HAS262 Theorist --> Theory Flash Cards

Thomas Aquinas

Spiritual explanations of crime

Thomas Hobbes

Social Contract theory

Cesare Beccaria

Classical criminology and deterrence theory

Daniel Nagin

Modern deterrence researcher

Cornish & Clarke

Rational Choice Theory

Cesare Lombroso

Born Criminal Theory

William Sheldon

Somatotype Theory (body types)

Adrian Raine

Biosocial criminology

Hans Brunner

MAOA gene and aggression research

Sigmund Freud

Unconscious psychological forces influence behaviour

John Bowlby

Attachment theory

Glueck & Glueck

Early research into delinquent personality characteristics

Hans Eysenck

PEN personality model (Psychoticism, Extraversion, Neuroticism)

Emilie Durkheim

Concept of anomie, viewed crime as a normal social phenomenon

Robert Merton

Strain Theory

Albert Cohen

Status frustration and delinquent subcultures

Cloward & Ohlin

Differential Opportunity Theory

Robert Agnew

General Strain Theory

Robert Park

Chicago School and ecological analysis of cities

Ernest Burgess

Concentric Zone Theory and urban growth patterns

Shaw & McKay

Social Disorganisation Theory

Robert Sampson

Modern Social Disorganisation Theory and collective efficacy

Sampson & Raudenbush

Collective efficacy and neighbourhood social control

James Wilson & George Kelling

Broken Windows Theory

Lawrence Weisburd

Law of Crime Concentration

Edwin Sutherland

Differential Association Theory

Walter B. Miller

Lower-class focal concerns and deviant subcultures

Robert Akers

Social Learning Theory

Edwin Lemert

Primary and secondary deviance; Labelling Theory