Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

Sociology > Crime Sociologists > Flashcards

Crime Sociologists Flashcards

1
Q

Crime is inevitable and universal

A

Durkheim

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

There are several reasons for crime and deviance in every society

A

Durkheim

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Boundary maintenance

A

Durkheim

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Crime is a warning that society isn’t working properly

A

Cohen

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Official crime stats don’t give a valid picture on crime so shouldn’t be used as a resource of fact. (Just for conversation)

A

Cicourel

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Crime and deviance is socially constructed

A

Becker

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Whether a deviant act is labelled depends on a number of factors.

A

Becker

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Negotiation of Justice Study

A

Cicourel

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

In the media moral panics are created and deviants are demonised when it comes to powerless groups.

A

Cohen

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Deviance Amplification Spiral

A

Wilkins originally came up with the concept
Cohen uses a spiral to show moral panics and their effect.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Disintegrative and reintegrative shaming

A

Braithwaite

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Being labelled as ‘different’ turns into being labelled ‘paranoid’

A

Lemert

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

When a patient enters a psychiatric hospital,the patients personal identity is replaced by one of an ‘inmate’.

A

Goffman

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Pseudo-patient study

A

Rosenhan

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Interactionists too quickly explain crime committed by WC/ ethnic minority as a social construction.

A

Lea and Young

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Crime is a rational response to the capitalist system.

A

Gordon

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Laws to protect private property are an essential part of the capitalist economy.

A

Chambliss

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

The capitalist state is reluctant to pass laws that regulate the activities of businesses or threaten their profitability.

A

Snider

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

‘Street crimes’ are far more likely to be reported and pursued by the police.

A

Reiman

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Selective enforcement of the law gives the impression that criminals are mainly working class.

A

Gordon

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Laws can appear to benefit the working-class, but benefit the ruling.

A

Pearce

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

In 200 firms all had broken health and safety laws, only one. 5% had been prosecuted.

A

Carson

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Fully social theory of deviance

A

Taylor et al

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

White collar crime is ‘ a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation’.

A

Sutherland

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Corporate crime is ‘any illegal actor mission that is a result of deliberate decisions of culpable negligence by a legitimate business organisation intended to benefit the business’.
Pearce and Tombs
26
White-collar crime does more damage than Street crime.
Tombs
27
biosocial theory of crime
Wilson and Herrnstein
28
Main cause of crime is low intelligence
Herrnstein and Murray
29
New rabble
Murray
30
Growing up around criminals
Bennet et al
31
Differential association
Sutherland
32
Rational choice
Ron Clarke
33
Routine Activity theory
Felson
34
Broken Windows Theory
Wilson and Kelling
35
Relative Deprivation
Runciman
36
Increased individualism in society makes relative deprivation worse
Young
37
Late, modernity has worsened crime.
Young
38
Modern day policies are doing attempts to re-create the golden age of the 1950s
Young
39
Chivalry thesis
Pollack
40
Conducted a study providing evidence for ‘chivalry thesis’
Graham and Bowling
41
Conducted a study providing evidence against ‘chivalry thesis’
Buckle and Farrington
42
Jailing of women is not based on the seriousness of the crime, but on the court assessment of them as a wife, mother and daughter.
Carlen
43
Functionalist sex role theory
Parsons
44
Criminality is innate
Lombroso and Ferrero
45
Patriarchal control theory
Heidensohn
46
Class and gender deals
Carlen
47
Liberation thesis
Adler
48
Hegemonic and subordinate masculinity
Messerschmidt
49
Bodily capital
Winlow
50
Tough guise
Jackson Katz
51
Institutional racism-study on occupational culture
Simon Holdoway
52
Argue ethnic differences in crime stats represent real differences in levels of offending
Lea and Young (left realists)
53
Relative dep,marginalisation,subcultures
Lea and Young
54
Policing the crisis-‘mugging’ in the early 1970s study
Hall et al
55
Black young men are unfairly targeted by the media.
Paul Gilroy (Neo Marxist)
56
Found that key focus on crime in media was murder and petty crimes.
Schlesinger and Tumber
57
Found newspaper reporting of rape cases increased from under a quarter of all cases in 1951 to over a third in 1985.
Soothill and Walby
58
News values
Galtung and Ruge
59
Copycat violence
Albert Bandura
60
Found in USA that those who watched over 4 hours of TV a day had higher levels of crime .
Gerbner et al
61
Found tabloid readers and heavy watchers of TV expressing greater fear of becoming a victim of crime.
Schlesinger and Tumber
62
Viewers give different meanings to media violence.
Greer and Reiner
63
Media turns crime itself into a commodity
Jock Young
64
Folk devils and moral panics
Stan Cohen
65
Globalisation of crime
Held et al
66
Spiral of denial
Stan Cohen
67
Holocaust shows modern features
Bauman
68
Authorisation,routinisation,dehumanisation
Kerman and Hamilton
69
Categories of state crime
McLaughlin
70
State crime is ‘illegal or deviant activity, perpetrated by, or with the complicity of state agencies’
Green and Ward
71
Primary and secondary green crime
Nigel South
72
McMafia
Glenny
73
Globalisation created greater inequality and rising crime
Ian Taylor
74
Strain theory
Merton
75
Functional sex role theory
Parsons

Sociology (9 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions