Areas that gain a reputation for being prone to crime are referred to as _____ spots.

When an officer falsifies a report to protect a colleague accused of misconduct, which concept best explains this action?

According to Differential Reinforcement theory, past consequences are sufficient to maintain current behavior

Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime is also called self-control theory.

According to Lifestyle theory, individuals of higher social class spent their time in places and activities that are not likely to put them in the paths of motivated criminals.

Cultural criminologists argue that social events should be studied using the subjective interpretation of events, motives, and people (rather than data). This is called a phenomenological approach.

According to Sampson and Laub, changes in social bonds create destabilized periods over one’s life, which they call:

The primary intellectual background material for social learning theory is behavioristic psychology.

The subjective perspective of crime, of which cultural criminology is an example, is also known as:

The notion that the quality of interpersonal relationships is a resource for an individual to draw upon when needed is called social capital.