CJUS EXAM 2 with answers
Psychological Profiling - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The attempt to
categorize, understand, and predict the behavior of certain types of
offenders based on behavioral clues they provide.
Father of Modern Criminology/
Classical Criminology - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Cesare Beccaria
Routing Activities Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔View that crime
is a normal function of the routine activities of modern living;
offenses can be expected if there is a motivated offender, and a
suitable target that is not protected by capable guardians.
Routing Activities Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Motivated
Offender
- Suitable Target
- Lack of Capable Guardians
Social Learning Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Hypothesizes
that delinquency is learned through close relationships with others;
asserts that children are born good and learn to be bad from others.
- Differs from Social Control Theory because it says that delinquency
results from a weakened commitment to the major social
institutions (family, peers, and school).
Principles of Differential Association - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-
Delinquent behavior is learned.
- Learning is a by product of interaction
- Learning occurs within intimate groups.
, - Criminal Techniques are learned.
- Perception of legal code influence motives and drives.
- Differential Associations may vary in duration, frequency, priority,
and intensity.
Labeling Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Social groups create
deviance by making rules whose infractions constitute deviance,
and by applying those rules to particular people and labeling them
as outsiders
Stigmatize - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔To mark someone with
disgrace or reproach; to characterize or brand someone as
disgraceful or disreputable.
Reintegrative Shaming - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Techniques used
to allow offenders to understand and recognize their wrongdoing
and shame themselves.
Cesare Lombroso - Atavism - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A condition
characterized by the existence of features thought to be common in
earlier stages of human evolution. It takes a look at physical
abnormalities.
Heritability - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A statistical construct that
estimates the amount of variation in the traits of a population that
is attributable to genetic factors.
Behavioral Conditioning - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A psychological
principle that holds that the frequency of any behavior can be
increased or decreased through reward, punishment, or association
with other stimuli.
Causation - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The fact that the concurrence
of a guilty mind and a criminal act may cause harm.
Psychological Profiling - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The attempt to
categorize, understand, and predict the behavior of certain types of
offenders based on behavioral clues they provide.
Father of Modern Criminology/
Classical Criminology - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Cesare Beccaria
Routing Activities Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔View that crime
is a normal function of the routine activities of modern living;
offenses can be expected if there is a motivated offender, and a
suitable target that is not protected by capable guardians.
Routing Activities Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Motivated
Offender
- Suitable Target
- Lack of Capable Guardians
Social Learning Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔- Hypothesizes
that delinquency is learned through close relationships with others;
asserts that children are born good and learn to be bad from others.
- Differs from Social Control Theory because it says that delinquency
results from a weakened commitment to the major social
institutions (family, peers, and school).
Principles of Differential Association - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔-
Delinquent behavior is learned.
- Learning is a by product of interaction
- Learning occurs within intimate groups.
, - Criminal Techniques are learned.
- Perception of legal code influence motives and drives.
- Differential Associations may vary in duration, frequency, priority,
and intensity.
Labeling Theory - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Social groups create
deviance by making rules whose infractions constitute deviance,
and by applying those rules to particular people and labeling them
as outsiders
Stigmatize - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔To mark someone with
disgrace or reproach; to characterize or brand someone as
disgraceful or disreputable.
Reintegrative Shaming - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Techniques used
to allow offenders to understand and recognize their wrongdoing
and shame themselves.
Cesare Lombroso - Atavism - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A condition
characterized by the existence of features thought to be common in
earlier stages of human evolution. It takes a look at physical
abnormalities.
Heritability - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A statistical construct that
estimates the amount of variation in the traits of a population that
is attributable to genetic factors.
Behavioral Conditioning - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔A psychological
principle that holds that the frequency of any behavior can be
increased or decreased through reward, punishment, or association
with other stimuli.
Causation - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The fact that the concurrence
of a guilty mind and a criminal act may cause harm.
