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The Development of Criminological Theories

Do criminals have characteristics or behaviors that identify them?

Do certain socio-economic conditions cause criminality?

Why are most people law-abiding?

Can crime be prevented?

The Development of Criminological Theories

The study of offenders and offending is referred to as: criminology

Criminology plays and important role in the CJ system.

Theories are often used to implement laws; programs; sentencing.

The Development of Criminological Theories

The Development of Criminological Theories

Classical Labeling Theories of Crime and Deviance

Classical Labeling Theories of Crime and Deviance

Labeling Theory focuses on explaining deviant behavior, especially juvenile delinquency, by examining society’s reactions to behaviors that are defined as deviant.

https://sk.sagepub.com/video/classical-labeling-theories-of-crime-and-deviance

Conflict Theories of Crime and Deviance

Conflict Theories focus on the assumption that powerful ruling political and social elites—people, groups, and institutions—exploit the less powerful and use the criminal justice system to their own advantage to maintain their power and privilege.

Feminist Criminology Theory

Feminist Criminology Theory assumes that the underlying cause of criminal behavior by females is the inequality of power between men and women.

Radical Criminology

Radical Criminologists are considered to be those who advocate conflict theories and class and power inequality as the causes of crime.

They typically point to research data suggesting that there is no equal treatment of the poor, minorities, and females in the CJ system.

Radical Criminology

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