Midterm

Question 1

Anomie

Answer 1

Persons values and norms disappear leading to deviance

Question 2

Governmentality

Answer 2

State distances itself from its role of protecting from risk (state focuses on bigger things rather than day to day living)

Question 3

Hegemony

Answer 3

Elite manipulating the morals and values of the working class

Question 4

Hyperreal

Answer 4

Blurred lines between fiction and realty (value and power)

Question 5

Master status

Answer 5

Stats that holds highest perceived triumph/importance

Question 6

Moral panics

Answer 6

Person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to society

Question 7

Positivism

Post modernism

Answer 7

Science can measure phenomena and make universal explanations

We must reject the search for truth and knowledge

Question 8

Socialism

Answer 8

The redistribution of wealth

Question 9

Functionalism

Answer 9

Crime is natural and necessary

Question 10

Social disorganization

Social cultural theory

Answer 10

Looks at crime rates and areas (crime zones)

Cultures teach criminal behaviour

Question 11

Pluralism

Answer 11

Plurality of power in competing interest groups and political parties

Question 12

Differential association

Answer 12

People learn deviance from friends

Question 13

Chicago school

Answer 13

Deviance based on environment

Question 14

Left realism

Right realism

Answer 14

Criminological research should be progressive and attainable (crime is specific to time, space and conditions)

All crime is bad all criminals are bad (get tough on crime)

Question 15

Hagans typology (3 measures of seriousness)

4 kinds of deviance

Answer 15

How serious is the harm
How consensus is it?
Severity of punishment?

Consensus crime, conflict crime, social deviation, social diversion

Question 16

Critical conflict perspective: group conflict

Thorstein sellin

George vold

Answer 16

Sellin - law defined by dominant groups

Vold - more groups in your life = more conflicts (different ways of thinking)

Question 17

Symbolic interactionism

Answer 17

• Reality is constructed

- Meanings are communicated

Question 18

Critical criminology

History

Answer 18

Societal problems create criminals not individual flaws

Late 60’s due to consensus approaches

Question 19

Marx

Alienation of freedom

Norm conflict

Symbolic violence

Answer 19

Intangible barriers to happiness

Different groups have different norms

News to alienate and discredit our way of thinking

Question 20

Instrumentalism Marxism

Structuralist Marxism

Answer 20

Elite directly involved
Maintain the system

Indirect benefits
Legit accumulation

Question 21

Post modernism Derrida

Goal of postmodernists

Answer 21

Viewed the world as a series of signs that are created through language (Meaning is always temporal)

Develop a understanding of where one standing in relation to understanding

Question 22

Muncie article

Reconceptualize crime

Recode crime

Redress *

Answer 22

Criminology needs to do more than just answer

Deconstruct the legality of crime

Crime foes beyond the law

• redefine our understanding of right and wrong

Question 23

Dedifferentiation

Answer 23

Collapse of distinction and rise of media symbols

Question 24

Abolitionism

Answer 24

Reducing prisons, capital punishment