What Are the General Characteristics of Criminological Theories? in Your

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Essay

What are the general characteristics of criminological theories? In your essay on this question address at least the following: What are the major questions about crime that criminological theories attempt to answer? How do these questions relate to the way in which criminological theories are classified? How do the questions differ from the kind of questions to which social and political philosophies of crime control are addressed?

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Definitions:

Explicit Memories

Memories that can be consciously recalled, such as facts and events, part of declarative memory.

Effortful Processing

Effortful processing is a type of memory encoding that requires awareness, attention, and effort to encode information.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit similar responses.

Sequential Processing

Processing one aspect of a stimulus or problem at a time; generally used to process new information or to solve difficult problems.