CRJ 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Wayne Gacy, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Sigmund Freud

• School: ASU
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJ 100
• Professor: scholz

Document Summary

The theory holds that crime is most likely to occur in the transitional zone: strain theory: suggests that crime occurs when members of a society, predominately the lower socioeconomic class, are unable to achieve goals valued by society. The theory suggests that persons with political power and wealth create laws to suppress the lower class: feminist criminology: a criminologist perspective that examines relationship between gender inequality, male dominance, and the exploitation of women under capitalism. Feminist criminologists focus on gender differences in crime, female offenders and victims, and gender inequalities of labor: peacemaking criminology: a perspective arguing that the encouragement of communication and relationships can promote justice and heal social wrongs. Views traditional forms of punishment as counterproductive because they reflect an imbalance of power: life course theory: explores how involvement in criminal activity changes as offenders grow older and encounter new life circumstances.