Criminology Chapter 9 Flashcards
What was one group of academic scholars that attributed the rise in prison populations to a shift in public attitudes? What are they called and what was the shift called?
Check third paragraph of pg.193
What were some explanations that explain the shift as to why so many people have been locked up in the United States, when crime rates have been consistently declining?
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What is one thing most critical criminologists agreed upon?
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What happened to Canada when it took a punitive turn?
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Define critical criminology
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Define Marxism
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What are some forms of oppositions?
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What were the origins of critical criminology?
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What view did early critical criminologists shared?
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What are the types of scholars in critical criminology and what do they generally do? 5 types
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What are Neo-Marxists’s cues based on? Which work? What did the two thinkers argued for?
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What do Neo-Marxist criminologists focus on and how do they view crime? What are these type of criminologists referred as?
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Define conflict theories
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What are three key ideas derived from traditional Marxism and “The New Criminology”?
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Why is the group called Neo-Marxist and not simply Marxist?
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Define interactionist perspective
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What is one example of how labelling theory helps flesh out Marxist ideas?
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Define moral panic
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What are three examples of neo-Marxist criminologists?
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What did Rigakos and Ergul argue?
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What does Jeffery Reiman argue for?
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What is the first paragraph of “The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison” about?
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What is the second paragraph of “The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: about?
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What did feminist criminologists noted about the work of mainstream criminologists and what are two significant problems it can result from?
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Define patriarchy
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What do feminist criminologists seek to do?
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What are four major forms of feminist criminology and what are they about?
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What is the “war on drugs” and what impact did it have?
Check first paragraph of box 9.2 in pg.199