Unit 4: Crime

Question 1

Political Ideology

Answer 1

a political ideology is a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order

Question 2

Social Ideology

Answer 2

Sociologists define ideology as “cultural beliefs that justify particular social arrangements, including patterns of inequality.” Dominant groups use these sets of cultural beliefs and practices to justify the systems of inequality that maintain their group’s social power over non-dominant groups

Question 3

Poverty

Answer 3

the state of being extremely poor the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount

Question 4

Punishment

Answer 4

the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offense

Question 5

Hate Crime

Answer 5

a crime, typically one involving violence, that is motivated by prejudice on the basis of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or similar grounds

Question 6

War on Drugs

Answer 6

The War on Drugs is a phrase used to refer to a government-led initiative that aims to stop illegal drug use, distribution and trade by dramatically increasing prison sentences for both drug dealers and users.

Question 7

Prohibition

Answer 7

the action of forbidding something, especially by law

Prohibition) the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933.

Question 8

Domestic Terrorism

Answer 8

the committing of terrorist acts in the perpetrator’s own country against their fellow citizens

Question 9

Cybercrime

Answer 9

criminal activities carried out by means of computers or the internet.