CJ ST 484 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Justifiable Homicide, Cardiovascular Disease, Otto Binswanger
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Lifestyle theory: theory that criminal offenders and victims tend to. Match demographically because crime represents social interaction and social access among similarly situated people. others similar to them. Homogamous interaction: principle where people associate with. Lifestyle criminality: a life pattern of irresponsible, self-indulgent, Disresponsibility: an intellectual effort or rationalization in which a person attributes his or her actions to other causes and other people. Scheyett and her colleagues (2013) examined mortality patterns of interpersonally intrusive, and social rule-breaking behavior. felons recently released from prison. 64% of the violent deaths of prison releases were homicides. The homicides occurred as the result of an argument or part of ongoing criminal activity. 6% of the violent deaths were homicides as the result of legal intervention, or justified police killings. 30% of the violent deaths were suicides. These were triggered by depression, relationship problems, and other problems relating to continued involvement in the legal system.