CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
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What is Criminology?
A body of knowledge that regards crime as a social phenomenon
What does Criminology examine?
Examines the historical development of formailzed law
What is Small-scale socieites and inforal social control?
cooperation and equality
What is European formalized law?
Capitalist modes of production
What is Criminal law?
Formal rules that govern behavior in society
What Criminal justice data and statistics is gattered?
- Reliability vs. Validity
- Records -> Aggregation -> Statistics
What are Crime Statistics presented as?
Uniform Crime Rate (UCR)
- Allows for comparison across jurisdictions
What is The Consensus Approach Assumption?
Not that law should represent the needs of all citizens but that is does represent the values and norms
of a society
What was The Classical School?
- Considered the first formral school of criminology
- Brought the emerging philosophy of liberalism and utilitarianism to the justice system
- Advocated for principles of rights, fairness, and due process in place of retribution arbitrariness, and
brutality
What was the Classical Theory of Crime?
- Reforms proposed by the Classical Theorists were based on radical new theory of the causes of crime
-> People broke the law because they thought that doing so would advance their own interests
->This theory was based on the assumption that people are rational beings who calculate the
consequences of their actions
What is the Classical Theory?
, - Justice must not be excessive and unfair
- This is most effective detterent and the fairest way to punish; anything more would break the social
contract
What are the reforms from the Classical theory?
- Minor punishment for minor crimes
- Law dictates criminal matters
What were the contributions of the Classical School?
- Reforms provided the foundation for progressive criminal law and the criminal justice system in canada
What was the Statistical School?
- Data provided a critical and insightful perspective on the relationship between certain factors and
crime
- The regularity of crime over time and space meant this pattern was the result of social forces
What was Lombroso and the Positive School?
-Observed physical differences between criminals and non-criminals
- He applied Darwin's evolutionary theory to criminals who were deemed Atavists
What is Psychological Theories of Crime?
- Examines criminality through theories of personality or learning that account for a person's behaviour r
in a specific situation
What do most Theories entail?
Assumption of offender deficit and assumption of discriminating traitsq
What is the "levels of analysis' perspective?
- Individual level
- Small group level
- Organizational level
- Institutional or community level
What is the individual level?
social problems are defined as individual deficits
What is small group level?
social problems are created by group functioning deficits
What is Organizational level?
Orgnaizations of society have not accomplished what they are supposed to
What is institutional or community level?
UPDATES UNVAILED!
What is Criminology?
A body of knowledge that regards crime as a social phenomenon
What does Criminology examine?
Examines the historical development of formailzed law
What is Small-scale socieites and inforal social control?
cooperation and equality
What is European formalized law?
Capitalist modes of production
What is Criminal law?
Formal rules that govern behavior in society
What Criminal justice data and statistics is gattered?
- Reliability vs. Validity
- Records -> Aggregation -> Statistics
What are Crime Statistics presented as?
Uniform Crime Rate (UCR)
- Allows for comparison across jurisdictions
What is The Consensus Approach Assumption?
Not that law should represent the needs of all citizens but that is does represent the values and norms
of a society
What was The Classical School?
- Considered the first formral school of criminology
- Brought the emerging philosophy of liberalism and utilitarianism to the justice system
- Advocated for principles of rights, fairness, and due process in place of retribution arbitrariness, and
brutality
What was the Classical Theory of Crime?
- Reforms proposed by the Classical Theorists were based on radical new theory of the causes of crime
-> People broke the law because they thought that doing so would advance their own interests
->This theory was based on the assumption that people are rational beings who calculate the
consequences of their actions
What is the Classical Theory?
, - Justice must not be excessive and unfair
- This is most effective detterent and the fairest way to punish; anything more would break the social
contract
What are the reforms from the Classical theory?
- Minor punishment for minor crimes
- Law dictates criminal matters
What were the contributions of the Classical School?
- Reforms provided the foundation for progressive criminal law and the criminal justice system in canada
What was the Statistical School?
- Data provided a critical and insightful perspective on the relationship between certain factors and
crime
- The regularity of crime over time and space meant this pattern was the result of social forces
What was Lombroso and the Positive School?
-Observed physical differences between criminals and non-criminals
- He applied Darwin's evolutionary theory to criminals who were deemed Atavists
What is Psychological Theories of Crime?
- Examines criminality through theories of personality or learning that account for a person's behaviour r
in a specific situation
What do most Theories entail?
Assumption of offender deficit and assumption of discriminating traitsq
What is the "levels of analysis' perspective?
- Individual level
- Small group level
- Organizational level
- Institutional or community level
What is the individual level?
social problems are defined as individual deficits
What is small group level?
social problems are created by group functioning deficits
What is Organizational level?
Orgnaizations of society have not accomplished what they are supposed to
What is institutional or community level?
