Exam 5: Early and Classical Criminological Theories

While walking to her car in a mall parking lot, a woman is approached by a man who displays a handgun and demands her purse. She gives him her purse, and he runs away with it. How would each of the following theoretical perspectives explain this crime?

The view that criminal behavior is ultimately driven by supernatural forces is known as ______.

Compare and contrast the classical and ecological perspectives of crime. How are these explanations of crime similar? How are they different?

Demonological theory represents theological explanations of reality, in which the criminal was viewed as a(n) ______.

Hedonism is considered a pleasure-seeking philosophy.

Define human ecology.

The earliest theories of crime causation were ______.

Compare and contrast the ecological and economic perspectives of crime. How are these explanations similar? How are they different?

Discuss three of the four theory-policy connections discussed.

According to Beccaria, laws should be made by the executives in charge, and they should be specific.

Punishment should be sure, swift, and certain.

Hedonism is not natural among people.

Quetelet's theory that violent crime increases toward the equator is referred to as thermic law of crime.