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Criminologists recognize the classical and the positivist
two major schools of
thought or belief systems
as among the first
attempts to organize a
view of crime causation:
________ schools of
criminology.
The ________ school of the classical
criminology viewed the
criminal as having free
will, the freedom of
individual choice to
choose a criminal path
deliberately.
________ assumes that the rational choice theory
criminals choose to
commit crime because
they believe that the
benefits they will derive
will overshadow the risks
of getting caught.
,Jeremy Bentham hedonistic calculus
proposed that people
acted in a way that
brought them the greatest
pleasure and the least
pain and that they would
not commit crime if the
pain of punishment was
greater than what might
be gained from carrying
out the crime. This idea
was known as Bentham's
________.
Which of the following is severity
NOT one of Cesare
Beccaria's criteria for
punishment?
______ is an ethical Utilitarianism
philosophy of social
control that focused on
imposing punishments that
were believed best for the
majority of people in
society.
How is the neoclassical The neoclassical school assumes that some people
school different from the (e.g., children and the insane) cannot reason.
classical school?
criminal behavior is a product of biological,
Determinism is the idea
psychological, and social forces that are beyond a
that:
person's control.
Who is known as the cesar lombroso
father of modern
criminology?
, _______ is the belief that atavism
criminals are evolutionally
primitive or subhuman
people characterized by
certain "inferior"
identifiable physical and
mental characteristics.
Which of the following The scan of an impulsive murderer shows shades of
statements is true about blue and green in the prefrontal cortex, reflecting
the neurobiological reduced activity in this region.
factors of brain function?
The male sex hormone testosterone
________ has long been
associated with aggressive
behavioral tendencies
such as competitiveness
and dominance.
Greg walks into a low levels of cortisol in his body
convenience store with a
gun. He points the gun at
the cashier and demands
that she empties the
money from the register
into his bag. During the
robbery, Greg is calm and
collected. Once he gets
the money, he calmly
walks out of the store.
Greg's ability to stay calm
is the result of:
Adopted children are their biological parents are criminals
most likely to grow up to
be criminals if their: