Criminology

Human conduct that violates the criminal laws of a state, the federal government, or a local jurisdiction.

• Criminology

• Deviant behavior

• Tort

• Crime

Human activity that strays away from culturally accepted norms of society

• Deviant behavior

• crime

• criminology

• tort

The scientific study of crime and criminal behavior

• Psychology

• Social relativity

• Biology

• Criminology

Social events are interpreted differently according to cultural experiences and personal interests of the observer or recipient of that behavior

• Deviant behavior

• Anomie

• Social relativity

• Criminology

This theory focuses on internal sources including genetic and physical makeup

• Sociological theory

• Biological theory

• Psychological theory

• Anthropological theory

Known as the father of modern criminology; Atavism and Criminaloids

• Freud

• Ernst Kretschmer

• William Sheldon

• Cesare Lombroso

Modern sociological theories link violent or disruptive behaviors to eating habits, vitamin deficiencies, genetic inheritance and other conditions that affect the body

• True

• False

The study of intelligence/brain and criminality

• Biological theory

• Anthropological theory

• Sociological theory

• Psychological theory

Criminality is the result of primitive urges that survived evolution

• Anthropology

• Atavism

• Criminaloid

• Social relativity

A psychological principle that holds that the frequency of any behavior can be increased or decreased through reward, punishment, and association with other stimuli is

• Heritability

• Profiling

• Psychoanalysis

• Behavioral conditioning