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Theories, concepts etc.

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  • Created by: Parsnip
  • Created on: 19-06-11 11:41
What are the formal controls of crime?
courts, laws etc
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Who, in the 19th century stated that criminals have shared biological characteristics?
Lombroso
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What psychological theory did Freud use to explain crime?
Oedipus Complex
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What are the 5 reactions to lack of means to attain goals, according to Merton's Strain Theory?
Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion.
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What was Hirschi's theory of?
Social Bonds.
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What type of sucide comes from someone with a lack of social integration?
egoistic
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What kind of suicide come from someone who is too socially integrated?
altruistic
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What kind of someone comes from someone believing life will not improve, as the result of an oppressive force in their lives?
fatalistic
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What kind of suicide occurs from when someone feels normlessness?
anomic
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What did Box say about the definitions of crime?
should be extended so that legal acts that are harmful are criminal
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What did Chambliss note about the way the police spend their time?
Mostly spent on working class, minor offences, rather than corporate or white collar.
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Who devised the New Criminology?
Taylor, Walton and Young.
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According to New Criminology, why do people commit crime?
as a political act, they are resisting the oppression of the state.
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What political theory does New Crimonology associate itself with?
Socialism
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Who left New Crimonology and became involved with Left Realism?
Young
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Left Realists describe three reasons for crime? Relative Deprivation, Marginalisation and Subculture?
True
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What do Left Realists think will help ease crime?
tackling it's causes
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Who Devised the concept of 'broken windows'
Wilson and Kelling
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What theory is Broken Windows most associated with?
Right Realism
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What did Albert Cohen say that working class youths suffer from?
status frustration
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Matza says we have subtarranean values, who is more likely to unleash them?
Youth subcultures
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What else did Matza note about criminal behaviour?
people drift in and out of it in their lifetime.
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Cloward and Ohlin noted three types of deviancy:
Conflict, Criminal and Retreatist.
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Miller claimed that working clas youths have focal concerns, what are some of them?
Smartness, toughness, fatalism, excitment
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Becker noted that our definition of deviance is not
fixed
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Box noted that people in jury service did what?
fiddled their expenses
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What did Lemert note?
primary and secondary deivance.
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What solutions do Postmodernists supply for tackling crime?
people buy goods to protect themselves and their homes
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Are you going to pass this exam and just generally have a jolly good time?
YES!!!
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Sim

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love ur last question class !!

Janki

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love ur last question class !!

Nyala

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its official, im going to fail

Emily

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what exam board is this? i am taking WJEC and managed to get 53% so don't think I am doing too bad...

Fyzah :p

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Whoohoo!! I got the last question right... I must be a genius ;)

LOL xD thanks Parsnip (btw, cool name :p)

A.A

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this is a really good quiz. thank u for posting it. loved ur last question :)

Hannah Farci

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REEEEEEEEAALLLLY helpful! thank you so much!

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