Criminal Justice Theory: Core Concepts of Crime, Rational Choice and Punishment

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What is an assumption that attempts to explain why or how things are related to each other?

What term describes the explanation of criminal behavior and the behavior of various actors in the criminal justice process?

What concept assumes individuals behave rationally and break the law if it pays to do so?

What is an imaginary agreement to sacrifice the minimum amount of liberty necessary to prevent anarchy and chaos?

What is the prevention of individuals from committing crimes again by punishing them called?

What is the attempt to prevent people in general from engaging in crime by punishing specific individuals?

What is a modification of classical theory conceding that factors like insanity might inhibit free will?

According to biological theories, what distinguishes criminals from noncriminals?

What is the study of 'criminal' human beings called?

What term describes a person who reverts to a savage type?

What structure surrounding the brain stem controls life functions and moderates expressions of violence?

What term describes persons with no sense of guilt or empathy, often having difficulty forming relationships?

What is the dissociation of the individual from the collective conscience called?

What term describes the general sense of morality of the times?

What condition involves the absence of usual controls over delinquents and approval of delinquent behavior?

What is the means by which a person can learn new responses by observing others without direct reinforcement?

What theory suggests that criminal behavior is learned through contacts with criminal definitions?

What theory explains criminal behavior using concepts like reinforcement and modeling?

What is the presentation of a stimulus that increases or maintains a response called?

What is the removal of a stimulus whose removal increases or maintains a response?

What is the process in which behavior that was previously reinforced is no longer enforced?

What is the presentation of an aversive stimulus to reduce a response called?

What theory expects people to commit crime unless prevented by social controls?

What theory emphasizes the criminalization process as the cause of some crime?

What is the process by which people and actions are defined as criminal?

What theory assumes society is based on conflict between interest groups and uses criminal law to control subordinate groups?

What term describes the ability of some groups to dominate others in society?

In conflict theory, what is the inability to dominate other groups in society called?

What theories of crime causation are generally based on a Marxist theory of class struggle?

For radical criminologists, what causes crime through competition among different social classes?

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