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Project:
Video:
Profiling
& the Types & Causes of Crimes
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Your
Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group.
Hand in one answer with everyone's name
- First & last & in alphabetical order by last
name
- Include only
members who are present
Indicate the date: _____________________ |
Indicate the name of the class:
Indicate the name of the Project:
Be thorough; write good answers
Use your time wisely.
Be finished
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| Project:
Video:
Profiling & the Types & Causes of
Crimes
1. Pick one of the criminals to profile
2. Describe his profile
3. In the video, what type(s) of crime(s) is he
committing?
4. What does his profile tell you about why he did
the crime(s)? Justify or explain your answers
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| Summary
of the Types of Crime
1. Violent crime
2. Property crime
3. Juvenile crime
4. Non violent crime
5. Victimless crime
6. Hate crime
7. Treason
8. Terrorism
9. War crimes & crimes against humanity
10. Street crime
11. White collar crime
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Summary
of the Causes of Crime
I. Classic Criminology: freely chosen
criminality
II. Biological
A. Lombroso:
Avatism
B. Sheldon's Body
Type Theory
C. XYY Theory
D. Genetics
E. Other Biological
Explanations: Hormones, brain damage, etc.
III. Psychological Explanations
A. Psychoanalytic
Explanations
B. Sociopathic Explanations
IV. Social Explanations
A. Conflict Theory
1. Old Economic View: Starvation
2. New Economic View: Achievement
3. Ideological Explanation
4. Culture of Poverty
5. Victimless Crimes
B. Functional:
Durkheim & Merton on Anomie
C. Subcultural Explanations
of Crime
1. Lower Class Culture
2. Differential Association: learned behavior
3. Subculture of Violence
4. Corporate Culture
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Videos:
Wayne Williams
16:50
Robert Hansen
9:14
Larry Gene Bell
14:47 |
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