Written by students who passed Immediately available after payment Read online or as PDF Wrong document? Swap it for free 4.6 TrustPilot
logo-home
Document preview thumbnail
Preview 2 out of 8 pages
Exam (elaborations)

SOCI 2615. LAW EXAM-(QUESTION WITH CORRECT ANSWERS)

Document preview thumbnail
Preview 2 out of 8 pages

SOCI 2615. LAW EXAM-(QUESTION WITH CORRECT ANSWERS) ◦ What are the three types of strain that Agnew proposes? -Answer-Agnew proposed that there are three types of coping mechanisms: cognitive, behavioral, and emotional ◦ What can the state do to prevent crime? -Answer-Reducing the Payoff. ... Access Control. ... Surveillance. ... Environmental Change. 5 main policing services -Answer-• Contract • Federal • National • Peacekeeping • Protective 5 types of adaptation -Answer-1. Conformity 2. Innovation 3. Ritualism 4. Retreatism 5. Rebellion Agnew's Strain Theory -Answer--Emotion connects strain to deviant behavior. -Strain elicits negative affective states (frustration, anger, fear) that create the motivation to act. Aker's four concepts -Answer-differential association, definitions, differential reinforcements, and imitation Aker's Social Learning Theory -Answer-learning occurs via a process of differential reinforcement, or a history of direct or vicarious experiences with consequences of behavior Albert Bandura -Answer-• Children imitate behaviour learned on television. bobo dolls American Dream -Answer-The widespread belief that the United States is a land of opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success. Anomie (Durkheim) -Answer-a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals Broken Windows Theory -Answer-a theory proposing that even small acts of crime, disorder, and vandalism can threaten a neighborhood and render it unsafe

Content preview

◦ What are the three types of strain that Agnew proposes? -Answer-Agnew proposed
that there are three types of coping mechanisms: cognitive, behavioral, and emotional

◦ What can the state do to prevent crime? -Answer-Reducing the Payoff. ...
Access Control. ...
Surveillance. ...
Environmental Change.

5 main policing services -Answer-• Contract
• Federal
• National
• Peacekeeping
• Protective

5 types of adaptation -Answer-1. Conformity
2. Innovation
3. Ritualism
4. Retreatism
5. Rebellion

Agnew's Strain Theory -Answer--Emotion connects strain to deviant behavior.
-Strain elicits negative affective states (frustration, anger, fear) that create the
motivation to act.

Aker's four concepts -Answer-differential association, definitions, differential
reinforcements, and imitation

Aker's Social Learning Theory -Answer-learning occurs via a process of differential
reinforcement, or a history of direct or vicarious experiences with consequences of
behavior

Albert Bandura -Answer-• Children imitate behaviour learned on television. bobo dolls

American Dream -Answer-The widespread belief that the United States is a land of
opportunity and that individual initiative and hard work can bring economic success.

Anomie (Durkheim) -Answer-a condition of instability resulting from a breakdown of
standards and values or from a lack of purpose or ideals

Broken Windows Theory -Answer-a theory proposing that even small acts of crime,
disorder, and vandalism can threaten a neighborhood and render it unsafe

, Canada Death Penalty -Answer-1976 eliminated the death penalty from the Criminal
Code
• Previous lack of use
• Other references remained
Replaced with life imprisonment, no chance of parole for 25 years

Chicago School -Answer-Group of urban sociologists who studied the relationship
between environmental conditions and crime.

Classical School -Answer-the school of thought that individuals have free will to choose
whether to commit crimes

Cloward and Ohlin's Differential Opportunity Theory -Answer-Differential opportunity
theory in criminology is an ideology that Richard Cloward and Lloyd Ohlin proposed and
assumes that young individuals who are unable to find financial reward and status via
legitimate means will turn to one (or more) of three possible subcultures in order to
achieve certain goals

Code of the Street (Anderson) -Answer-set of informal rules governing interpersonal
public behavior, including violence

collective efficacy -Answer-social control exerted by cohesive communities and based
on mutual trust

Colvin differential coercion theory -Answer-is compelling a party to act in an involuntary
manner by the use of threats, including threats to use force against a party

Concentric Zone Theory -Answer-A theory of urban growth that sees growth in terms of
a series of rings radiating from the central business district.

Control Balance Theory (Tittle) -Answer-Blended social bonding theory and containment
theory

CRAVED model -Answer-Concealable
Removable
Available
Valuable
Enjoyable
Disposable

Crime Funnel -Answer-a model indicating that the actual total quantity of crime is much
higher than the decreasing proportion that is detected, reported, prosecuted, and
punished

Crime is a part of our society -Answer-yeah

Document information

Uploaded on
June 26, 2024
Number of pages
8
Written in
2023/2024
Type
Exam (elaborations)
Contains
Questions & answers
$9.99

Wrong document? Swap it for free Within 14 days of purchase and before downloading, you can choose a different document. You can simply spend the amount again.
Written by students who passed
Immediately available after payment
Read online or as PDF

Sold
0
Followers
0
Items
84
Last sold
-



Why students choose Stuvia

Created by fellow students, verified by reviews

Quality you can trust: written by students who passed their tests and reviewed by others who've used these notes.

Didn't get what you expected? Choose another document

No worries! You can instantly pick a different document that better fits what you're looking for.

Pay as you like, start learning right away

No subscription, no commitments. Pay the way you're used to via credit card and download your PDF document instantly.

Student with book image

“Bought, downloaded, and aced it. It really can be that simple.”

Alisha Student

Working on your references?

Create accurate citations in APA, MLA and Harvard with our free citation generator.

Working on your references?

Frequently asked questions