CRIM 101 SFU FINAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
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Incarceration Rates in the US Ans✓✓✓•In 2012, 7 million Americans
were "under some form of correctional supervision" (Huey)
•In 2012, more than 2.2 million Americans were incarcerated in local
jails and federal or state prisons
the punitive turn Ans✓✓✓•refers to the move away from correctional
treatment rehabilitation programs, and toward punishment for the sake
of punishment
Possible explanations offered for the punitive turn include
Ans✓✓✓•Extensive media coverage of particularly horrendous crimes
•The emergence of victims' rights groups and their influence on criminal
justice policy
•The growth of the private prison industry in the US (prison for profit)
A Critical Criminology Perspective Ans✓✓✓•Critical criminologists
generally agree that the punitive turn is linked to politicians in the US
and Canada seizing on crime as an issue that appeals to voters
•In particular, "tough on crime" policies seem to appeal to voters
,What is Critical Criminology? Ans✓✓✓•Critical criminology
encompasses a range of critical theories and perspectives that challenge
inequality and oppressive treatment in the criminal justice system
•Critical criminology starts with the assumption that power in distributed
unequally in society including in the criminal justice system
•Critical criminologists not only identify oppression but actively oppose
oppression by raising public awareness participating in protests, etc.
Commonality Ans✓✓✓•Wide variety of approaches evidenced in
radical, feminist, left realists, postmodernist theories, with no clear
agreement
•Common thread between them is that they are "critical", and
"countercultural" (in contrast to social control theories)
•They all question basic assumptions about social order, and the purpose
of law
Marxist Influences Ans✓✓✓•Many of the earlier critical criminologists
were influenced by Marxism
•They were interested in class relations, the social structure of
capitalism, and how capitalism produces social inequality
,•Over the years, critical criminology diverged from its earlier Marxism
roots, coming to encompass feminist criminologists, critical race
scholars, post structuralism criminologist, and peace- making
criminologists(huey)
Neo-Marxism Ans✓✓✓-Shifts from marxism to neo-marxism can be
traced to ian taylor, paul Walton and jock young, who wrote the 1973
book the new criminology, and co-edited the 1975 book critical
criminology
-Taylor, Walton and young incorporated Marxist thinking with the in
teractionist perspective (symbolic interaction/labelling theory )
Policing the Crisis Ans✓✓✓-Another ex// of Neo Marxism would be the
hall et al.'s plicing the crisis about the moral panics in the uk
surrounding muggings
Left Realism Ans✓✓✓•"Left realism" developed in response to claims
that earlier critical criminologists were "left idealist
(ie earlier critical criminologists tended to blame crime on capitalism,
and thought that socialism would solve the problem)
•Associated with the thinking of British critical criminologists John lea
and jock young
, (jock young were a co-author of the 1973 book the new criminology and
coeditor of the 1975 book critical criminology)
•Asks for reforms to the criminal justice system
•Calls for more emphasis on community based solutions
•Less reliance on incarceration, more reliance on compensation
(restitution to victims)
Left realists have drawn attention to three important, inherited concepts
Ans✓✓✓•Relative deprivation:
Where members of a particular group feel deprived of things to which
others have access
•Subculture:
"a segment of society that forms in response to a shared problem"
•Marginalization:
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE
ANSWERS BRAND NEW EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+ PASS
Incarceration Rates in the US Ans✓✓✓•In 2012, 7 million Americans
were "under some form of correctional supervision" (Huey)
•In 2012, more than 2.2 million Americans were incarcerated in local
jails and federal or state prisons
the punitive turn Ans✓✓✓•refers to the move away from correctional
treatment rehabilitation programs, and toward punishment for the sake
of punishment
Possible explanations offered for the punitive turn include
Ans✓✓✓•Extensive media coverage of particularly horrendous crimes
•The emergence of victims' rights groups and their influence on criminal
justice policy
•The growth of the private prison industry in the US (prison for profit)
A Critical Criminology Perspective Ans✓✓✓•Critical criminologists
generally agree that the punitive turn is linked to politicians in the US
and Canada seizing on crime as an issue that appeals to voters
•In particular, "tough on crime" policies seem to appeal to voters
,What is Critical Criminology? Ans✓✓✓•Critical criminology
encompasses a range of critical theories and perspectives that challenge
inequality and oppressive treatment in the criminal justice system
•Critical criminology starts with the assumption that power in distributed
unequally in society including in the criminal justice system
•Critical criminologists not only identify oppression but actively oppose
oppression by raising public awareness participating in protests, etc.
Commonality Ans✓✓✓•Wide variety of approaches evidenced in
radical, feminist, left realists, postmodernist theories, with no clear
agreement
•Common thread between them is that they are "critical", and
"countercultural" (in contrast to social control theories)
•They all question basic assumptions about social order, and the purpose
of law
Marxist Influences Ans✓✓✓•Many of the earlier critical criminologists
were influenced by Marxism
•They were interested in class relations, the social structure of
capitalism, and how capitalism produces social inequality
,•Over the years, critical criminology diverged from its earlier Marxism
roots, coming to encompass feminist criminologists, critical race
scholars, post structuralism criminologist, and peace- making
criminologists(huey)
Neo-Marxism Ans✓✓✓-Shifts from marxism to neo-marxism can be
traced to ian taylor, paul Walton and jock young, who wrote the 1973
book the new criminology, and co-edited the 1975 book critical
criminology
-Taylor, Walton and young incorporated Marxist thinking with the in
teractionist perspective (symbolic interaction/labelling theory )
Policing the Crisis Ans✓✓✓-Another ex// of Neo Marxism would be the
hall et al.'s plicing the crisis about the moral panics in the uk
surrounding muggings
Left Realism Ans✓✓✓•"Left realism" developed in response to claims
that earlier critical criminologists were "left idealist
(ie earlier critical criminologists tended to blame crime on capitalism,
and thought that socialism would solve the problem)
•Associated with the thinking of British critical criminologists John lea
and jock young
, (jock young were a co-author of the 1973 book the new criminology and
coeditor of the 1975 book critical criminology)
•Asks for reforms to the criminal justice system
•Calls for more emphasis on community based solutions
•Less reliance on incarceration, more reliance on compensation
(restitution to victims)
Left realists have drawn attention to three important, inherited concepts
Ans✓✓✓•Relative deprivation:
Where members of a particular group feel deprived of things to which
others have access
•Subculture:
"a segment of society that forms in response to a shared problem"
•Marginalization:
