Exposure to harmful chemicals while in utero, such as alcohol, cigarette smoke, environmental contaminants such as mold or other air/water contaminants, poor or insufficient diet or unbalanced hormones may lead to criminal behavior later in life

This theory contends that people are not born violent but learn violent tendencies

This was the first theorist to assert that age and gender are the strongest predictive characteristics toward criminality

This theory examines how people have a tendency to purchase goods or services that exhibit wealth in order to gain or maintain social status in society--may function to exacerbate strain

This means 'normlessness' or 'without norms'

This is a potential genetic explanation for excessive aggression among males

This is defined as relatively stable patterns of behavior that define an individual as unique

This examines a people not places approach to studying crime

This theory asserts that crime is inevitable in a capitalist society and thus those that are unable to attain mainstream goals through conventional means will resort to less or unconventional means to attain them, or create new goals or means entirely

This term was coined by Elijah Anderson and refers to persons of a specific culture who must convey a certain element of machismo or toughness in public but are polite, respectful and articulate in the confines of their home

Brain damage or defect that affects brain activity and its relation to life course criminal activity

A person suffering from this would prefer the 'S' in S & M

This guy studied suicides and first developed the concept of anomie

This theory is the love child of [Merton's] Strain Theory and Social Disorganization theory

This refers to the phenomena that those in the lower classes / lower socioeconomic strata have limited means to achieve the conventionally accepted goals in society

These are the three components of the personality according to Freud?

This is the proper term for what used to be referred to as a 'sociopath' or 'psychopath'

This refers to a group within the population that live in specific areas that are prone to generations of poverty

This concept refers to the phenomena that occurs when economically wealthy live in close proximity to the poor

This refers to a parent's ability to normalize or properly socialize a child's behavior

This theory argues that an offender commits crime because s/he wasn't hugged enough

This argues that intelligence is more social

A major challenge to this theory is that it focuses solely on the occurrence of crime in urban areas

This term refers to the transmission of values and beliefs within a subculture that allows them to be passed down through the generations and permits the values of the subculture to continue to exist

This theory contends that crime is learned and that learning is a byproduct of social interaction; it further states that criminal techniques are learned