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Undergraduate 1
03/03/2008

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Demonlogical
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Theological, Supernatural
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Classical
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Philisophical, rational
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Jermy Benthram
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Hedonistic Calculus
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Cesare Beccaria
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"On Crimes and Punishment"

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Andrew Guerry
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Ecological/cartographic school of crime
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Adolphe Quetlet

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Thermic Law of Crime
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Willem Bonger
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Applied Marxist thought to crime
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Demonological
Definition
The earliest theories of crime causation were?
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The punishment should be proportional to the crime
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The "concept of proportionality" suggets that:
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False

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Karl Marx wrote extensively on the topic of crime causation  true or false?
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Trial by ordeal
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"Women accused of witchcraft were tied up and thrown in the water.  If they survived, they were innocent."  This type of practice is known as:
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True
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According to Beccaria, if punishment is too harsh it could result in more crime.  true or false
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laws understandable to public, punishment equal to crime
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Cecare Beccaria suggested many reforms to the criminal justice system.  List 2 of the reforms that he suggested. 
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Hedonistic
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To seek pleasure and avoid pain.  These people are called
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Classical School (Theory)
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Emphasizes Ratinality and free will, crime is a cncious choice
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Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) Italy
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Wrote the book "on crimes and punishment", Believed in equal treatment, due process.  Innocent till proven guilty, trial by jury. 
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Deterrence
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to turn ppl away by fear of punishment

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ratinal, reason, free wil
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Humans are ?
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Certainty, Swiftness, Severity
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What are the 3 characteristics of punishment?
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General deterence
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Detering society
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Specific Deterence
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INdividual being punished
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Hedonistic Calculus

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produces positive result and allows to avoid negative result
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Free will can be constrained, explains prior behavior, certain groups of offenders are less capable of free will
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Name 3 major modifications to the Neo Classical Theory
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Rational Choice Theory
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Cornisk and Clark.  Crime not rational, choice based on cost, benifit and oppurtunity, situational crime control
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Routine Activitists Theory
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Choen and Felisun.  Understood Victimization. 
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Modivated Offender
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will commit crime of oppurtunity
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Suitable Target
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Person, Place
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Absense of capable guardians
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no one to predict
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Ecological Theory
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Official data/ statistical analysis use maps (cartography)

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Human Ecology
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Inter-relationships between human organisms and the physical enviroment
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Andre Guerry
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*Pioneer*, founder of Cartographical school of crime.  Used maps to descreibe and analize variations in french crime rates, exteneded poverty crime.  He also Found that wealthier areas had more property crime compared to rural areas
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Comparative Studies
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Examined/compared french/english crime statistics
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Adolfe Quatlet
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First Scientific Criminologist.  he challenged the classical perspective and found remarkable consistancy in patterns of crime (age, gender, sex)
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Thermic Law of Crime
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crimes against persons-warmer enviroment, Crimes against property- colder enviroment
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Relative Deprivation
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*Adolfe Anticipated*, found taht poormat regions of france had low crime rates

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Charles Darwine, Sigmond Freud, Karl Marx

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The forerunners of modern criminological thought were who?
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Karl Marx
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He wrote communist manifesto

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Proletariat
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working class
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Borqoeoise
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owners, elite's
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Economic Structure
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Shapes all institutions and relationships
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Capitalism
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Teh root of Social problems is ____ and the inequalities it creates
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Willem Bonger
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applied marxit thought to topics of crime.  Criminal law exists to protect the propertied class
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Altruistic, Capitalist
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Pre-Capitalist Societies are ___ and shelfish and greedy societies are ____
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Crime
Definition
What is caused by unequal access to the necessities of life?
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Peradigm
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Umbrella, Organizing principles
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Positivism
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The use of empirical or scientific investigation for teh impovinist society (August Comte)
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Measurement, Objectivity, Causality
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3 basic types of positivism
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Scientific method, dscover/diagnose of pathology, treatment
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Teh 3 applications to crime are?
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Ceasre Lombroso
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Father of Criminology.  Wrote "the criminal man" 1876.  said criminals were born criminals.  Criminals are throwbacks
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Atavism
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Criminals are more primative, less evolved
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Physical Stigmata
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characteristics of crime.  (chin, tatoos)
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Enrico Ferri
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a student of Lombrosso
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Born, Insane, Occasional, Criminal by passion
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4 types of criminology are?
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Ferri
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Criminal sociology 1878.  Crime expands to fit the amount of control machinary assigned to it
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Raffaelo gorafato
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said taht crime against persons- morally deficient
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Deficient in Honesty
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Crimes against property are
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Advocated Social Darwinism
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physical climinatic, the unfit kill offspring
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Charles Goring
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"The English Convict" 1913. 
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Personal resistance, mental disabilities
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Goring came up with his own test of the physical characteristics of 2 groups.  what are they
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Dualistic Fallacy
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Criminals and non criminals are distinct groups and will not over lap
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Criminals
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Shorter, Weighs less, gognitive defficiency
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Ernest Hooton
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"Crime and Man" 1939.  Large Scale Study of criminals and non criminals.  Criminals are physically inferior
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Elimination of Crime

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would require the extermination of physically, moraly defficient or complete segregation. 
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Eugentics
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movement to control criminals or degenerates found sterilization.
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William Sheldon
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Body types/personality of crime
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Endomorphs, Mesomorphs, Ectomorphs
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3 somato types are?
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Endomorph
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soft, plump, relaxed, easy going
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mesomorph
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the governator, hard muscular, aggressive, action thrill seeker, delingquent
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Ectomorph
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thin, fragile, sensitive, worries alot
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mesomorphic
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Deliquents are more likely to be ____ for fewer ectomorphs.
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Robert Dugsdale
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wrote "Teh Jukes" 1877.  Proposed that crimes was hereditary. 
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Henry Goddard
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wrote " kalikak family ".  proposed that feeblemindedness and criminality wer linked, and were hereditary. 

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Critique of Early biological Positivism
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Suggests geneteic sourse for a socially defined category of behavior.  ARe subject to the "dualistic falloory".  Weakly operationalize key varriables.  Are often bases on small inappropriate sompes.  Are compatible with authorization/totaltalitarian thinking
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Twin studies, Adoption studies

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to study nature vs nurture researches use ____ and _____

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Krowe
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He thought that adopted children w/ biological motehrs had some kind of criminal behavior te child had higher chances of crime
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Profrontal Lobatomies
Definition
destruction of portions of the frontal lobes of the brain.  1930 and up
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Psycho surgery
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surgiaclly altering brain tissue to alter peronality or behavior.  1930's-1950's
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Drug Theropy
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Came in by the 1950's and replaced lobotomies
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Hans Eyesnck

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Known for combining psychological and biological propositions regarding crime.  Introverts and Extroverts. 

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Psychological Positivism
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focus on psychological aspects of crime

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Psychology
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study of teh functioning mind, criminal psychology-criminal mind
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Psychoanalytic
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foucus on early childhood experiences.
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Sigmund Freud
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he said that Human personality is driven by unconscous forces.  Everyone is born naturally antisocial.  Propper behavior requires socializatoin and social ization is most important in early life
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I.D.
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primative aprt of brain.  Pleasure principle
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Ego
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develops early in life.  revlity principle
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Super Ego
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opposite of I.D. ethical principle. 
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super ego and ego may not be fully developed, super ego may be undeveloped, suepr ego may not include all of the necessary conventional values
Definition
What are some reason why crimanal behavior would occur?
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Strain
Definition
discrepency between "wants" and teh ability to achieve them
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Emile Durkhem
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Insisted on importance of gourps and social organizations in understanding human behavior, specifically, linked crime to border social changes. 
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mechanic, organic
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As societies shift form ____ to ___ there is turmoil and norms begin to prelude
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Anomie
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Normlessness in society
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Anomic, Egotistical, Altruistic, Fatalistic
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Four Types of suicide are
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Anomic
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Sudden shattering in his or her life
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Egotistical
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homeless, divorced, life's meaningless to them
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Altroistic
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totally changed, group experience
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Fatalistic
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individual loses self-identity (prisoner)
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Robert Merton
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Theory of Anomie (strain theory)
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Goals, Aspiratons
Definition
two cultural values are ___ and ___
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goals , means

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Our aspirations are out ____ and ___ is accpetable means of achieving our goals. 
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Cultural Imbalance

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severe imbalance between cultural means and goals
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cultural imbalance, cultural universalism, stratified social structure
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Three types of cultural vaules
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Cloward and Ohlin

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Differential oppurtunity

theory (1960)

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Integrated, Disorganized
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Two types of communities are
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Criminal, conflict, Retreatist
Definition
threee kinds of subcultures/gangs
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Ascribed Status
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acqired by virtue of family status (lower, middle, upper)
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Status Frustration
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occurs when ppl fail to meet MC success standards
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Reactoin Formation
Definition
Exaggerated efford to deny that which you want
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