Culture of Crime, law homework help

Culture
of Crime

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In your main post:

· 
Explain your understanding of Ferrel’s
statement, “Criminal behavior is, more often than not, subcultural
behavior.”

· 
Describe
your reaction to this statement. Does it fit with your own personal opinion or
perspective about what crime is? Explain why or why not.

Reference

Ferrell,
J. (1995). Culture, crime, and cultural criminology. Journal of Criminal
Justice and Popular Culture, 3(2), 25–42.

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Offender
Profiling and Criminal Inferences

In
your main post:

· 
Analyze
the different components of the radex model of criminal differentiation,
looking at expressive and instrumental criminal conduct against person and
property on a continuum of increasing seriousness.

· 
Include
in your analysis a summary of the domains and a critique of how they can be or
cannot be useful for forensic psychology and for criminal justice
professionals. What are the limitations you see in relying on this approach?

Reference

Canter,
D. (2000). Offender profiling and criminal differentiation. Legal and
Criminological Psychology, 5(1), 23–46.