Description

Answer the following questions and read chapter 2 from Slate and Hopkins

1) Briefly outline the four explanations of crime and criminal behavior.

• The rational actor model

• The predestined actor model

• The victimized actor model

• Integrated theories

Which model or models do you support most for explaining crime? Why?

How does your support change with property and violent crime?

2) Briefly describe how society has dealt with mental illness over the last 100 years.