CRJS 1001 Final Exam Latest Update 2025-2026 Exam 125 Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
- major areas of the discipline of criminology - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. the definition of
- the origins and role of the law
- the social distribution of crime
- the causation of crime
- patterns of criminal behaviour
- societal reactions to crime
of crime and criminals
according to cultural criminologists, what does dangerous knowledge refer to? -
CORRECT ANSWER: a form of knowledge that leaves no concept or idea
unquestioned, including that of criminology itself
according to marxist criminologists what best represents the root of conflict and crime -
CORRECT ANSWER: capitalist and class relations
according to the morality curve, what is the best way to reduce crime rates overall -
CORRECT ANSWER: reduce crime among the elite and powerful
advisor systems - CORRECT ANSWER: disputants sought the counsel of an advisor
-high status men who were settling disputes harmoniously increased their status as advisors
Agamben: Sovereignty and the State of Exception - CORRECT ANSWER: sovereign: a person empowered to declare a state of exception -The suspension of civil liberties and human rights for the sake of social control and national security 1 / 3
-Modern society and citizenship (the social contract) create the conditions in whichsovereign power can return citizens to a state of naked life
agents of social control - CORRECT ANSWER: police, judges etc
antisocial personality disorder - CORRECT ANSWER: -disregard for the rights of others begins at childhood with lying stealing etc -15-25% of the inmate population fit this category -fit well into the corporate world
as part of Bourdieu;s field theory, what concept refers to the various qualities that are
valuable within a specific field - CORRECT ANSWER: capital
Attempting to "fit" women into mainstream theories - CORRECT ANSWER: -The generalizability problem -The gender-ratio problem
best defines role theory as part of the liberal approach to theorizing women's criminality
- CORRECT ANSWER: differences between men and women are seen as due to
gender roles and socialization patterns
Bourdieu's Field Theory - CORRECT ANSWER: -Society is made up of multiple "fields" -Capital (qualities) and habitus (dispositions)ensure the success of certain actors withineach field
Bourdieu's Field Theory: Wacquant's Carceral-Assistential Mesh - CORRECT
ANSWER: -When the left and the right hand of the state come together to punish the poor -E.g., the education institution assists in the disproportionate incarceration of poor and racialized men in the United States
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Canadian centre for justice statistics (CCJS) - CORRECT ANSWER: data on criminal incidents, arrests, charged, convictions and dispositions have improved
career contingency - CORRECT ANSWER: An unintended event, process, or situation
that occurs by chance that can affect the movement of an individual along deviant career.
classical school - CORRECT ANSWER: liberalism and utilitarianism to the justice
system -rights, fairness and due process
community psychology - CORRECT ANSWER: 1. individual level: individual deficits
2. small group level: group functioning deficits
- organizational level: society have not accomplished what they are supposed to
4. institutional or community: social problems are created by institutions
conduct norms represent the agreed upon behaviours within different cultural groups -
CORRECT ANSWER: true
conflict theories - CORRECT ANSWER: questions the assumption that the law reflects the interests of society as a whole -rather the law reflects the interests of the elite
consensus approach - CORRECT ANSWER: law does represent the values and norms
of society
Contemporary feminist criminology - CORRECT ANSWER: -Begins outside mainstream
criminology -Focuses on criminalized women and the feminization of poverty -Accounts for distinctly gendered forms of victimization caused by social conditions in patriarchal societies: the cultural construction of rape
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