Class and Offending Flashcards
What are two dispositional theories?
Strain, Subculture
What is Hall and Scraton’s (1981) critical approach to the theory of class and offending?
The impact of over-policing and penalising
What are the three ambiguities about class as stated by Williams 1988?
Group, Rank and Formation
Relationship between crime and consumption (Field, 1990) (1): Short term property crime is?
Inversely related to consumption
Relationship between crime and consumption, (Field, 1990) (2): Long tern property crime is?
Positively related to consumption
Relationship between crime and consumption, (Field, 1990) (3): Long term personal crime is?
Positively related to consumption
Fill the gap: Hale 1990, Low paid employed males meant an ________ what? in ________ what? crime.
Low paid employed males mean in INCREASE in PROPERTY crime.
The Home Office National Prison Survey 1991 found what percentage of the of the prison population had non-manual jobs compared to what percentage of the general population?
The Home Office National Prison Survey 1991 found 18% of the of the prison population had non-manual jobs compared to 45% of the general population?
The Home Office National Prison Survey 1991 found what percentage of the of the prison population semi/ unskilled jobs compared to what percentage of the general population?
The Home Office National Prison Survey 1991 found 41% of the of the prison population semi/ unskilled jobs compared to 19% of the general population?
What percentage of young offenders had white collar parents?
8%
What percentage of young offenders on supervision orders had a male head of house in a non-manual job?
8%
What percentage of defendants in courts had professional/ managerial jobs?
5%
Which two academics argue that the class/ crime relationship is a myth?
Tittle et al, 1978; Donaway et al, 2000
Bennett 2004 said that lower class juveniles were more likely to be what 3 things by the Police?
Stopped, stopped and searched and receive a custodial sentence.
Bennett 1979 said that middle class juveniles are what?
More likely to receive a caution for the same offence than lower class.
Murray’s 1990 theory of the Underclass was about what?
A criminogenic culture
Reiner’s 2007 Political Economy theory is about what?
Crimes of the powerful and powerless
Complete: Wilkstrom’s 2006 study on _________ Risk is about the _________ of class and offending. It was a ____ _____ study on youth from Peterborough.
Complete: Wilkstrom’s 2006 study on INDIVIDUALISED Risk is about the RELEVANCE of class and offending. It was a SELF-REPORT study on youth from Peterborough.
The Criminalisation debate on the class/ criminal Justice link was by which authors?
Hall and Scraton, 1981
