CRM 412 Theories of Criminal Behaviour

HND2 levelManagement & Administration15 topics

CRM 412 covers 15 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Definitions of crime
Non-legal perspectives of crime
Nature and scope of criminological theories
Etiology of crime
Functionalist and conflict perspectives
Differential association theory
Professional thief study
Lombroso’s born criminal theory
Durkheim on crime and social solidarity
Durkheim on suicide and anomie
Merton’s anomie theory
Techniques of neutralization
Differential opportunity theory
Labeling theory
Conflict/Marxist theory of crime

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Definitions of crime

The definition of crime is the cornerstone of criminal law and the study of criminal behaviour. Mastering the legal elements of crime—actus reus, mens rea, concurrence, and the distinction between offences and infractions—enables students to analyse case facts, predict legal outcomes, and answer exam questions accurately.

What you get for CRM 412

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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