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6. who discusses organised crime amongst elite groups?

  • chambliss
  • pearce
  • cohen
  • south

7. who discussed the liberation thesis?

  • Adler
  • archer
  • parsons
  • durkheim

8. what is utilitarian crime?

  • hedonistic; for material gain
  • symbolic; vandalism, violence

9. who sees crime as societies 'safety valve' eg relieving the instrumental rolse through prostitution?

  • cloward
  • Davis
  • merton
  • Durkheim

10. who claims men have an innate criminality?

  • Lombroso and terrero
  • heidensohn
  • cicourel
  • white

11. what does merton say a 'conformist' response is?

  • rejecting institutional cultural strain, creating own goals and means of achieving them
  • accepting the goals and means of cultural strain
  • loosing sight of the goals but accepting the means of cultural strain
  • rejecting the goals and means of cultural strain

12. what is control theory?

  • men have an innate criminality
  • the class and gender deals; dont need to offend because of material rewards after work and emotional rewards for performing the expressive role
  • women suffer patriarchy in the home, at work and in public
  • women and men are charged differently for the same crimes

13. who discussed 'boundary maintenance'? (formal sanctions lead to collective social morality and social solidarity) functionalist

  • Durkheim
  • cohen
  • cloward
  • Ohlin

14. what is meant by crime as a warning sign?

  • indicator of social dysfunction and need for positive social change
  • indicator of female liberation from patriarchy
  • indicator of bad policing
  • indicator of social consensus

15. who talks about the 3 types of subculture; criminal, conflict and retreatist?

  • davis
  • cloward & ohlin
  • parsons
  • merton

16. who discusses selective law enforcement and the mystification process of crime?

  • chambliss
  • Box
  • adler
  • gordon

17. who discussed anomie and a specialised society?

  • durkheim
  • merton
  • cloward
  • davis

18. who talks about laws as performing an ideological function eg health laws to maintain the capitalist labour force?

  • Pearce
  • merton
  • gordon
  • Chambliss

19. who explained that crime is undesirable- 'society of saints'?

  • merton
  • Durkheim
  • davis
  • parsons

20. who discussed strain theory?

  • ohlin
  • davis
  • merton
  • durkheim