CJ 1 Chapter 2 Vocab Quiz

The scientific study of crime and the causes of criminal behavior.

• Criminology

• Theory

• Causation

• Crime

Sigmund Freud's theory that attributes out thoughts and actions to unconscious motives.

• Choice Theory

• Social Control Theory

• Psychoanalytic Theory

• Strain Theory

Theories that view criminal behavior as the result of class conflict.

• Strain Theories

• Learning Theories

• Control Theories

• Social Conflict Theories

The relationship between two measurements or behaviors that tend to move in the same direction.

• Causation

• Correlation

• Movement

• System

The assumption that crime is the result of frustration felt by individuals who cannot reach their financial and personal goals through legitimate means.

• Financial Theory

• Social Theory

• Strain Theory

• Conflict Theory

Theories that consider criminal behavior to be the predictable result of a person's interaction with his or her environment.

• Social Process Theories

• Learning Theories

• Conflict Theories

• Strain Theories

The theory that delinquents and criminals must be taught both the practical and the emotional skills necessary to participate in illegal activity.

• Social Process Theory

• Control Theory

• Peer Pressure Theory

• Learning Theory

The theory that criminal laws are designed by those in power to help them keep power at the expense of those who do not have power.

• Social Reality of Crime

• Learning Theory

• Life Course Criminology

• Criminal Model of Addiction

A series of theories that assume that all individuals have the potential for criminal behavior, but are restrained by the damage that such actions would do to their relationships with family, friends, and members of the community.

• Labeling Theory

• Control Theory

• Social Theory

• Learning Theory

The theory that deviant behavior is more likely in communities where social institutions such as the family, schools, and the criminal justice system fail to exert control over the population.

• Sociology

• Social Control Theory

• Social Disorganization Theory

• Social Conflict Theories