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6. what is control theory?

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

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

  • Pearce
  • merton
  • gordon
  • Chambliss

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

  • Box
  • adler
  • chambliss
  • gordon

9. who discussed strain theory?

  • ohlin
  • davis
  • merton
  • durkheim

10. who discussed the liberation thesis?

  • durkheim
  • Adler
  • parsons
  • archer

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

  • davis
  • Durkheim
  • parsons
  • merton

12. what is utilitarian crime?

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

13. who discussed anomie and a specialised society?

  • davis
  • durkheim
  • cloward
  • merton

14. who says working class boys face anomie?

  • parsons
  • cohen
  • merton
  • durkheim

15. who discusses control theory?

  • cloward
  • carlen
  • merton
  • cohen

16. 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

17. who discussed utilitarian and non utilitarian crime?

  • cohen
  • davis
  • cloward
  • ohlin

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

  • parsons
  • davis
  • cloward & ohlin
  • merton

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

  • cloward
  • Ohlin
  • Durkheim
  • cohen

20. who claims men have an innate criminality?

  • white
  • Lombroso and terrero
  • cicourel
  • heidensohn