Crim 249 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

CRIM 249 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2023/2024 Classic Strain/Anomie Theory - ANSWER-Culturally emphasized conventional success goals Unequal opportunities to achieve those goals legally Means deficiency General Strain Theory - ANSWER-Social psychology of strain, stress, and crime/deviance Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT) - ANSWER-Emphasizes the structural imbalance of institutions as a factor weakening societal norms and increasing crime Steve Messner, Richard Rosenfeld Primary P...

crim 249 exam 1 questions & answers 2023/2024 lenses to view crime - ANSWER-normative, legal, medical, psychological, sociological Theory - ANSWER-the role and interrelation of concepts, propositions, hypothesis- must be empirical, testable, falsifiable levels of theory - ANSWER-micro, meso, marco logistical consistency - ANSWER-no circular reasoning, tautology parsimony - ANSWER-occams razor- simple explanations are preferred over complex theories elements of causal logic - AN...

CRIM 249 Exam 2 Questions & Answers 2023/2024 What was Merton trying to explain? At what level is his explanation? - ANSWER-Strain and society's emphasis on money - means to obtain money is not equally distributed and therefore, strain appears, crime may increase as a result --> anomie (macro-level) Anomie - ANSWER-Normlessness, means to attain our goal are not equally distributed What are Merton's modes of adaptation and how do they relate to crime? - ANSWER-Conformity, Innovatio...

CRIM 249 - exam 2 questions & answers 2023/2024 What are the roots of Social Disorganization Theory? - ANSWER-Shaw and McKay - crime comes from environment, not biology, Highest crime areas in Zone II, Population changes, but area crime remains same. What is the Chicago School? - ANSWER-Urban Ecology- Robert Parks and Ernest Burgess. Invasion, Dominance,and Succession-Ethnicities and industries move into and out of areas •Natural Areas and Radial City Growth What community factors did...

CRIM 249 INTRO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024

Crim 249 PSU Final Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Anomie - ANSWER-a cultural condition of normlessness and feeling like the system is rigged and does not work, so people must adapt and work around it. Structural Strain - ANSWER-In Merton's reformulation of Durkheim's functionalist theory, a form of anomie that occurs when a gap exists between society's culturally defined goals and the means society makes available to achieve those goals; relative deprivation causes anomie Rel...

CRIM 249 - EXAM 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024

CRIM 249 Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024 Soft determism - ANSWER-Look for genes/biology interact with environment to increase likeliness of crime around 40%-60% - ANSWER-percent of inherited crime risk? Higher for adults and aggressiveness Low resting heart rate is associated with antisocial behavior. Lower heart rate only predicts crime along men. Poor skin conductance and fear (lower levels of fear(getting caught)= higher levels of crime). Lack of physiological response as measured...

crim 249 exam 1 questions & answers 2023/2024 criminology - ANSWER-scientific study of crime as a social phenomenon deviance - ANSWER-the recognized violation of cultural norms statistical deviance - ANSWER-uncommon or rare characteristics normative deviance - ANSWER-an act is deviant if it violates the prevailing norms in a given setting institutional deviance - ANSWER-When society and its formal organizations are not meeting the needs of its individuals rare deviant - ANSWER-...