PERSPECTIVES, APPROACHES, AND THEORIES IN CRIMINOLOGY
BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH
LOMBROSO'S ATAVISM THEORY
SHELDON'S SOMATOTYPE THEORY
BIOCHEMICAL-NEUROLOGICAL APPROACH
NEUROTRANSMITTER THEORY
INHERITANCE-GENETIC APPROACH
GODDARD'S FEEBLEMINDEDNESS (IQ) THEORY
BIOSOCIAL APPROACH
MEDNICK'S BIOSOCIAL THEORY
PSYCHOLOGICAL-PSYCHIATRIC PERSPECTIVE
FREUDIAN APPROACH
HEALY'S NEOFREUDIAN THEORY
PERSONALITY DISORDERS APPROACH
ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY THEORY
CRIMINAL PERSONALITY THEORY
PSYCHOPATHY THEORY
MORAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH
PIAGET'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
ERIKSON'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
KOHLBERG'S DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVE
ECOLOGICAL APPROACH
THOMAS' 4 WISHES THEORY
PARK & BURGESS' CONCENTRIC ZONE THEORY
THRASHER'S GANG FORMATION THEORY
SHAW & MCKAY'S CULTURAL TRANSMISSION THEORY
ANOMIE PERSPECTIVE
STRAIN APPROACH
MERTON'S MEANS-END GAP THEORY
COHEN'S STATUS FRUSTRATION THEORY
CLOWARD & OHLIN'S DIFFERENTIAL OPPORTUNITY THEORY
SUBCULTURE APPROACH
MILLER'S FOCAL CONCERNS THEORY
KATZ'S SNEAKY THRILLS THEORY
SOCIAL LEARNING PERSPECTIVE
INTERPERSONAL APPROACH
SUTHERLAND'S DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION THEORY
GLASER'S DIFFERENTIAL IDENTIFICATION THEORY
AKER'S DIFFERENTIAL REINFORCEMENT THEORY
SITUATIONAL APPROACH
SYKES & MATZA'S NEUTRALIZATION THEORY
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH
BANDURA'S IMITATION THEORY
ROTTER'S EXPECTANCY THEORY
CONTROL PERSPECTIVE
PERSONAL CONTROLS APPROACH
RECKLESS' CONTAINMENT THEORY
KAPLAN'S SELF-DEROGATION THEORY
SOCIAL CONTROLS APPROACH
HIRSCHI'S SOCIAL BOND THEORY
LABELING PERSPECTIVE
SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY APPROACH
LEMERT'S SOCIETAL REACTION THEORY
GOFFMAN'S DRAMATURGY THEORY
GARFINKEL'S ETHNOMETHODOLOGY THEORY
INTERACTIONIST APPROACH
BECKER'S LABELING THEORY
RADICAL CONFLICT PERSPECTIVE
MARXIST APPROACH
SCHWENDINGER'S ADOLESCENT SUBCULTURES THEORY
QUINNEY'S SOCIAL REALITY THEORY
PLURALIST (NON-MARXIST) APPROACH
VOLD & BERNARD'S UNIFIED THEORY
TURK'S CRIMINALIZATION THEORY
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
CHIVALRY APPROACH
POLLOCK'S PATERNALISM THEORY
LIBERATION APPROACH
ADLER & SIMON'S EMANCIPATION THEORY
MARGINALIZATION APPROACH
HAGAN'S POWER-CONTROL THEORY
MESSERSCHMITT'S MASCULINITY THEORY
CHESNEY-LIND'S PATRIARCHY THEORY
MIDDLE-CLASS PERSPECTIVE
YOUTH CULTURE APPROACH
VAZ' DEFERRED GRATIFICATION THEORY
DIFFERENTIATION APPROACH
PARSONS' DIFFERENTIATION THEORY
DIFFUSION APPROACH
KVARACEUS & MILLER'S DIFFUSION THEORY
MOBILITY APPROACH
BOHLKE'S MARGINALITY THEORY
INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE
SIDE-BY-SIDE (PARALLEL) APPROACH
COLVIN & PAULY'S STRUCTURAL MARXIST THEORY
END-TO-END (SEQUENTIAL) APPROACH
ELLIOTT'S INTEGRATIVE MODEL
TOP-TO-BOTTOM (DEDUCTIVE) APPROACH
SHOEMAKER'S EXPLANATORY MODEL
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