Criminology correct answers Study of crime as a social phenomenon.
5 Key Elements of Criminology correct answers 1. Definitions of crime and criminals
2. Origins of Law
3. Social Distribution of Crime
4. Causation of Crime
5. Societal Reactions to Crime
Organisational Model and Heirarchy of Credibility correct answers Media results are
oversimplified and fall into stereotyping; Gives voice to those percieved as most credibile by
society
Market Model and Backwards Law correct answers News based on audience interest; Crimes
that are the most rare gain the more attention and common crimes are ignored
Social Responsibility Model correct answers News has the responsibility to report what is
important and promote diversity in a democratic society
Propaganda Model correct answers Media reflects the intrests of the rich and powerful and
genrally leads to a misrepresentation of marginalised communities
Cultural Studies Perspective and Moral Panics/Folk Devils correct answers Focuses on how
people are portrayed in media and the subsequent understanding by society that creates meaning
into what crime is; Negative response by society to a new or different group
Institutional Racism correct answers Discriminaltion based on ethnicity within societal
institutions like police, welfare, and schools
, Systemic Racism correct answers Discrimination based on ethnicity within societal processes
like making laws or policies. Systemic racism leads to institutional racism
Consensus Approach correct answers Society generally agrees on who/what is criminal
Lombroso, Atavism, Stgmata, and Eugenics correct answers Observed physical differences
between the criminal and rest of population; a criminal's deviance; physical characteristics of
deviance; Encouaging desirable traits to procreate
Gene x Environment correct answers Genetic predisposition to crime + adverse environment =
increased risk of crminal behaviour
Operant Conditioning correct answers Rewarding desiarble behaviour and diciplining
undesirable behaviour
Anti-social Personality correct answers Not a mental illness; disreguard of rights of others,
impulsive, irresponsible, aggressive behaviour
Psychopathy correct answers Neurosynaptic disorder; deficient emotional responses, lack of
empathy, poor behavioural controls, antisocial deviance
Psychosis correct answers Severe mental disorder; imparment in percieving what is real and
what is not
Substance Abuse correct answers Systemic crime, economically compulsive crimes,
psychopharmacologically-driven crime
Evolutionary Theory correct answers A theory presented by the naturalist Charles Darwin;
Natural selection and reproductive fitness variance key components; Normalises male violence