Reference no: EM133495203

Question

1. If humans are primarily motivated by the hedonistic calculus, is simple deterrence the answer to the crime problem?

2. Use any search engine and type in "Beccaria preventing crime." How do Beccaria's ideas compare with those of the positivists on preventing crime? What is Beccaria's idea of "real crime," and how does it compare with Garofalo's?

3. What prevents most people from committing serious crimes that does not prevent criminals from doing so?

4. Would you like to see the criminal penalties of the Chinese and Saudi Arabians applied in the United States to reduce crime to a minimum?

5. Discuss the notion that criminal behavior is just as rational as noncriminal behavior.

6. Give examples of some routine activities that practically invite crime.

7. Take a position on whether rationality or emotions are more important in understanding criminal behavior.

8. Who are the anelpis, and how do you think they became the way they are? In other words, is it economic poverty as cultural criminologists contend, or is it moral poverty as conservative criminologists contend?

9. Why (or why not) is target hardening preferable to other anticrime strategies such as reducing poverty?