Crimes Applied to current Theoretical Perspectives
Types of Crime
Who Commits Crime?
Criminal Justice System
Surprise!
100
Which theorists feel that people in positions of power use law to protect their own interests. They also suggest that the activities of the poor and lower-income individuals are more likely to be defined as criminal than those from the middle and upper-income backgrounds?
What is Conflict Theorists
100
What is it called when a business organization supplies illegal goods and/or services for profit. (e.g drug trafficking)
What is "ORGANIZED CRIME"
100
At this stage in life, crime rates are typically the highest
What is adolescence. (“Rates peaking between the ages of 15 and 18, and steadily decline with age” (pg. 213))
100
Who keeps the peace of a society by diffusing arguments, enforcing laws and controlling boisterous crowds?
What is the Police
100
Define Crime and provide and example
What is an act that violates criminal law and is punishable with fines, jail terms, and other sanctions e.g rape/robbery/murder/assult
200
Marx's theory that influenced a critical perspective based on the assumption that the criminal justice system protects the power and privilege of the capitalist class
What is the Conflict Approach?
200
This type of crime is associated with breaking and entering, theft, prostitution, murder, and sexual assault.
What is "STREET CRIME"
200
true or false: proportionately women are involved in more crime in developing/3rd world countries compared to women who are in developed/1st world countries.
FALSE
200
Where is it decided if an accused suspect is in fact guilty of commiting the crime they are accused of?
What is a Court
200
A term used to describe the initial act of rule breaking
What is primary deviance?
300
The proposition that individuals have a greater tendency to deviate from social norms when they frequently associate with persons who favour deviance over conformity
What is the Differential Association Theory (Symbolic Interactionist Perspective).
300
What is it called when an employee commits an illegal act on the behalf of, and with the support of, the company they work for?
What is "CORPORATE CRIME"
300
TRUE or FALSE: People from higher socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to be arrested for property crimes and violence
What is FALSE; people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely
300
A criminal is convicted and sent to a corrective facility in order to change and return to society as a law-abiding citizen. What is another term for this process of change?
What is Rehabilitation
300
The proposition that deviants are those people who have been successfully labelled as such by others
What is labeling theory?
400
The structured inequalities of race, class, and gender lead to the criminalization of women. Women’s deviance and crime is seen as rational response to gender discrimination. Some female crimes are attributed to women’s lack of job opportunities and to stereotypical expectations about appropriate roles for women.
What is the Feminist Perspective?
400
This type of crime includes committing illegal or unethical acts involving the usurpation of power by government officials, or illegal or unethical acts perpetrated against a government by outsiders seeking to make a political statement or to overthrow the government
What is "POLITICAL CRIME"
400
True or false: In todays developed societies such as Canada women and men have an equal crime rate.
What is FALSE, women have a higher crime rate compared to those in developing countries, yet the rate is still lower then the crime rate of men
400
When someone is jailed in order to be physically restrained from commiting more crime, it is referred to as:
What is Incapacitation
400
What are Canadian law enforcement officers not required to report on those who they are investigating in the field?
What is Race
500
The likelihood of deviant behaviour increases when a person’s ties to society are weakened and broken.
What is control theory/social bonding theory?
500
This type of crime has risen in the 21st century with the advances of technology and globalization?
What is "CYBERCRIME"
500
In the United States, which two ethnicities are most overrepresented in arrest data?
What are African-American and Hispanic
500
Seeking to repair the harm that has been done to both the victim and society is a form of justice known as:
What is Restorative Justice
500
What term describes any behaviour, belief or condition that violates cultural norms of the society or group in which it occurs?
What is Deviance
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