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This theory is used with respect to antisocial behavior instead of crime due to the differing definitions of 'crime' among cultures. Due to similar characteristics and trajectories, this theory can be applied to both females and males. [4]
New York: Basic Books. Pettit, Philip and Braithwaite, John (1990). Not Just Deserts. A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice. New York: Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-824056-3 (see Republican Criminology and Victim Advocacy: Comment for article concerning the book in Law & Society Review, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 765–776).
The Positivist School was founded by Cesare Lombroso and led by two others: Enrico Ferri and Raffaele Garofalo.In criminology, it has attempted to find scientific objectivity for the measurement and quantification of criminal behavior.
Self-control theory of crime; Serial crime; Sexual predator; Sexual psychopath; Sexual violence; Sexually violent predator laws; Signal crime; Signature crime; Situational offender; Social control theory; Social disorganization theory; Social network analysis in criminology; Sociobiological theories of rape; Somatotype and constitutional psychology
Although some government agencies hire individuals with the title "Criminologist", a criminologist has a Ph.D. in Criminology or Criminal Justice. Since Criminology is an interdisciplinary field, individuals with a doctorate in economics, history, political science, philosophy, and sociology, but who publish scholarly articles and books in the ...
"A longitudinal test of the revised strain theory." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 5:373-387 (1989) "Foundation for a general strain theory of delinquency." Criminology 30:47-87 (1992) "An empirical test of general strain theory." Criminology 30:475-499 (1992) (with Helene Raskin White) "A general strain theory of community differences in ...
Forensic developmental psychology is a field of psychology that focuses on "children's actions and reactions in a forensic context" and "children's reports that they were victims or witnesses of a crime". [1] [2] Bruck and Poole (2002) first coined the term "forensic developmental psychology". [1]
Criminal spin is a phenomenological model in criminology, depicting the development of criminal behavior. The model refers to those types of behavior that start out as something small and innocent, without malicious or criminal intent and as a result of one situation leading to the next, an almost inevitable chain of reactions triggering counter-reactions is set in motion, culminating in a ...