Scenario Questions
Gender and crime
Queer criminology
Rural criminology
Toss up
100

Mackenzie watches her brother being bullied. As a result, she feels negative emotions and begins to act out.

Vicarious strain

100

What did early criminology fail to address from the feminist criminology perspective?

Gender

100

In the 1950s and 60s, those who transgressed binary understandings of gender and sexuality were labelled this

social sexual deviants

100

Any act of violence, such as assault, armed robbery, attempted murder, murder, sexual assault, or any other act aimed at inflicting bodily harm against any individual living, working on or visiting a farm.

Violence against farmers

100

Park and Burgess (1925) came up with this model to explain neighbourhood crime rates

The concentric zone model

200

Vanessa wants to break into Sephora to steal an eyeshadow palette. She notices that there is a camera and refrains from stealing. What is the camera an example of?

Target hardening

200

Butler argued that gender is a...

Performance

200

The failure to include queer people when doing research on crime and offending has reinforced the idea of...

Invisible offenders

200

The belief that rural crime rates were historically low and now they are rising is an example of a...

Myth about rural space

200

This approach to studying deviance defines deviance based upon how common or rare a behaviour is

Statistical approach

300

Liam is a researcher who is interested in studying environmental crimes. He travels to do research in spaces that have been impacted by deforestation. What perspective might he adopt when doing this research?

Green criminology

300

Which scholars were at the forefront of feminist criminology in 1988

Chesney-Lind and Daly

300

Queer criminologists have called for scholars to move away from using older theories and perspectives to study queer offending and victimization. What phenomenon are we being asked to move away from?

"Adding and stirring"

300

How many myths about rural space did we cover?

4

300

This perspective assumes that people are inherently evil or are possessed, and that is what causes crime

The demonic perspective

400

Melanie is out on bail. She has a series of conditions to follow that are meant to deter her from committing more crimes.

Specific deterrence

400

R.W. Connell taught us that in order to study power, we must study...

The powerful

400

What is the merged perspective that Prof W. uses for her research?

Rural queer criminology

400

What is something that is stolen frequently in rural spaces?

Farming equipment

400

This perspective was largely adopted from Marxist criminology and aims to understand (mainly) class disparities in crime, criminalization, and the justice system broadly.

Critical criminology

500

Hunter is unhoused. He is struggling to stay warm in the winter. He notices that there are spikes on sewer grates that prevent him from sleeping on them. 

Hostile architecture 

500

Feminist criminologists argued that we must incorporate these types of methods to study lived experiences

Qualitative

500

The invisibility element is one of two elements of the...

Homosexuality deviancy thesis

500

Who are the scholars pushing for more research in rural criminology?

Dekeseredy and Donnermeyer

500

What are the three components of the Theory of African American Offending (TAAO)

Racial discrimination, negative emotions & resillience