Study sheet for final exam in criminology



SPRING 05, Study sheet for final exam in criminology

Learning theory:

differential association theory, differential reinforcement, differential organization,

group resocialization programs, GGI

Conflict theory: interpersonal, intergroup/institutional

Labeling theory

stigma, status degradation, societal reactions, secondary deviance, dramatization of evil, essentialism, overcriminalization, moral entrepreneur, rule makers and enforcers, the “child savers,” diversion programs, widening the net, reintegrative shaming model, restorative justice model

feminist, liberation hypothesis, gender role and social class, power control hypothesis,

gender discrimination in families and law: runaways and prostitution

feminist crime theory and female crack use see Women and Crack Cocaine below

Conflict theory: Marxist

the role of the economy in crime and punishment, Rusche and Kerchheimer—recession and punishment, threat hypothesis, judicial anxiety, extra legal factors in sentencing,

Bonger amoral materialism, Quinney’s social reality of crime, crimes of oppression and accommodation, , left realism, critical criminology, peacemaking criminology, newsmaking criminology

Public order crimes

“disorderly” conduct, vice and victimless crime, the drug wars, drugs-crime connection,

effects of drugs on lower class heavy users,

issues associated with legalization, tolerance, and prohibition

Women and Crack Cocaine (see more detailed question sheet on the website)

differences in male and female drug use, differences in present and past female involvement in drugs, the popularity of crack, differences between street prostitutes and crack house prostitutes, criminal involvement of female crack users, consequences and treatment issues for female drug users

Organized Crime and African American Organized Crime

main elements of organized crime, main activities of o.c., theories explaining o.c. crime, different types of crime organizations and internal structures, why Italian mafia grew & dominated, African American organized crime beginnings, differences from Italian mafia, social and economic foundations of black o.c, key historical events, relationship with the Italian mafia, key activities of black o.c., Jamaican posses—similarities and differences with other o.c., drug policy and its effects on drug use and o.c., differences between crack and heroin trade by black o.c., urbicide and its role in black o.c., gangs—bloods, crips, vice lords, jungle boys, El Rukns, structure of community & o.c;

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