CJ 421 Ch. 4/5 – Flashcards
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Example of culture conflict, the clash of values between American laws and
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an ethiopian ritual
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Defensible space is a concept in environmental design theory
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true
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W.I. Thomas developed a term that could be used to explain how a person may receive inappropriate cues from different groups and thus be seen as deviant
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Definition of the situation
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conflict between a subculture and a larger culture within which it resides
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Secondary culture conflict
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the chicago school produced chiefly microtheories
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true
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the chicago school purported that behavior is shaped by
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social factors
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best reflects Shaw and McKay's findings on city areas
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rates of delinquency, tuberculosis and infant mortality decrease as you move away from the central buisness district
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process by which social disorganization affects juveniles and leads to delinquency is known as
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Symbolic Interactionism
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Culture conflict theory was developed primarily by
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Thorsten Sellin
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concept of community crime careers looks at the number of career offenders living in each concentric zone of the city
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false
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Chicago school theorists were consensus theorists at heart
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true
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Sampson's research on current immigrant communities supports the idea that predominantly immigrant areas have higher crime rates, particularly violent crime
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false
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Sutherland borrowed three major theories from the Chicago School
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cultural transmission, symbolic interactionism, culture conflict
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Differential association is what type of theory?
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positivist
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sutherland's theory was heavily influenced by his upbringing, which took place in the _____ part of the country
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midwestern
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Dan Glaser extended sutherland's work with his own theory of
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Differential Identification
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Sutherland viewed criminals as following culturally approved behavior that was disapproved by the larger society
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true
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Edwin Sutherland is known as the person who coined the phrase
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White Collar Crime
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According to Sutherland, differential associations may vary according to each of the following except
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Relativity
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Sutherland did not believe that certain locations and people were more crime prone than others
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True
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Sutherland took into account each of the following except
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individual responses to societal reaction vary in sensitivity and vulnerability
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primary concept of Sutherland's theory of differential association is an excess of definitions conducive to violation of law
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true
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Two of Sutherland's books
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Principles of Criminology and The Professional Theif
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Sutherland attempted to explain both individual criminal behavior and variations in group rates of crime
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Cressey responded to criticisms that differential association did not explain crimes of passion or compulsive crimes with his work combining
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Role Theory and Symbolic Interaction
