CRJS 1001 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATE (GRADED A+).
What is Cultural features?
High rates of crime
What was Messner and Rosenfeld's (2007) theory of institutional anomie
- Monetary success, but places less emphasis on legitimate means of achieving that success
- Combined with the weak restraint on the means, this encourages people to use illegal means to obtain
money and status
- Indirectly encourages crime by emphasizing the economy above all other institutions
What is Braithwaite: Greater class mix and the reduction of crime?
- Too much power corrupts, and their produces crime
- Powerful people abuse their occupational power
- Greater economic equality and distribution of influence among people would modify to some extent
those factors that lead to crime.
What is Labelling theory and the deviant career?
Central to symbolic interactionism and theories of crime
- Drift & moral rhetoric
What is Primary deviation?
The first state of an individual's 'life of crime'
What is Secondary Deviation?
Deviance and crime has changed the individual's life
- master status and the criminal identity
What is Differential Association theory?
Socialization and the criminal identity
What is Policy Implications ?
The lasting impact of a criminal identty
- imprisonment and learning the skills to become a criminal
What is Egoistic suicide?
Is seen as stemming from the absence of social integration.
What is Anomic Suicide?
, the perception that one's relationship to society has changed so radically that its values and norms are
no longer personally relevant.
What is social control theory?
Assumes that human beings are neither good nor evil.
What are the Four social bonds talked about by Hirshi's?
- Attachment
- Commitment
- Involvement
- Belief
What is Attachment?
Affective ties with others
- We refrain from crime because we don't want to hurt or embarrass people we like
What is Commitment?
The degree to which an individual pursues conventional goals
- Deviance risk the time, energy, etc., invested in obtaining the goal
What is Involvement?
The degree to which an individual is active in conventional activities
- People who are busy with pro-social activities (ex. school, work, family) do not have time for deviance
What is Belief?
In conventional values and the legitimacy of the law
- The absence of such belief makes deviance more possible
What does the law represent from the assumption underlying the consensus approach?
- The law represents the norms and values of the dominant and elite in society
- The law operates to einforce inequality
- The law produces social injustices
What are the 8 core needs of victims?
1. Recognition
2. Information
3. Assistance
4. Reparation
5. Protection
6. Participation and representation
7. Effective public policies
8. IMplementation of policies
What is Restorative justice?
UPDATE (GRADED A+).
What is Cultural features?
High rates of crime
What was Messner and Rosenfeld's (2007) theory of institutional anomie
- Monetary success, but places less emphasis on legitimate means of achieving that success
- Combined with the weak restraint on the means, this encourages people to use illegal means to obtain
money and status
- Indirectly encourages crime by emphasizing the economy above all other institutions
What is Braithwaite: Greater class mix and the reduction of crime?
- Too much power corrupts, and their produces crime
- Powerful people abuse their occupational power
- Greater economic equality and distribution of influence among people would modify to some extent
those factors that lead to crime.
What is Labelling theory and the deviant career?
Central to symbolic interactionism and theories of crime
- Drift & moral rhetoric
What is Primary deviation?
The first state of an individual's 'life of crime'
What is Secondary Deviation?
Deviance and crime has changed the individual's life
- master status and the criminal identity
What is Differential Association theory?
Socialization and the criminal identity
What is Policy Implications ?
The lasting impact of a criminal identty
- imprisonment and learning the skills to become a criminal
What is Egoistic suicide?
Is seen as stemming from the absence of social integration.
What is Anomic Suicide?
, the perception that one's relationship to society has changed so radically that its values and norms are
no longer personally relevant.
What is social control theory?
Assumes that human beings are neither good nor evil.
What are the Four social bonds talked about by Hirshi's?
- Attachment
- Commitment
- Involvement
- Belief
What is Attachment?
Affective ties with others
- We refrain from crime because we don't want to hurt or embarrass people we like
What is Commitment?
The degree to which an individual pursues conventional goals
- Deviance risk the time, energy, etc., invested in obtaining the goal
What is Involvement?
The degree to which an individual is active in conventional activities
- People who are busy with pro-social activities (ex. school, work, family) do not have time for deviance
What is Belief?
In conventional values and the legitimacy of the law
- The absence of such belief makes deviance more possible
What does the law represent from the assumption underlying the consensus approach?
- The law represents the norms and values of the dominant and elite in society
- The law operates to einforce inequality
- The law produces social injustices
What are the 8 core needs of victims?
1. Recognition
2. Information
3. Assistance
4. Reparation
5. Protection
6. Participation and representation
7. Effective public policies
8. IMplementation of policies
What is Restorative justice?
