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Criminology Theory Glossary

go unexplained based on ordinary criminological theory. Trait theory provides new explanations for odd behavior. At the same time,...

Marxist Criminology - An Overview

first understand where it differs from traditional schools of criminology, as the Marxist view is typically regarded as being a fo...

Criminology Theories, Biosocial and Classical

biological approaches to criminology, which take "into account the interplay of biological and socio-environmental factors," which...

Peter Maas' Story of Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano, Underboss

points and major events that are outlined by Maas as a central part of their own paper. In 1992, Gravano was the highest ranking ...

Crime, Criminology Theory, and Delinquency

of behavior upon individual members of the group" (Bursik & Grasmick, 1995, p. 110). Thomas and Znaniecki also included the term ...

The Feminist Movement and Criminology

Liberal feminism is characterized by operating with existing social structures to accomplish its goal or illuminating womens probl...

Criminal Justice II

ended at the boundaries of the Catholic church which was barely recognized by Anglicans. Not until the mid-18th century was...

Theories in Criminology

the author notes that labelists do not generally support such simplistic notions (Goode, 1994). In other words, one label does not...

Choice Theory from a Marxist Perspective

really not obvious in violent scenarios as it appears that everyone involved loses. The more obvious reasons that crime is committ...

Criminologist Sheldon Glueck and His Theory on Juvenile Delinquency:

in 1950 was named the first Roscoe Pound Professor of Law (Rubenser 183). In Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, which was first pub...

The Anomie Theory of Criminology

misguided ideas about what the discipline is all about. Many consider the science of criminology to be an outdated pseudo-science,...

Conflict and Social Control Theories of Criminology

as criminality is at its root a subset of the totality of human behavior, and even after hundreds of years of dedicated research, ...

Crime in the Newspapers: An Anomie-Oriented View

the crime being committed. First of all, the report indicates that the suspect was in his late 20s, had a beard, and wore a sloppi...

Delinquency Topics

to the ways in which individuals rationalize their behavior when their personal choices go against societal norms. Matza and his a...

Criminology and Risk Theory

institutional influence and power) and the emergence of a risk-fixated consciousness (Beck, 2006). Under such conditions, it becom...

The Biological Theory of Crime: The Social Implications

to criminal behavior are not so far-fetched. This paragraph stresses the risks of being too aggressive in intervention of "crimi...

Criminology Foundations

the components which make up the "ruling class domination" in regards to crime and why some criminal actions come to the attention...

Differential Association Theory and Crime

the subject. When approximations become regular, the psychologist the changes the expectations, and redirects the subject to an e...

Criminology Issues and Theories

considerations. CHAPTER 5 The basic assumptions about human behavior and the structure of society as they relate to the theories...

Crime and Punishment and Philosophy

was important to history, especially at a time when the slave trade was prominent in the New World. [2] Think about Martin Luther...

Integrating Various Theories of Criminology

as presented by traditional explanations (Elliott, 1985). Through integration, Elliott (1985) proposes that one achieves a theoret...

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

Control Theories of Criminology

In five pages criminology is examined in terms of control theories, their differences in focusing not on crime causes but on why c...

Theories of Criminology

activity is to inform the public, it also services as an educational device to remind the citizenry of the rules of that particula...

A Criminology Overview

also known as drift theory ("Control," 2001). This theory, as the name suggests, speculates that delinquents drift in and out of c...

Application of Criminal Schools of Thought

In ten pages this paper examines criminology in this theoretical overview that discusses conflict, social process, cultural devian...

19th Century US' Penitentiary System

more advanced in containing the criminal element than other states at the time. If not, why would the pair go to America to study ...

Field of Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology is examined in this fifteen page overview that includes criminology theories, law, applications, and case stud...

Old Criminology Theory of Thought

In his book The Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim proposed two concepts. First, that societies evolved from a simple, nonspec...

Corrections and Strategic Planning

In ten pages this paper discusses the importance of strategic planning in the prison system with criminology theories also examine...