Theories of Crime Causation: Mid-term Exam

Refers to the reason why a person will commit a crime

• Instrumentality

• Opportunity

• Motive

• Total Situation

In this stage of committing a crime, all elements of crime is present and executed.

• Consummated Stage

• Frustrated Stage

• Attempted Stage

• None of the above

Is an indeterminate factor in mobilizing the criminal act. As each person has a unique pyschological make up, he follows that only he can achieve a particular aim in a given environment

• Criminal Behavior

• Criminal Tendency

• Total Situation

• Resistance to temptation

According to him crime is a product of the individual's tendencies and the situation of the moment interacting with his mental resistance.

• Jeremy Bentham

• David Emile Durkheim

• Dr. David Abrahamsen

• Cesare Beccaria

It is the ability to control one's negative emotions such a bad temperament, anger, etc.

• Criminal Behavior

• Criminal Tendency

• Total Situation

• Resistance to Temptation

Also known as Retroductive reasoning

• Inductive Reasoning

• Deductive Reasoning

• Abductive Reasoning

• Speculative Reasoning

Revises old theories and develop new ones based on continuing research

• Descriptive

• Speculative

• Constructive

• Hypothesis

The means or instrument used in the commission of thr crime

• Criminal behavior

• Motive

• Opportunity

• Instrumentality

Acts that are in violation of simple rules and regulations

• Crime

• Offense

• Felony

• Misdemeanour

It maintains that criminal behavior was believed to be the result of evil spirits and demons something of natural force and controls behavior

• Classical Theory

• Neo-Classical Theory

• Demonological Theory

• Positivist Theory