Chapter 10 Flashcards
___ is a perspective that believes the causes of crime are rooted in social conditions that favour the wealthy and the politically well-organized while disempowering the less fortunate.
radical criminology
Who created Radical criminology?
William chambliss or Marx
What is this: a group of community members who actively assist justice authorities by participating in discussions about available sentencing options and plans to reintegrate the offender back into the community
Circle Sentencing conferences
What is an act of killing someone out of mercy, because they suffer from severe and unbearable pain? Killing someone out of love
compassionate homicide
Who killed his disabled daughter, Tracy, in 1993, who suffered from cerebral palsy and was in constant pain (compassionate homicide)
Robert Latimer
what is acquired through personal effort or change over the course of one’s life and include such things as level of education, income, place of residence, and profession
achieved characteristics
What is a perspective that holds that crime-control agencies and the citizens they serve should work together to alleviate social problems and human suffering and thus reduce crime? (also called compassionate criminology)
Peacemaking Criminology
what is this: Groups composed of Volunteers from the community who focus on restorative measures such as restitution, reparation, mediation, and victim involvement
Community Sentencing
What is this: also called reparative justice, a perspective that stresses solutions and restoration rather than imprisonment, punishment, and neglect of victims, Crime is an act against another person or community
Restorative justice
Who popularized peacemaking criminology, restated the problem of crime control from one of how to stop crime to one of how to make peace within society and between people and justice agencies
Harold Pepinsky
Who made the five strands of feminism, liberal feminism, radical feminism, Marxist Feminism, socialist feminism, and postmodern feminism
Freda Adler
Which feminism is this: A feminist perspective in criminology that sees gender-role socialization as the primary source of women’s oppression
Liberal Feminism
Which feminism is this: a perspective that sees gender-role socialization as the primary source of women’s oppression.
Radical feminism
Which feminism is this: A perspective in feminist criminology that sees the oppression of women as caused by their subordinate class status within capitalist societies
Marxist feminism
Which feminism is this: A perspective in modern criminology that questions the social construction of concepts typically used in discussions of crime and justice.
Postmodern feminism
