CRIME

Question 1

Reiman and Leighton say that

Answer 1

“crime is a carnival mirror”

Question 2

What does crime correlate to?

Answer 2

• age
• social class
• visible minority status

Question 3

What is the difference between deviance and crime?

Answer 3

deviance is the diversion from the norm. crime diverts from the norm in an illegal manner

Question 4

What did Hagan study?

Answer 4

Consensus and conflict crimes

Question 5

What is a consensus crime

Answer 5

agreed by all that they’re the worst and carry the harshest sanctions

Question 6

what is a conflict crime?

Answer 6

agreed by everyone to be very harmful and have the harshest sanctions

Question 7

explain the three levels of control

Answer 7

formal by authority
informal by friends and family
and the strongest type, self control

Question 8

the crime funnel shows what at the top and what at the bottom?

Answer 8

crime is high on top. incarceration is low on bottom

Question 9

What did becker study?

Answer 9

moral crusaders and moral panic

Question 10

What causes moral panic and what’re the stages?

Answer 10

Self-proclaimed vigilantes.

1. concern: towards a group
2. hostility: towards the group
3. consensus: fear-mongering by community
4. disproportionality: exaggerated fear
5. volatility : arise and fade quickly

Question 11

how do pluralists create laws?

Answer 11

society reflects what it deems important and everyone has a say

Question 12

how do conflict theorists create laws?

Answer 12

the bourgeois create laws and the lower class is criminalised

Question 13

how do postmodernists create laws?

Answer 13

those who spread the news control law

Question 14

What is Merton’s theory?

Answer 14

strain theory –> when pressured enough, humans will commit crime and deviation

Question 15

What is the learning theory?

Answer 15

we learn deviation by interacting with deviants

Question 16

what is control theory>\?

Answer 16

people conform because of self control

Question 17

what is the majority of crime commited in canada?

Answer 17

property

Question 18

what does mala in se mean?

Answer 18

mala: bad
in se: evil
= consensus

Question 19

what does mala prohibita mean?

Answer 19

mala: bad
prohibita: prohibited
= conflict crime

Question 20

list Merton’s typology

Answer 20

1. conformity: follows the status quo way to get to society’s goal
2. innovation: wants society’s goal but follows illegitimate ways
3. ritualist: accepts he will never achieve goals but conforms anyways
4. retreatism: doesn’t want goal or the way
5. rebel: makes up new goal and new way