CJ 421 – Ch. 2 / 3 – Flashcards
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showing potential offenders the negative consequences of a crime in the hope that it will prevent them from committing that same crime
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general deterrence
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classical school is best characterized as
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structural
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which is not a favorite topic for deterrence theorists
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domestic terrorism
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incorrect about the classical school?
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they used science to focus on behavior
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members of the classical school were opposed to
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capital punishment
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not an idea that descended from the classical school
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more use of judicial discretion
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least important of 3 elements of deterrence
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severity
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Beccaria made the point
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persons awaiting trial should not be placed in prisons
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not a major historical influence on the emergence of the classical philosophy
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writings of Guerry and Quetelet
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Elaborate schedule of punishments designed to take a combination of pleasure, pain, and mitigating circumstances was designed by
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Jeremy Bentham
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Beccaria wrote a small but popular book titled "an introduction to the principles and morals of legislation"
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False
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vast majority of deterrence research has failed to find any substantial effects from legal sanctions
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true
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father of sociology
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Comte
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rehabilitation has been replaced in punishment by rational models of deterrence
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true
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criminality that emphasized bumps on the head
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Phrenology
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Not specifically mentioned as a positivist approach to crime intervention and prevention
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restrictions on television and movie content
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one of the primary areas for applying biosocial crime theory today is in crime prevention
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true
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early positivists opposed the view that criminals were not as fully evolved as other members of western societies
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false
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Raffaele Garofalo contributed the concept of
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Natural crime, including pity and probity
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Concept of somatotypes
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General Body Structures
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not true about positivism
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rejects the idea that human existence can be improved or perfected
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Gabriel Tarde introducted the notion that behavior, including criminal acts involves a process of
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imitation
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Cesare Lombroso's work included
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criminals are not as highly evolved as non criminals
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Henry Goddard's study of lineage of a criminogenic family in the U.S. was called
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The Kallikaks
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Cognative theory dwells on the differences in thinking patterns between normal and criminal individuals
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true
