Criminology unit 5 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Already Passed)
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Criminology unit 5 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Already Passed)
Rational Choice Theory - Answers It assumes that individuals act in their own best interest, carefully weighing the benefits vs the risk
marginalisation - Answers Lack clear goals
Subculture - Answers ...
Criminology unit 5 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions Latest Version 2025 (Already Passed)
Rational Choice Theory - Answers It assumes that individuals act in their own best interest, carefully
weighing the benefits vs the risk
marginalisation - Answers Lack clear goals
Subculture - Answers A group of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences
and situations
relative deprivation - Answers Want what others have
Bourgeoisie - Answers the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people
Proletariat - Answers Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the
means of production
Neo-Marxism - Answers An updated and revived form of Marxism that rejects determinism, the primacy
of economics and the privileged status of the proletariat
Merton's Strain Theory - Answers conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, rebellion
Socialisation and the underclass (Murray) - Answers teaches us right from wrong. The poor are under
socalised so turn to crime
Heidensohn (gender) - Answers Women are treated more harshly than men when convicted as they
have deviated from gender norms
sex role theory - Answers Socialised as children, lacks values associated with delinquency- minor crimes
Hegomonic Masculinity - Answers Men want to be more masculine so turn to crime
Cohen - Answers status frustration
ethnicity and crime - Answers People form subcultures due to marganlisation
Class and Crime - Answers Lower class have a lower opportunity
Durkiem (locality) - Answers Urbanisation due to breakdown of community relationships
Morris (locality) - Answers Crime occurs more in council estates
Right realism (crime prevention) - Answers Situational and environmental crime prevention- broken
window theory, zero tolerance, target hardening
Left realism (crime prevention) - Answers Tackle the root cause, community services, youth groups
Postmodernism (crime prevention) - Answers Surveillance- being watched
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