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What are the three components of the criminal justice system?
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Police, courts and corrections
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What are the 3 schools?
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Classical, Positive, and Chicago
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Name the 5 characteristics of the Classical School
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1. free will and human rationality2. view of hedonistic behavior3. focus on morality & responsibility4. concern with political structure and the way government deals with its citizens5. concern for the basic right of all people
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Define Hedonistic behavior
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Seeking maximum pleasure with minimum consequences
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Define social learning theory
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The effect of behavior has an impact on the motivation of people to engage in that specific behavior.
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Differential Association Theory was created by...
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Edwin Sutherland in 1947
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Define the Differential Association Theory
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Explains deviancy by combining variables which encourages delinquency with variables that discouraged delinquency
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Akers & Burgess...
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1965-1966, they adapted Sutherland's theory to include reinforcement which increases or decreases the strength of the behavior
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Characteristic of Positive School
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Focus on criminal behavior and treatment
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Father of Sociology
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August Comte, 1798-1857, founder of the positive school based on the scientific method
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Who wrote the Criminal Man?
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Cesare Lombroso, 1876, suggested criminals are 'biological throwbacks' determined by physical anomalies
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William Sheldon
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1949, separated people into Somatotypes
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Name the 3 Somatotypes William Sheldon developed.
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(1) ectomorph - small frame(2) mesomorph - muscular frame(3) endomorph - obese frame
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Characteristic of the Chicago School
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Study of society and if it contributed to state of society (mass immigration to large cities contributed to an increase in crime and health issues)
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Who created Concentric circles of crime
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Park & Burgess
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