Human Rights - Answer the minimum conditions required for a person to live a dignified
life.
Among the rights set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are the
-right to life, liberty, and security of the person
-right to be free of torture and other forms of cruel and degrading puni...
Human Rights - Answer the minimum conditions required for a person to live a dignified
life.
Among the rights set out by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are the
-right to life, liberty, and security of the person
-right to be free of torture and other forms of cruel and degrading punishment
-right to equality before the law
-right to the basic necessities of life
3 Dimensions of Seriousness - Answer 1. degree of consensus that an act is wrong
2. severity of the society's response to the act.
3. assessment of the degree of harm of the act
Hagan's Varieties of Deviance - Answer Three Dimensions:
1. Severity of Societal Response
2. Evaluation of Social Harm
3. Agreement About the Norm
,Social Diversions - Answer minor acts of deviance that is generally perceived as
relatively harmless and that evokes at most, a mild societal reaction such as amusement
or disdain
Social Deviations - Answer noncriminal departures from norms that are nonetheless
subject to official control; some members of the public regard them somewhat harmful,
whereas other members of the public do not
Conflict Crimes - Answer illegal deviant acts that many people consider harmful to
society, however, many people think they are not harmful; they are punishable by the
state
Consensus Crimes - Answer illegal acts that nearly all people agree are bad and harm
society greatly; the state inflicts severe punishment for consensus crimes
Consensus Theory - Answer laws represent the agreement of most of the people in
society that certain acts should be prohibited by the criminal law
Value - Answer collective idea about what is right or wrong, good or bad, and desirable
or undesirable in a particular culture
The Conflict Approach - Answer 1. Class Conflict Theory
2. Group Conflict Theory
Class Conflict Theory - Answer laws are passed by members of the ruling class in order
to maintain their privileged position by keeping the common people under control
,Group Conflict Theory - Answer theory that attempts to explain certain types of criminal
behaviour as resulting from a conflict between the interests of divergent groups
Green Criminology - Answer causes and consequences of environmental destruction
Terrorism - Answer illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective by targeting
innocent people
State - Answer As defined by Max Weber (1864- 1920), the state is an institution that
claims the exclusive right to the legitimate exercise of force in a given territory through
the use of police to enforce laws or the army to maintain civil stability. While there have
been stateless societies, most complex societies have state systems of formal
government and administrative bureaucracies.
Mode of Production - Answer The dominant way of organizing the creation of products
and services for consumption in a society. Historically, the mode of production has
evolved from subsistence-based in hunting and gathering societies to commodity based
in industrial capitalist societies.
Class - Answer A concept advanced by Karl Marx (1818-1883) to describe a social group's
relationship to what is produced in a given mode of production. Examples discussed
here include the merchant class during the transition to capitalism, the bourgeois class
during the Industrial Revolution, and the elite class in contemporary capitalism.
Kinship - Answer Social relationships that stem from belonging to the same family,
lineage, or cultural group.
Ideal Type - Answer Theoretical construct abstracted from experience that brings
together observed characteristics in different contexts to generalize for analytic
purposes. Empirical observations never entirely match the conceptual ideal, which
instead can only be used as a standard for making higher-order observations.
, The Sand Brothers - Answer The Sand brothers and Laurie Bell staged a crime spree
across Alberta and Saskatchewan before Strongquill and his partner pulled them over
during a routine traffic stop on Dec. 21, 2001. Danny Sand was killed by a police sniper
at a rural Saskatchewan motel 14 hours after Strongquill was shot.
Conrad Black - Answer In the spring of 2007, Conrad Black and several co-accused faced
charges in the United States relating to the fraudulent acquisition of funds that should
have gone to shareholders of Hollinger International.
Aaron Driver - Answer On 10 August 2016, the FBI reported to the RCMP that they had
seen a martyrdom video that indicated someone was planning an imminent suicide
attack in Canada. The RCMP arrived just as he was getting into a taxi with a bomb on his
way to a shopping mall in downtown London, Ontario. When the police arrived, Driver
detonated a bomb in the taxi. It did not fully detonate, and an injured Driver was able to
get out of the taxi. He was subsequently shot to death by the police.
Criminology - Answer The scientific study of the extent, nature, causes, and
management or control of criminal behavior.
Why Should We Study Crime? - Answer 1. learn more about all aspects of our social lives
2. we need to understand crime before we can reduce it
3. crime directly or indirectly affects all of us
6 Areas of the Discipline of Criminology - Answer 1. Defining Crime & Criminals
2. Origins and Role of the Law
3. Social Distribution of Crime
4. Causation of Crime
5. Patterns of Criminal Behaviour
6. Societal Reactions to Crime
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