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Revision Examination Tests
“Come all for this greatness”
...100% Correct Ans...
Summary Criminal Family Studies notes (100% correct)
2024-2025
Aggravating circumstances
Cause offender to be punished more severely
Ex. rape of a child is more serious than rape of adult
Classical Criminology
- Emphasises free will
- Views criminal act as consciously carried out
- Offender is rational: weighs up advantages and disadvantages
Main focus: CJS = if it operated in a consistent and predictable way it
would eliminate crime
Criminal event decision
Shorter processes that use more limited info relating to immediate
circumstances and situations
Criminal involvement
,Process: Individuals choose to become involved in forms of crime,
continue and desist later
Bounded rationality
Poor decisions based on incomplete info
Mitigating cirumstances
Result in more lenient sentences
Ex. being a first-time offender
Neo-classical school
Scientific criminology AKA Positivism
Believe that rehab is invalid
Routine activities theory (Marcus Felcon)
3 factors contribute to crime
Motivated offender
Suitable victim
Absence of capable guardian
Rational choice theory
Emphasises the importance of rationality in human action, even if limited
or bounded
Emphasises decision making involved in offending
Social contract
When an individual is bound by society by their own consent. Society is
responsible to them
, Introduction to the rational school
- Grew out of a group of Enlightenment philosophers in the 8th century
- Humans should be addressees by reason NOT religion or superstition
- Explanations of crime moving from sin to rationality, individual
responsibility and free choice which influenced the law
- Law and punishment moved to be predictable and non-discriminatory,
humane and effective
- Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Betham
Punishment should be (4)
1. Avoid unnecessary suffering
2. Proportionate to the crime
3. Follow quickly after the offence
4. Be sufficient to act as a deterrent
Assumptions of the classical school
Human nature
- People are self-interested, rational
- Able to choose what they want to do
- Act according to personal choices
- Free will
- Conformity is rewarded, rebellion is punished
Assumptions of the classical school
Conception of society or social order
Revision Examination Tests
“Come all for this greatness”
...100% Correct Ans...
Summary Criminal Family Studies notes (100% correct)
2024-2025
Aggravating circumstances
Cause offender to be punished more severely
Ex. rape of a child is more serious than rape of adult
Classical Criminology
- Emphasises free will
- Views criminal act as consciously carried out
- Offender is rational: weighs up advantages and disadvantages
Main focus: CJS = if it operated in a consistent and predictable way it
would eliminate crime
Criminal event decision
Shorter processes that use more limited info relating to immediate
circumstances and situations
Criminal involvement
,Process: Individuals choose to become involved in forms of crime,
continue and desist later
Bounded rationality
Poor decisions based on incomplete info
Mitigating cirumstances
Result in more lenient sentences
Ex. being a first-time offender
Neo-classical school
Scientific criminology AKA Positivism
Believe that rehab is invalid
Routine activities theory (Marcus Felcon)
3 factors contribute to crime
Motivated offender
Suitable victim
Absence of capable guardian
Rational choice theory
Emphasises the importance of rationality in human action, even if limited
or bounded
Emphasises decision making involved in offending
Social contract
When an individual is bound by society by their own consent. Society is
responsible to them
, Introduction to the rational school
- Grew out of a group of Enlightenment philosophers in the 8th century
- Humans should be addressees by reason NOT religion or superstition
- Explanations of crime moving from sin to rationality, individual
responsibility and free choice which influenced the law
- Law and punishment moved to be predictable and non-discriminatory,
humane and effective
- Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Betham
Punishment should be (4)
1. Avoid unnecessary suffering
2. Proportionate to the crime
3. Follow quickly after the offence
4. Be sufficient to act as a deterrent
Assumptions of the classical school
Human nature
- People are self-interested, rational
- Able to choose what they want to do
- Act according to personal choices
- Free will
- Conformity is rewarded, rebellion is punished
Assumptions of the classical school
Conception of society or social order
