DSC CH 10 Critical Theories Of Deviance

Question 1

Critical race theory:

Answer 1

a theoretical perspective that examines the use of law, the legal order, and institutions in maintaining White privilege and supremacy.

Question 2

Feminist criminology:

Answer 2

a theoretical perspective that defines gender (and sometimes race and social class) as a source of social inequality, group conflict, and social problems.

Question 3

Human trafficking

Answer 3

the illegal movement of people, usually for the purposes of forced labor or sexual exploitation.

Question 4

Liberal feminism:

Answer 4

focuses on gender role socialization and the roles that women are socialized into.

Question 5

Marxist feminism:

Answer 5

focuses on explaining the oppression of women through capitalism and the capitalist system.

Question 6

Peacemaking criminology:

Answer 6

a theoretical perspective focused on the belief that there must be a new way of seeing and organizing the world around compassion, sympathy, and understanding.

Question 7

Postmodern feminism:

Answer 7

questions the idea of a single “truth” or way of knowing and understanding.

Question 8

Radical feminism:

Answer 8

focuses on the sexual control of women, seeing their oppression as emerging from a social order dominated by men.

Question 9

Socialist feminism:

Answer 9

focuses on structural differences, especially those we find in the capitalist modes of production.