CRM 426 THEORIES OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

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CRM 426 THEORIES OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
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Know Thine Enemy!
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We Know How to Reduce Crime
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• Required for all Criminal Justice Majors
• Understanding Criminal Motivations
• Using Personal Experience and Self-Insight to
  Understand Criminal Motivations
• Application of major Theories of Criminal
  Behavior
• Understanding Qualitative Criminological Research
• Understanding and Using Crime Causation and
  Research Concepts

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Property Crime
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Violent Crime
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Occupational Crime
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Illegal Occupations
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Gangs and Crime
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Drugs and Crime
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Quitting Crime
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Why They Kill?
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Hidden Agenda

• QUALITY SPEAKING
• VOCABULARY

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Ethnographic Interviews Cognitive
Psychologist Empirical Investigation Differential
Involvement Offender Calculus A Prior
Assumption Salience Research Methodology Selective
Recall External Validity of Findings Uncoerced
Participation Blithely Circumspection Paradoxical
Largesse Dichotomized Impunity Contingencies Penur
y
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Hidden Agenda

• QUALITY SPEAKING
• VOCABULARY
• RESPECTFUL LISTENING

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RESPECTFUL LISTENING REQUIRED!
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NO LAPTOPS IN CLASS
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NO IPODS IN CLASS
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THE TEXTBOOKS
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• Vocabulary Quizzes (max. 10 points per quiz)
• Answering In-Class Questions (max. 20 points
  per Article)
• Three Subjective Examinations (max. 100 points
  per)
• Violentization Analysis (max. 100 points)

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Earned Points/Highest Points
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