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What is the Chicago School of crime? - Answer Created idea of the sociology of crime. What are some areas of study for the Chicago school? - Answer Social issues (immigration, segregation, poverty, culture, etc) Societal development causes change in norms Focus on gangs Norms dictate human behavior What is normative disorganization? - Answer Conflict of norms. Norms in poor area are often criminal What is Merton's Anomie (Strain) Theory? - Answer Crime happens when goa...

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Biological Determinism - Answer The belief that men and women behave differently due to inherent sex differences related to their biology Biosocial Theories - Answer -Theories that examine the combined effects of biology, behavior, and the environment on criminal behavior. -Biological and sociological and how they interact with each other. How your biological traits combine with your social environment Physiognomy - Answer -the art of judging human character from *facial features...

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The _____ nature of social problems describes societal conditions that harm certain segments of the population - Answer `Subjective The sociological imagination involves which of the following components? - Answer A focus on social, economic, and historical circumstances The assumption by the members of a group that the culture of some other group is not only inferior, but also deficient, is called ____ - Answer Cultural Deprivation Recidivism is the ____ crime - Answer Rein...

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In our current university situation, Professors would be considered the authorities and students would be considered the subjects. Why? - Answer Professors have institutional authority and students do not. Law and punishment systems are unjust and designed to control the population under which of the following? - Answer Capitalism Crimes like burglary and robbery, and even more violent crimes like assault and murder, ultimately reproduce the capitalist social structure and therefore ...

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HENRY AND MILOVANOVIC (2005): Postmodernist Criminology: - Answer - truth is unknowable - rational thought is merely one way of thinking - knowledge is not cumulative - facts are only social constructions - criticism assumes an alternative truth that can be found ARRIGO (2003): Postmodern criminological thought (3) - Answer 1) The centrality of language 2) Partial knowledge and provisional truth 3) Deconstruction, difference and possibility THE NEW CRIMINOLOGY - Answer ...

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What was Columbine? - Answer -Largest school shooting at the time -2 males murdered 12 students, 1 teacher and later took their own lives -Intent of bombing the school, but backfired so they had to shoot What are the units of analysis? - Answer Biological, psychological, social psychological and sociological What is the biological unit of analysis? - Answer Genetic, chemical, neurological and physiological What is the psychological unit of analysis? - Answer Personality, ...

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Theories - Answer -subject to change over time -based on facts Common explanations for the Columbine shooting - Answer -family background -social marginalization -mental illness -access to guns -fame/media attention Everyday explanations for crime - Answer -genetics -hometown upbringing -bad peer influence -social upbringing -not enough crackdown on criminals -not noticing warnings Why do we need theory? - Answer -helps us understand "why" -helps us understa...

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gender - Answer social construct of masculine and feminine perform a particular way sex - Answer biological trait intersectionality - Answer differences that come together facing challenges as both identities oppressions are interlinked and cannot be solved alone compound liberal feminists - Answer believe it is possible to work within the system to change things believe that things should be based on meritocracy believe that women deserve equal treatment in CJS m...

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Symbolic Interactionalism (S.I) - Answer -*interactions with symbols create meaning among us* -ex. high five, waving hi, peace sign, etc. -different interpretations = different symbols -*roots* of labelling theory = S.I. -not just stimulius --> response, but's it's also interpretation of symbols -->stimulius -> interpretation -> response -interpretation of acts/definitions (ex. smoking/tattoos) *change over tme* 3 Types of Symbolic Interaction People - Answer 1. ...

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Three major types of social structure theories: - Answer social disorganization, strain theory and culture conflict theory - all three have a number of common elements, and the classification is often a matter of which aspect a writer focuses on Social structure theory - Answer theories emphasize poverty, lack of education, absence of marketable skills, and deviant subcultural values as fundamental causes of crime. These theories, which portray crime as the result of an individual'...

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Public order crimes - Answer sometimes called victimless crimes, these acts interfere with public order, such as loitering for the purposes of prostitution Vigilante - Answer Someone who takes the law into their own hands, who acts outside the law in the interest of justice Moral Crusades - Answer Efforts by interest-groups to stamp out behaviour they find objectionable; typically directed at public order crimes, such as drug use or pornography Moral entrepreneurs - Answer I...

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Left Realism - Answer Examines the role that capitalism plays in society, with a specific focus on predatory street crime - Tough on crime policies are a crisis - Crime prevention and criminal justice reform Cultural Criminology - Answer Jeff Ferrel Culture: values, beliefs, symbolic meanings shared by members of a social system Social actors: perpetrators, police, victims, etc. Culture as the symbolic environment occupied by individuals and groups and involves threads of collecti...

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