CRJS 1001

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! Five Approaches to Crime Conflict (law serves elite, tool of oppression), consensus (social contract), legalistic (crimes go against society under law), biological (crime not natural), sociological (crime natural) Classifications of Crime Violent (murder vs homicide), assault, sexual assault, robbery, B&E, property, morality, organized, cyber, victims, hate, non-violent Terra Nullis "Land belonging to no-one"; land under-ut...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! Criminology Study of crime as a social phenomenon. Uniform Crime Rate (UCR) Statistical measure for crime comparison across jurisdictions. Self-report studies Surveys collecting personal accounts of crime experiences. Qualitative research Research focusing on non-numerical data and insights. Quantitative research Research involving numerical data and statistical analysis. Labelling theory Theory on how labels affect individ...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! Functions of Crime Crime reinforces societal values and prompts reforms. Weaknesses of Social Disorganization Theories Overgeneralized crime connections and committed ecological fallacy. Strain Theory and the 5 adaptations Conformity Innovation Ritualism Retreatism Rebellion Strain Theory A sociological perspective that explains deviance as a result of the disconnect between societal goals and the means available to...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! The three methods of measuring crime 1. Uniform crime reports (UCR) 2. General social survey/victimization survey 3. Self-report data Making records into statistics and the 5 methodological issues 1. Units of count: what is being counted 2. Level of aggression: how to combine data 3. Definitions: how to define what is being counted? 4. Data element: what info is getting collected? 5. Accounting procedure: how to count units i...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! What was Foucault and his theory on power - Power extends beyond the state - Power is not a quantity to hold or possess, but rather is relational and only evident when exercise - Micro-power - Discipline - Surveillance - Governmentality - The panoptic on and the carceral society What was Bourdieu's Field Theory? - Society is made up of multiple 'fields' - Capital (qualities) and habitus (Dispositions) ensure the suc...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST 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 g...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! Jeremy Bentham punishment should be made known in advance. rational choice theory: humans have free will and make rational choices. "punishment should fit the crime" Cesare Lombroso father of modern criminology, measured and classified the skulls and body types of many prisoners and inmates, concluded that criminals were atavistic or less evolved Atavistic criminal behaviour innate and only partly caused by psychological an...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! What is Criminology? the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon; the process of making law, breaking law, and reaction to breaking law; objective is to develop of general and verified principles Why study crime? Very important for aspects of social life, tells us about society, helps figure out ways to reduce crime as it affects us directly and indirectly Define crime (non-legal) When someone breaks the rules th...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! Strain Theory Sees emotional turmoil and conflict as resulting from individuals' inability to achieve socially approved goals through legitimate means Symbolic Interactionism A sociological approach to studying behaviour focusing on the symbolic value of words and gestures in everyday social interactions Differential Association Theory A sociological theory that holds that criminal behaviour is socially learned through frequen...

CRJS 1001: A+ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES UNVAILED! Deterrence Theory The belief that the threat of punishment can prevent people from committing a crime Positivist School of Criminology A school of criminological thought whose adherents use the scientific method to measure behaviour, and advocate rehabilitation over punishment Determinism A doctrine that denies free will while maintaining that our decisions are decided by predictable and/or inherited causes that act on our charac...