CJUS 2340 Final Exam 2026 | Criminal Justice Study Guide & Practice Questions
social control theory - (answer)theory that explains deviance as the result of the weakening of social
bonds
Anomie Theory - (answer)• Emile Durkheim - Normlessness, deregulation, lawlessness
• Lawlessness occurs when something else causes it
Matza's Drift Theory - (answer)juveniles drift
Charles Cooley - (answer)Looking glass self: that a person's sense of self develops through interactions
with others
George Herbert Mead - (answer)I and me theory
Albert Reiss - (answer)Personal Control and Social Control
Nye - (answer)categorized types of control. direct, indirect, internal, and family. Fam is most important
Walter Reckless - (answer)containment theory (inner and outer containment) pushes and pull breaks
containment through. Pushes is what you don't have control over, pulls are temptations. Resiliency-
people who, despite facing many criminogenic risk factors, resist crime
1960s - (answer)Control theory became popular
coleman - (answer)neutralization: juvenile's perception of justification of their behavior
Drift theory - (answer)This theory states that people can "drift" or float back and forth between obeying
and breaking the law. People can use techniques of neutralization as excuses to break the law when
other forms of social control are weak. When social control is stronger, the offender will drift or float
back to law-abiding behavior.
, CJUS 2340 Final Exam 2026 | Criminal Justice Study Guide & Practice Questions
Hirschi - (answer)Social bond theory: attachment was the most influential.He is always right; but then he
changed his theory. other 3 bonds are commitment, involvement, and belief
Central premise of Social Bond theory - (answer)crime occurs when social bonds are weak
Hirschi and Gottfredson - (answer)Self-control theory: low self-control occurs when it is not taught; self-
control is taught from birth and on
John Hagan - (answer)power-control theory, looks at relationship between household structure and
occupational authority; created a critical feminist model that uses gender differences to explain the
onset of criminality.
Charles Tittle - (answer)Too much, too little, just enough- you have to have the perfect amount of
control.
(three bears)
Control Ratio - (answer)The amount of control to which a person is subject versus the amount of control
that person exerts over others.
Mark Colvin - (answer)differential coercion: difference between the coercion to commit crime or not to
commit crime
labeling theorists - (answer)system itself is criminogenic because we labe criminals. system causes crime
Lemert - (answer)Primary and secondary deviance. primary is where someone regrets crime and
secondary is where they accept it .
Tannenbaum - (answer)one of the first to say that state intervention is labeling
Braithwaite - (answer)disintegrative and reintegrative shaming. Reintegrative is restorative justice.
social control theory - (answer)theory that explains deviance as the result of the weakening of social
bonds
Anomie Theory - (answer)• Emile Durkheim - Normlessness, deregulation, lawlessness
• Lawlessness occurs when something else causes it
Matza's Drift Theory - (answer)juveniles drift
Charles Cooley - (answer)Looking glass self: that a person's sense of self develops through interactions
with others
George Herbert Mead - (answer)I and me theory
Albert Reiss - (answer)Personal Control and Social Control
Nye - (answer)categorized types of control. direct, indirect, internal, and family. Fam is most important
Walter Reckless - (answer)containment theory (inner and outer containment) pushes and pull breaks
containment through. Pushes is what you don't have control over, pulls are temptations. Resiliency-
people who, despite facing many criminogenic risk factors, resist crime
1960s - (answer)Control theory became popular
coleman - (answer)neutralization: juvenile's perception of justification of their behavior
Drift theory - (answer)This theory states that people can "drift" or float back and forth between obeying
and breaking the law. People can use techniques of neutralization as excuses to break the law when
other forms of social control are weak. When social control is stronger, the offender will drift or float
back to law-abiding behavior.
, CJUS 2340 Final Exam 2026 | Criminal Justice Study Guide & Practice Questions
Hirschi - (answer)Social bond theory: attachment was the most influential.He is always right; but then he
changed his theory. other 3 bonds are commitment, involvement, and belief
Central premise of Social Bond theory - (answer)crime occurs when social bonds are weak
Hirschi and Gottfredson - (answer)Self-control theory: low self-control occurs when it is not taught; self-
control is taught from birth and on
John Hagan - (answer)power-control theory, looks at relationship between household structure and
occupational authority; created a critical feminist model that uses gender differences to explain the
onset of criminality.
Charles Tittle - (answer)Too much, too little, just enough- you have to have the perfect amount of
control.
(three bears)
Control Ratio - (answer)The amount of control to which a person is subject versus the amount of control
that person exerts over others.
Mark Colvin - (answer)differential coercion: difference between the coercion to commit crime or not to
commit crime
labeling theorists - (answer)system itself is criminogenic because we labe criminals. system causes crime
Lemert - (answer)Primary and secondary deviance. primary is where someone regrets crime and
secondary is where they accept it .
Tannenbaum - (answer)one of the first to say that state intervention is labeling
Braithwaite - (answer)disintegrative and reintegrative shaming. Reintegrative is restorative justice.
