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    class, you learn about many different theories. This is because the word Criminology means the study of crime. Crime has been studied for many and multiple centuries. In order to have an understanding of why crime exist or why people commit crime, many different people over a long period of time have developed theories on the reasons why crime happens and the reason why people commit crimes. According to the website “Oxford Dictionaries, Language Matters,” a theory is defined as “A supposition or a system

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    I see that there are multiple criminology theories as I read this book and one of the first theories that I’ll be discussing is the Choice Theory. Now for this theory I believe that the character, Jessica, fits perfectly into it. I believe this because for the Choice Theory it is about the belief that people choose to commit a crime. Seeing the opportunities before them and knowing the benefit is better versus the consequences and to decide whether to continue to commit the criminal activity or not

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    The ability to acquire leadership styles is either instilled in a person or an attribute to develop. In the book The Right Choice: Using Theory of Constraints for Effective Leadership focuses on leadership on three levels (1) of personal leadership, (2) team leadership, and (3) organizational leadership. According to Hutchin (2012, pp xv), the key characteristics of leaders is they inspire people to journey toward the goal; they inspire people to see their true worth rather than simply as an expense

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    I see that there are multiple criminology theories as I read this book and one of the first theories that I’ll be discussing is the Choice Theory. Now for this theory I believe that the character, Jessica, fits perfectly into it. I believe this because for the Choice Theory it is about the belief that people choose to commit a crime. Seeing the opportunities before them and knowing the benefit is better versus the consequences and to decide whether to continue to commit the criminal activity or not

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    will cover two criminological theories and they will be applied to two types of criminality. The two theories chosen for the paper were developmental theory and rational choice theory. The two types of crimes that were chosen were organized crime, specifically focusing on gangs, and terrorism. Then the crimes will be compared and contrasted. Finally, the developmental theory will be applied to organized crime to explain why and how it happens. The rational choice theory will be applied to terrorism

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    ideas. Dr. Glasser’s Choice Theory/Reality Therapy represents just one of these ideas. It came about in the 1960’s as "Reality Therapy, and then became associated with “Control Theory” in the 1980’s." In 1996, Glasser changed the name from “control therapy” to “choice therapy”. Choice Therapy was a much more accurate description of the idea (Wubbolding, 2000). It also portrayed human nature under a new light. Whereas psychoanalysis pushed the deterministic perspective, Choice Theory maintained an opposing

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    (May 11, 1925 – August 23, 2013), a renowned American psychologist and psychiatrist, developed Reality Therapy in 1965 - a method of counselling and psychotherapy. In this, his disagreement with the Freudian (Sigmund Freud: 06/05/1856- 23/09/1939) theory of mental illness was openly noted, which found great support from a teacher and psychiatrist G. L. Harrington in 1965, an anti-Freudian whom Glasser credits as being his ‘mentor’. Validated by research studies, this theoretical approach has been

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    For many years, criminological theories have been dominated by sociological and political perspectives to explain crime than biological and genetic factors. Not to state that all sociological and political perspectives are flawed, but these perspectives within traditional criminology are not complete and do not offer a full assessment of all the contributions of criminal behavior. This paper aims to offer why traditional Criminology avoids biological explanations, what traditional Criminology attempts

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    Rational Choice Theory

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    Rational choice theory originates from the oldest criminological school of thought and criminological theorists, but the theory itself is new, only forming in the last five decades. Ronald Clarke and Derek Cornish, using the work of previous criminologists, put forth the rational choice perspective as a criminological theory (Adler, Mueller, & Laufer, 2016). This theory has its roots in the classical school of thought in which individuals had the power to make decisions after weighing the consequence

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    William Glasser was a philosopher. He was the author of numerous books, all of which he lived by. He did not write a theory that he did not support wholeheartedly and he often sought his wife’s opinion when it came to the book ideas he had. He loved to travel. He traveled the world speaking to people about his choice theory and his quality world. The most special places to him were Australia, Japan, and Korea. Although he was able to speak to hundreds of people at one time, he was very shy. If he

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