AIN3701 Assignment 3 Due September 2024
According to Merton an integrated society maintains a balance between two
elements - answer-social structure; culture
What specifically refers to shorter processes that use more limited information
which
relate mainly to the immediate circumstances and situations? - answer-Criminal
event decisions
Event decisions involve a sequence of choices made at each stage of the criminal
act.
This includes "escape" and "the aftermath". What other sequences of choices are
also
included in the event decision process? - answer-Preparation; target selection;
commission of the act
According to the routine activity theory a person's lifestyle influences the
opportunity for crime because it controls a person's ... - answer-ability to be
protected
Mechanical solidarity refers to? - answer-Pre-industrial societies where
individuals share common experiences
Converting unacceptable impulses, by acting in a way that opposes them, is
called? - answer-Sublimation
, Durkheim's work was influential in shifting the analysis of criminality away from
sources
rooted in the individual to sources rooted in sociocultural factors. He believed
that crime
is a/an... in any society and is therefore ... - answer-normal phenomenon;
functional.
Social-structure theories focus on ... - answer-social conditions.
Discussing the existence of threatening impulses is called ... - answer-denial.
In terms of the theory of differential association, learning the techniques for
committing crime is less important than acquiring the disposition needed to
commit crime. This includes: - answer-Motives, attitude and drives
Akers (Williams, 2004) proposes that behaviour will be repeated when... - answer-
positive reinforcers outweigh negative reinforcers.
According to Jones (2001) the main strength of the theory of differential
association is that it showed that crime was not just a product of ... but that it
could occur in all settings. - answer-poverty
In relation to society's reaction to anomie, which of the following reactions or
modes of adaptations relates both to the most common reaction and to the most
deviant reaction to anomie? - answer-Conformity and innovation
According to Merton an integrated society maintains a balance between two
elements - answer-social structure; culture
What specifically refers to shorter processes that use more limited information
which
relate mainly to the immediate circumstances and situations? - answer-Criminal
event decisions
Event decisions involve a sequence of choices made at each stage of the criminal
act.
This includes "escape" and "the aftermath". What other sequences of choices are
also
included in the event decision process? - answer-Preparation; target selection;
commission of the act
According to the routine activity theory a person's lifestyle influences the
opportunity for crime because it controls a person's ... - answer-ability to be
protected
Mechanical solidarity refers to? - answer-Pre-industrial societies where
individuals share common experiences
Converting unacceptable impulses, by acting in a way that opposes them, is
called? - answer-Sublimation
, Durkheim's work was influential in shifting the analysis of criminality away from
sources
rooted in the individual to sources rooted in sociocultural factors. He believed
that crime
is a/an... in any society and is therefore ... - answer-normal phenomenon;
functional.
Social-structure theories focus on ... - answer-social conditions.
Discussing the existence of threatening impulses is called ... - answer-denial.
In terms of the theory of differential association, learning the techniques for
committing crime is less important than acquiring the disposition needed to
commit crime. This includes: - answer-Motives, attitude and drives
Akers (Williams, 2004) proposes that behaviour will be repeated when... - answer-
positive reinforcers outweigh negative reinforcers.
According to Jones (2001) the main strength of the theory of differential
association is that it showed that crime was not just a product of ... but that it
could occur in all settings. - answer-poverty
In relation to society's reaction to anomie, which of the following reactions or
modes of adaptations relates both to the most common reaction and to the most
deviant reaction to anomie? - answer-Conformity and innovation
