Criminological Theories
This theory argues that the causes of crime are rooted in social conditions empowering the wealthy and the politically well organized but disenfranchising those less fortunate.
What is Radical Criminology?
This is when the government removes programs that are meant to benefit the people.
What is withdrawal of public services?
This theory argues that women's oppression stems from men's inherent biological dominance. Arguably not actually feminist.
What is radical feminism?
This term is used to describe the emotional appeal of crime; sometimes people just like a thrill.
What is edgework?
These were outlawed in the 1800s for being unconstitutional. In the modern day, people who are incarcerated for unpaid fines are in a modern version of these.
What are debtor's prisons?
This theory argues that the search for causes for crime is morally bankrupt because it is a search for definitions of crime, criminals, and cause built on androcentric, sexist, classist, and racist beliefs.
This mechanism refers to valuing a materialistic and hard culture, where this is exalted.
What is individual competition?
This theory argues that gender-role socialization is the cause of women's oppression.
What is liberal feminism?
This term describes violence circulating in the media, and crime being amplified and distorted because of it.
What is media looping and spirals?
America is considered one of these; this is what occurs when societies where the pursuit of private gain becomes the dominant organizing principle of social and economic life.
What are market societies?
This theory argues that social control agencies and the citizens they serve should work together to alleviate human suffering and by doing so reduce crime
What is Peacemaking Criminology?
This mechanism refers to a lack stable and rewarding work, where this is not valued.
What is labor?
This theory argues that oppression of women stems from their position in capitalist society?
What is Marxist Feminism?
Term explains the increase of violent crime in recent decades; argues our overly organized culture led to a widespread desire in "oppositional" forms of pleasure.
What is a carnival of crime?
You watched a documentary about this prisoner rehabilitation program. An example of convict criminology, it provided prisoners technical skills as well as socio-emotional development.
What is YMI (Young Men's Incorporated)?
A theory that focuses on the lived experiences of convicts.
What is Convict Criminology?
This mechanism refers to the growing gap between the rich and the poor.
What is economic inequality?
This feminist theory attempts to deconstruct social concepts used in discussions about crime and justice.
What is Postmodern Feminism?
This term refers to an intimate understanding of events from the point of view of participants
What is Verstehen?
This branch of peacemaking criminology is considered the future of the criminal justice system- it is the opposite of retributive justice.
What is Restorative Justice?
This theory views crime, criminality, and crime control as cultural products.
What is cultural criminology?
This mechanism refers to the prevalence of violence in the media, the widespread use of guns, and the value placed on military culture.
What is marketing of violence?
A criminology model redirecting criminologists’ thinking to include a gender awareness.
What is Feminist Criminology?
This confusing term is for when a person's personal history is adrift in a larger shifting cultural context. An example would be homelessness.
What is liquid ethnography?
An example of retributive justice, this "food" is fed to prisoners. It meets all nutritional requirements, but tastes like nothing.
What is Nutri-Loaf?