Study Guide Test # 2
Chapter 5
Key Terms and people: macro vs. micro theories of crime, Rational Choice Theory, Deterrence Theory, phrenology, atavism, somatology, Stanley Milgrim, Phillip Zimbardo
1.) What are the three questions theories of crime try to answer?
2.) Understand the difference between psychological and sociological theories of crime.
3.) What were the reasons that people in ancient times were thought to act deviant?
4.) What were the criticisms of the classical school of criminology?
Chapter 6
Key Terms and People: Social Pathology, Social ecology, relative deprivation, Rodney Stark and the theory of deviant places, Cloward and Ohlin theories, Walter Miller and his focal concerns, Albert Cohen
1.) Know and understand the five adaptations to anomie.
Chapter 7
Key Terms and People: Edwin Sutherland and Differential Association, Albert Bandura and modeling theory, personal vs. social controls, Sykes and Matza’s Techniques of Neutralization, Hirschi’s social bonding theory, Life course criminology, Colvin and Cullen, Control Balance Theory
1.) Read and understand the text’s discussion of social bonding and and crime in Japan.
2.) Know the criticism of social bonding theory.