Exam 5: Crime As Choice: Rationality, Emotion, and Criminal Behavior

Crime rates can go up or down depending on how ______ change without any changes in offender motivation or in the prevalence of motivated offenders.

What is choice structuring?

Routine activities theory looks at crime from the points of view of both the offender and of crime prevention efforts.

Victimization is more prevalent in affluent areas as compared with poor disorganized communities.

What does the term anelpis mean?

What is the primary appeal of crime according to cultural criminologists?

Cultural criminology theory looks at much of modern crime as the result of the breakdown of the economy and politics.

Capable guardians can only be persons, not things.

Which of the following is not considered to be a cause of criminal behavior?

All of the following are considered examples of target-hardening EXCEPT

Both rationality and emotion initiate what?

Guilt is ______-centered while shame is ______-centered.

Emotions are situated in what system in the brain?

Choose the statement below that completes the sentence: Routine activities theory looks at crime from the point(s) of view of ______.

Explain rationality.

Hume considered our species to be Homo emovere or "emoting man" rather than Homo sapiens or "wise man."

Because guilt is psychologically punitive, it motivates individuals to do what two things?

A rational decision is one that is reasoned to be optimal for achieving a goal, but rationality is subject and unbounded.

Rational choice theory and routine activities theory are both based on what school of ideas?

What are the central beliefs of the classical school of thought?