’hard facts’; are often used to support the view that there is a rapidly increasing rate of serious crime in modern society. It is on the basis of these statistics that important decisions are made by governments in relation to their policies towards crime and its treatment. However the positivistic reliance on such statistics as the basis of their sociology has been brought
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The Integral Role Sentencing Plays In the Criminal Justice Process There are four philosophies that are considered when it comes to the sentencing of a criminal. These philosophies are: Retribution- Retribution is a philosophy that a wrong doer who has freely chosen to violate society’s rules must be punished. Retribution relies on the principal of “just deserts”‚ this holds that the severity of the punishment hold to the severity of the crime. This philosophy is not the same as revenge
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Victim Typologies Criminology and Victimology Mary Caplette CJ266 2/20/2012 There are five types of victim typologies that Selin & Wolfgang offer. The list consists of Primary Victimization‚ Secondary Victimization‚ Tertiary Victimization‚ Mutual Victimization‚ and No Victimization. Below I will describe each in a detailed manner. I would like to start with Primary Victimization. That is described as a one person target. What that refers to is that it is personalized or an
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Biosocial Theory and Social Structure Theory The discussion of the biosocial theory and the social structure theory in criminology has churned for years and has stemmed from the idea of nature or nurture. These two theories were derived and heavily influenced by the Darwinian theory of Pangenesis and natural selection; in the earlier times of this debate‚ the dominant view was the biosocial theory which claimed crime is the product of biological and environmental factors. After the emergence of sociology
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Choose one of the following socio-demographic characteristics: age‚ sex‚ ethnicity‚ or socio-economic status (SES). Describe its relationship to crime‚ paying attention to whether that relationship is observable at the individual and/ or the aggregate-level. What are the major theoretical explanations for that relationship? To what extent are the results of prior empirical research consistent with those theoretical explanations? Women have traditionally been perceived as “the nurturer’s” in
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Discuss the influence of press and media in shaping the public’s fear about crime. Use examples from recent press and media coverage of crime to illustrate your answer. An area that has caused much debate in criminology is the significance of the media and the effect is has on fear of crime. Fear of crime is very difficult to measure as there are different types of fear and also different levels of fear but it is believed that the press and media can influence an individual to think that
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Specific Deterrence Critical Thinking Critique Your name Park University Author Note This paper was prepared for Criminology CJ200‚taught by Professor____________. The theory of specific deterrence holds that criminal sanctions should be so powerful that known criminals will never repeat their criminal acts. Critical Thinking The theory of specific deterrence holds that criminal sanctions should be powerful enough that convicted criminals will never repeat the criminal
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Smith & Holborn‚ 1996 p.514). These explanations of human behavior became popular in the nineteenth century. An Italian army doctor; Cesare Lombroso was one of the first writers to link crime to human biology. Psychological theories of criminology share several similarities with biological theories. Firstly‚ they see criminals as different from the population as a whole. Second‚ the criminal is abnormal in a normal population. Third‚ the criminal’s abnormality predisposes him to crime (Harambolos
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Agnew‚ R. (1985). A Revised Strain Theory of Delinquency. Social Forces‚ 64(1)‚ 151-167. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. Agnew‚ R. (1992). Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency. Criminology‚ 30(1)‚ 47-87. Agnew‚ R. (2010). A general strain theory of terrorism. Theoretical Criminology‚ 14(2)‚ 131-153. doi:10.1177/1362480609350163 Aseltine Jr.‚ R Baron‚ S. W. (2007). Street Youth‚ Gender‚ Financial Strain‚ and Crime: Exploring Broidy and Agnew ’s Extension to General Strain Theory
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