Midterm Flashcards
A movement and theory whose aim is the abolition of most coercive state institutions of social control because they are inherently repressive and harmful.
Abolitionism.
Theorist that focused on strain theory of negative relationships with others, delinquency as the result of pressure by negative states as anger and other negative emotions as a result of negative relationships.
Robert Agnew
Cesare Lombroso’s theory that physical attributes are associated with,or even cause, criminology behavior.
Born Criminal
part of the post-progressive era in social science movements that evolved in Chicago b/w 1915 and the early 1940s/
Chicago School of Criminology.
a criminology based on both free will and determinism and whose chief aim was to deter crime. It was a part of humanist reaction during the Enlightenment to the barbarities and the inequities characteristic of feudal systems of justice. Popularized by Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham.
Classical ciminology
an ancient theory that, when used in criminology, suggests that crime, criminalization, and criminal law must be seen in the overriding context of social, economic, and political inequality.
Conflict theory
A critical humanist theory advanced by ex-prisoners who claim that only they can fully understand the oppression and misery of prison life.
Convict criminology
in criminal law, crime is an action or omissions that is prohibited by law, that is voluntary, and that coincides with a defender’s mental state. Crime can be seen as a violations of conduct norms, as social harm, as violation of human animal rights, and as a form of deviance.
Crime
the prevalence of crime relative to the size of population.
Crime rate
refers to those traditional, illegal behaviours that most people think of as crime. Most crime is conventional crime. Non-conventional crime, may be organized crime, white-collar crime, political crime, etc.
Conventional Crime
collection of crime data by the government, or non government agencies. (Uniform Crime Reports, National Crime Victimization Survey and federal records of corporate crime.
Crime Data Sources
developed from the radical, conflict, and feminist criminologies of the 1960s, 70s, 80s. Umbrella term for several other perspectives that began to emerge in the mid- to late 1980s and that continue to flourish today.
Critical criminology
a derogatory term used by law-abiding citizens to describe those members of the working classes, the unemployed, and the unemployed who seemed to pose a threat to law and order.
Dangerous classes
The influence of social class, values, traditions of anomie
Delinquency subculture
Based on the image of criminals as rational, calculating actors, this theory looks for ways to persuade potential criminals to desist from their illegalities.
Deterrence theory
