WJEC Criminology Unit 2

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The social construction of criminality
What is social construct,
List 5 activities that used to be...,
List 7 activities that used to be...
5  cards
Physiological Explanations of Crime
Describe what is meant by physiol...,
Seeing as its a dated theory what...,
Who is lombroso
25  cards
Genetic Explanations of Crime
What are chromosomes,
There is a genetic condition in w...,
What is a label commonly used for...
20  cards
Biochemical Explanations of Crime
Name 3 of the main biochemical ex...,
Apart from drugs and alchol other...,
What has lead and synthetic food ...
11  cards
Behaviourist assumptions of crime
List three behaviourist assumptions,
What did skinner 1948 hypothesise...,
Name 4 ways operant conditioning ...
20  cards
Brain injuries/abnormalities link to crime
List 3 attributes the pre frontal...,
If the functions of the pre front...,
Being brain s emotional centre na...
12  cards
Psychodynamic theories of crime: Freud and Bowlby
Describe evolutionary psychology ...,
What did freud believe that the e...,
What did freud argue about the mi...
26  cards
Psychological theories of crime: Eysenck
Biological functioning of the ner...,
Psychological stable psychologica...,
Social responses to socialisation...
17  cards
Sociological Theories of Crime: Structuralists
What is sociology,
List the 8 social institutions,
What do structuralists believe
15  cards
Functionalism and crime: Durkheim
What are 4 reasons crime is funct...,
Describe boundary maintenance,
Describe adaption and change
13  cards
Marxism and and crime
What does marxism suggest about c...,
According to marxism what does ca...,
Who is a carl marx
20  cards
Strain theory and crime
What is merton s strain theory th...,
What is strain,
Why are we more likely to feel st...
17  cards

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