Crimsoc Flashcards
(14 cards)
What theory assumes human behavior has been integrated into numerous criminological theories and criminal justice interventions?
Rational Choice Theory
This theory believes that individuals choose to commit a crime, looking at opportunities before them, weighing benefits versus punishment, and deciding whether to proceed or not.
Rational Choice Theory
This theory pioneering control theorist claimed that a strong self-image insulates a youth from pressure and pulls off criminogenic influence in the environment.
Containment Theory
This theory claims that all individuals are potential law violators but are kept under control because they fear that illegal behavior will damage their relationship with the members of society.
Social bond theory
This theory states that crime is a social fact and holds that crime is the function of the conflict between the goals, people have and the means they can use to obtain them legally
Strain theory
It is a form of consequentialism because it rests on the idea that the consequences or results of actions, laws, and policies determine whether they are good or bad, right or wrong.
Utilitarianism
A feminist school of thought emerged regarding deviance, simply the idea that liberal ideals of equality and rights of liberties apply to women.
Liberal Feminism
Feminist school of thought, according to this school of thought, patriarchy, meaning that male domination over females keeps women more attached to the family, children, and home.
Radical feminism
This school of thought argues that women’s deviancy is the by-product of the exploitation of capitalism and patriarchy.
Social feminism
Theorists claim that individuals are rational beings capable of making informed decisions, and therefore rule breaking is a rational, conscious decision.
Reparations
It allows for punishments to be imposed that are disproportionate to the harm done, for the innocent to be punished, and for the punishment of crimes that have not yet been committed.
Retribution
The justification in criminal justice is based on the idea that crimes should be corrected by requiring offenders to make amends with the victims to repair the wrong that they have done.
Reparations
The justification in criminal justice is based on the idea that crimes should be corrected by requiring offenders to make amends with the victims to repair the wrong that they have done.
Reparations
According to R.A 11131 known as an act creating the board of examiners for criminologists in the Philippines, on the table of specifications, how many percent of questions is given to Criminology?
20%
