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Criminology - Exam 2 Questions and Answers
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Criminology - Exam 2 Questions andAnswers
How does labeling occur according to Edwin Lemert? - Answer-Primary deviance
detected -> labeling -> Alienated -> Take on the label -> Secondary Deviance occurs
- Individuals that are labeled as criminals tend to commit more criminal acts - labeling
labeled as a theif
How are social control/bond theories different from social learning theories? - Answer-
Social control theories - What stops us from being deviant?
- Developing controls
Social bond theories (Hirschi)- Developing bonds with your children
- Establish a good bond to have a strong family
Social learning theories - who was hanging around, the nature of the crime, what
caused the crime
Explain the "good child in a bad neighborhood" ? - Answer-Emphasis on inner
containment
- no matter what pushes and pulls we have, if inner containment developed delinquency
likely will not occur
- looking glass self (Cooley)
- Ecology Fallacy
Explain what is meant by "The social construction of crime"? - Answer-Focus of
explaining crime should be on the individual
- always focused on the person community the crime
Laws are socially constructed
- focus should be on the system reaction to violations of the law and who creates laws.
How does Merton define strain? - Answer-Having money and being able to provide for
your family and being able to live comfortably - "the American dream"
- 'institutionalized means"
*strain is the strain between dreams and means*
What is meant by the "Irony of state intervention"? - Answer-The state in its effort to
respond or intervene in crime creates the crime problem
What did Frank Tannenbaum mean by the "dramatization of evil"? - Answer-Foundation
of reaction theory
- many people (mainly children) are brought into the system for bad behavior
- Brought children in the system to show them their future if they keep committing crime
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