Sociology crime and deviance

Question 1

What is situational crime prevention?

Answer 1

refers to how, in certain situations, changes can be made to prevent criminal acts.

Question 2

What does Chaiken et al say?

Answer 2

SCP doesn’t reduce crime; it just moves it to a different area. (displacement).

Question 3

Who talks about the broken window theory?

Answer 3

Wilson and Kelling.

Question 4

What is environmental crime prevention?

Answer 4

ECP - the idea that physical signs of disorder or crime can attract crime.

Question 5

What do left realist argue?

Answer 5

Lowering crime well should be done by improved ed and jobs for the dis groups.

Question 6

What does Hans Von Hentig argue?

Answer 6

13 characteristics that make someone more prone to be a victim.

Question 7

What did Wolfgang find?

Answer 7

26% of 588 homocides in America involved victim precipitation.

Question 8

What is victim precipitation?

Answer 8

This is when the victim triggers the acts leading to a murder.

Question 9

What is fear of victimisation ?

Answer 9

This is when crime may create fear of becoming a victim.

Question 10

Give examples of corporate crimes.

Answer 10

Financial crimes, crimes against consumers, crimes against the environment.

Question 11

What did KPMG do?

Answer 11

Payed a £456m for its role in tax fraud.

Question 12

What did Box suggest ? (Merton)

Answer 12

If a company can’t get goals by legal means, they may employ illegal ones instead.

Question 13

What do Realist think ?

Answer 13

They think that crime is a real problem that needs to be tackled.

Question 14

Define Left Realist ?

Answer 14

Are socialists that favour quite different policies for reducing crime.

Question 15

Define Right Realist?

Answer 15

They agree with a lack of depedency on the welfare state and liked prison and death P.

Question 16

What view do Right Realist oppose?

Answer 16

Marxist?

Question 17

Why do Right Realist oppose Marxist views?

Answer 17

Because the old are poor and have a low crime rate

Question 18

What is an evaluation to relative deprivation being the reason for crime ?

Answer 18

In the 1930s Poverty was rife, yet crime rates were low.

Question 19

What is Left Realist 3 related causes of crime?

Answer 19

Marginalisation, Subculture and Realive Depravation.

Question 20

Who talked about relative deprivation?

Answer 20

Runciman.

Question 21

What is relative deprivation?

Answer 21

It’s when someone compares self to others and feel deprived or with their exp.

Question 22

What is subculture and give a type (LR)

Answer 22

A group’s solution to RD. Theodicy of privillage - an expla for their disadvantage.

Question 23

What is a subculture?

Answer 23

the way of life, customs, and ideas of a GOP within a society that is diff from rest society.

Question 24

1 official statistics. (Gender Pattern).

Answer 24

Four out of five convicted offenders in EG and Wales are male. By the age of 40, 9.

Question 25

1. Official Statistics. (Gender Pattern).

Answer 25

By the age of 40, 9% of females have a criminal convictionas against 32% of males.

Question 26

Give a female statistic.

Answer 26

More females were convicted of property offences than males (except burglary).

Question 27

2 examples that can justify C Thesis.

Answer 27

WM more likely to go out on bail than men, 1in5 receive prison for Shoplifting.

Question 28

1 Example that can justify C Thesis.

Answer 28

Women on average receive shorter prison sentences.

Question 29

Why don't male crimes get reported?

Answer 29

Yearshire found that women typically report DV after 35 assaults.

Question 30

Some evidence against the chivalry thesis.

Answer 30

David, men and women are more or less the same NO. in the offender statistics.

Question 31

Why may the statistics be the same?

Answer 31

Because men may be more aquainted with crimes whereas women may not.

Question 32

What did Conen and Jock Young note?

Answer 32

News is not found its manufactured.

Question 33

What do Dobash and Dobash show ? (Violence).

Answer 33

Many violent attacks result from mens dissatisfaction duty peformance from wife.

Question 34

What is bedroom culture ?

Answer 34

When girls socialise at home rather than public spaces.

Question 35

What 2 deals are women generally led to conform through ? (class deal).

Answer 35

Class deal - women who work will be offered material rewards, decent livng..

Question 36

What 2 deals are women generally led to conform through ? (the gender deal).

Answer 36

Women promised mat+emo rewards by Pa i through family life by conf to domestic role

Question 37

What did Gerbener find?

Answer 37

Heavy TV watchers, higher lvls of fear crime