STUDY GUIDE:



STUDY GUIDE:

Test one

Introduction To Criminology (Soc 292)

Instructor: Sergio A. Banda

Hello students, for this exam there are some very important things you can do to maximize your chance of scoring the highest possible grade.

1. There is no substitute for reading the assigned chapters

2. Understand the major concepts and theory but also make sure you know the definition of all the different terminology

3. Take the practice quizzes found at

4. Thoroughly review the PowerPoint slides posted online.

5. Remember that this study guide does not replace the need to read the assigned chapters.

Chapter One

✓ What is sociology?

✓ What is criminology?

✓ What is a criminologist?

✓ What is Natural-Law?

✓ Raffaele Garofalo

✓ Edwin H. Sutherland

✓ C. Wright Mills (Personal vs. Private troubles (issues))

✓ Middle Ages, 18th century & 19th century views of the causes crime

✓ The objective of criminology

✓ Criminology as a science

✓ Criminology vs. Criminal Justice

✓ What does the criminal justice system consist of?

✓ Social norms

✓ Deviance vs. Crime

✓ Functionalism

✓ Consensus perspective of law & crime (consensus model)

✓ Conflict perspective of law & crime (conflict model)

Chapter Two

✓ 7 basic requirements for an act to be considered criminal (the ingredients of crime)

✓ Media & crime

✓ Felonies, misdemeanors & violations

✓ Civil versus Criminal Law

✓ Reasons for measuring crime

✓ Methods of collecting crime data

✓ Variables

✓ Population

✓ Sample

✓ Ethics & research for criminology

✓ Measuring characteristics of criminals age & crime, gender & crime, social class & crime and race & crime

✓ Where are crimes most likely committed?

✓ When are crimes involving strangers most likely to occur?

✓ Crime trends

✓ Theory

✓ Typologies of crime

✓ The major sources of crime information

✓ Index crimes

✓ Violent vs. nonviolent crime (crimes against person vs. crimes against property)

Chapter Three

✓ Theories of criminology throughout history:

✓ Prior to French Revolution

✓ Classical Criminology

✓ The Classical Context

✓ Cesare Beccaria (12 principles)

✓ Utilitarianism

✓ Positivist Criminology

✓ Biological Determinism (physiognomy & phrenology)

✓ The Italian School: Lombroso, Ferri & Garofalo

✓ Atavistic Stigmata (in relation to born criminal (also ideas of insane criminals and criminoloids))

✓ The Somatotype School

✓ Eugenics

✓ Inherited Criminality

✓ Psychological Determination

✓ Sociological Determination

✓ Adolphe Quetelet & Andre Michel Guerry

✓ Gabriel Trade

✓ Laws of Imitation

✓ Emile Durkheim

✓ Anomie

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