crime key sociologists

Question 1

Who argues that crime is inevitable and there are positive functions of crime

Answer 1

Durkheim

Question 2

Who a-some about strain theory as a cause of crime

Answer 2

Merton

Question 3

Who spoke about the bonds of attachment theory as a cause of crime

Answer 3

Hirischi

Question 4

Who argues that working class subcultures experience status frustration and that this leads to crime

Answer 4

Cohen

Question 5

Who spoke about the illegitimate opportunity structure and the three types of subcultures

Answer 5

Cloward and Ohlin

Question 6

Who said the underclass was an explanation for crime

Answer 6

Murray

Question 7

Who argues that crime is the product of social interactions and that crime is socially constructed

Answer 7

Becker

Question 8

Who spoke about why working class were mostly criminals do to the two stages of being charged

Answer 8

Cicourel

Question 9

Who spoke about primary and secondary deviance

Answer 9

Lemert

Question 10

Who spoke about labelling as a cause of deviant behaviour

Answer 10

Becker

Question 11

Who argued that the cost of corporate crime outweighs the cost of street crime

Answer 11

Snider

Question 12

who spoke about a dog eat dog society

Answer 12

Gordon

Question 13

Who says the super wealthy segregate themselves from the wealthy

Answer 13

Bauman

Question 14

Who said that economic crime represents rational responses to competitiveness and inequality of life in a capitalist society

Answer 14

Chambliss

Question 15

Who argues that the police focus on working class areas and focusses on prosecuting the working class

Answer 15

Gordon

Question 16

Who argued that capitalist states are reluctant to pass laws which regulate large capitalist concerns such as pollution

Answer 16

Snider

Question 17

Who argues that crime is a reaction to the mundane and that crime is seductive

Answer 17

Katz and Lyng

Question 18

Who coined the term edge work in terms of crime

Answer 18

Lyng

Question 19

Who speaks about synoptic surveillance

Answer 19

Mathiesen

Question 20

Who argues society has shifted from sovereign power to disciplinary power

Answer 20

Foucault

Question 21

Who speaks about late modernity an suffering relative deprivation

Answer 21

Jock Young

Question 22

Who argues about realistic conflict theory as a cause of crime

Answer 22

Wilson

Question 23

Who argues about routine activities theory in committing crime

Answer 23

Cohen

Question 24

Who speaks about broken windows theory as a cause of crime

Answer 24

Wilson and kelling

Question 25

Who argues that the underclass are a cause of crime

Answer 25

Murray

Question 26

Who argues that relative deprivation is a cause of crime

Answer 26

Lea and young

Question 27

Who argued that the public are more worried about crime than ever and prisons are simply used to convince the public that they are taking a tough approach on crime

Answer 27

Garland

Question 28

Who coined the term total institutions

Answer 28

Goffman

Question 29

who argued that women are more skilled at deciding than men as they are able to hide menstruation meaning they can hide their crimes

Answer 29

Pollack

Question 30

who argues that women are the victims of a sexist criminal justice system

Answer 30

Smart

Question 31

Who argues that increased economic opportunity for women have lead to higher female crime rates

Answer 31

Alder

Question 32

Who argues that asian families tend to be more stable

Answer 32

Webster

Question 33

Who speaks about policing the crisis

Answer 33

Stuart hall

Question 34

Who argues that there is a political response to racism

Answer 34

Gilroy

Question 35

Who argues that crime is more newsworthy if it involved sex, celebrities or children

Answer 35

Jewkes

Question 36

Who argues that new technologies cause more manufactured green crime such as nuclear crime and genetic engineering

Answer 36

Beck

Question 37

Who says that the global crime economy is worth over one trillion per year

Answer 37

Castells

Question 38

Who argues that organised criminal gangs are important in tackling the trade in illegal goods and services

Answer 38

Glenny

Question 39

Who argues economic globalisation has lead to more crimes being committed by elite such as tax evasion and fraud

Answer 39

Taylor

Question 40

Who spoke about state crime

Answer 40

Mcloughlin

Question 41

Who argues that in unstable countries, corruption and gaining wealth is a rational response to gaining political power

Answer 41

Collier