Criminology theory is the explanation of the behavior of criminal individuals, as well as the behavior of police, attorneys, prosecutors, judges, correctional personnel, and victims. This helps us understand criminal behavior and the basis of policies proposed and implemented to prevent and control crime.
2. State the causes of crime according to classical and neoclassical criminologists and their policy implications.
Free-willed individuals commit crime because they rationally calculate that crime will give them more pleasure than pain.The policy implications is deterrence this means that a social contract was made to enact laws that are clear,unbiased,simple, and it has to reflect the population's consensus.
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Psychoanalytic theory happens when crime is a symptom of more deep-seated problems. Their policy implications is to provide psychotherapy or psychoanalysis. Humanistic theory is a crime that individuals make to satisfy their basic human needs or a crime that is an adaption to helplessness caused by oppression. Their policies implications are to help people satisfy their basic needs legally and to eliminate sources of oppression, to provide legal ways of coping with feelings of helplessness caused by oppression.
5. Explain sociological theories of crime causation and their policy implications.
Sociological theories says that crime is caused by he dissociation of the individual from the collective conscience or by social disorganization, resulting from a lack of opportunity to achieve aspirations, the learning of criminal values and behaviors, and by the failure to properly socialize individuals. The policy implications are containing crime within reasonable boundaries, organizing and empowering neighborhood residents, and reducing