Theories of Crime

• Physical Potentiality


  Having a concrete body
• Mental Ability


  Person's capability to think critically, rationally and logically
• Communication Skills


  Person's ability to read, write and talk to others
• Social Skills


  Person's ability to engage and interact with others
• Sigmund Freud


  Developed psychoanalytic theory
• Conscious level


  Serves as the scanner that allows you to perceive and event
• Subconscious level


  Storage point for any recent memories needed for quick recall
• Unconscious mind


  Those memories that have been repressed through trauma
• According to Freud, 10% of the mind is for the conscious level
• According to Freud, 50-60% of the mind is for the subconscious level
• According to Freud, 30-40% of the mind is for the unconscious level
• Norms


  Rules for behavior and a guide to conduct
• Conduct Norms


  Norms that are defined by the groups to which an individual belongs
• Conduct Norms


  Norms in a specific society to which everyone must conform so that they will not be considered a deviant
• Social Norm


  Accepted behavior that an individual is expected to conform to
• Folkways


  Sometimes known as customs, which are standard of behavior that are socially approved
• Mores


  Norms of morality that have to be followed, otherwise people who share the same culture will be offended
• Taboo


  Prohibited or restricted by social custom, like abortion in the Philippine culture
• Law


  Formal body of rules enacted by the state
• Maximo Torrento


  Value is something desirable, worth having, worth possessing, worth keeping and worth doing
• Pollock


  Defined values as unverifiable "elements of desirability, worth and importance"
• Aristotle


  Insisted on the idea that ethics is a human individual's own personal happiness and well-being
• Peter Singer


  Defined ethics as the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad, right and wrong
• Human Behavior


  Defined as the term used to describe a person's action and conduct
• Human Behavior


  Refers to the reaction of the facts of the relationship between the individual and their environment
• Marcel Mauss


  According to him, every self has two faces: the moi and the personne
• Moi


  Refers to a person's sense of who they are, their body and their basic identity, their biological givenness
• Personne


  Composed of the social concepts of what it means to be who they are
• Socrates


  He believed that the best life and the life most suited to human nature involved reasoning
• Plato


  Believed that human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
• Behaviorism


  According to this school, human behavior was all about the way a certain stimulus produces an appropriate response
• Functionalism


  One of the schools in sociology, explains that society is a system having parts which are connected and related with each other
• Gordon Allport


  According to him, social psychology is a discipline that uses scientific methods to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings
• Theory


  A statement that explains the relationship between abstract concepts in a meaningful way
• Social Theory


  Defined as a systematic set of interrelated statements of principles that explain aspects of social life
• Theory


  A supposition or system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained
• Contemplation or speculation


  Theory was derived from the Greek word "theoria" which means
• Theory


  Scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena
• Theory


  Is related to a set of concepts and principles about a phenomenon
• Theory


  Explains how some aspects of human behavior or performance is organized