CRIMINOLOGY UNIT 3 NOTES EXAM SCRIPT
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◉ seductions of crime. Answer: people engage in crime because of
the excitement involved, and people can control situations they
otherwise couldn't
◉ Katz (1988). Answer: theorist of crime seductions
◉ Social Reaction Theories. Answer: theorizes that society creates
crime by passing laws; societies define deviance by declaring certain
behaviors to be "bad", and these behaviors vary from time to time
and place to place
◉ Controlology. Answer: fundamental idea of the criminal justice
system is not to punish or deter criminals, but to manifest state
power; state attempts to maintain its legitimacy by packaging
control efforts so that they appear reasonable, humane, and
necessary
◉ policy implications of labeling theory. Answer: 1)
deinstitutionalization
2) diversion away from the criminal justice system
, ◉ policy implications of other approaches (controlology). Answer:
redistribution of power
◉ consensus of values (conflict criminology). Answer: conflicts in
society are handled/regulated by the government (makes decisions
based on majority)
◉ conflict of interest (conflict criminology). Answer: government
regulates conflict based on level of benefit of the arguing party
(more economically/politically powerful have an advantage)
◉ Conflict Criminology. Answer: the role government plays in
creating a criminogenic environment; the relationship of
personal/group power in controlling and shaping the criminal law;
the role of bias in the operations of the criminal justice system; the
relationship between a capitalist free-enterprise economy and crime
rates
◉ conduct norms. Answer: certain values on things that can be
ethically debated (marijuana, abortion)
◉ primary cultural conflicts. Answer: two groups with different
conduct norms in close proximity to one another
2026 FULL SOLUTION PRACTICE
◉ seductions of crime. Answer: people engage in crime because of
the excitement involved, and people can control situations they
otherwise couldn't
◉ Katz (1988). Answer: theorist of crime seductions
◉ Social Reaction Theories. Answer: theorizes that society creates
crime by passing laws; societies define deviance by declaring certain
behaviors to be "bad", and these behaviors vary from time to time
and place to place
◉ Controlology. Answer: fundamental idea of the criminal justice
system is not to punish or deter criminals, but to manifest state
power; state attempts to maintain its legitimacy by packaging
control efforts so that they appear reasonable, humane, and
necessary
◉ policy implications of labeling theory. Answer: 1)
deinstitutionalization
2) diversion away from the criminal justice system
, ◉ policy implications of other approaches (controlology). Answer:
redistribution of power
◉ consensus of values (conflict criminology). Answer: conflicts in
society are handled/regulated by the government (makes decisions
based on majority)
◉ conflict of interest (conflict criminology). Answer: government
regulates conflict based on level of benefit of the arguing party
(more economically/politically powerful have an advantage)
◉ Conflict Criminology. Answer: the role government plays in
creating a criminogenic environment; the relationship of
personal/group power in controlling and shaping the criminal law;
the role of bias in the operations of the criminal justice system; the
relationship between a capitalist free-enterprise economy and crime
rates
◉ conduct norms. Answer: certain values on things that can be
ethically debated (marijuana, abortion)
◉ primary cultural conflicts. Answer: two groups with different
conduct norms in close proximity to one another
