Deck 7: Critical Criminology: Power, Peace, and Crime

Question 1

From Bonger's perspective, what is the solution to crime in the United States?

A) Changing the capitalist economic system into a socialist economic system.
B) Financing situational crime prevention programs in poor neighborhoods that are wracked by crime and drug use.
C) The expansion of correctional rehabilitation programs.
D) Passing get tough laws that put all criminals-rich and poor alike-in prison for long periods of time.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Critical/radical/conflict criminologists would argue that the United States has a high crime rate because

A) Welfare robs poor people of their moral character.
B) Compared with other Western industrial nations, the United States has a high degree of economic inequality between the rich and the poor.
C) The ruling class is unwilling to use their tax dollars to build more prisons and lock up criminals.
D) More women in the United States commit crime than in other societies, thus increasing the overall rate of crime in America.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

From Bonger's perspective, the key proximate cause of crime is the mental state of _____.

A) The proletariat.
B) Socialism.
C) Egoism.
D) Peacemaking.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

From Bonger's criminological perspective, the ____ commonly exploit the _____.

A) Proletariat; bourgeoisie.
B) Bourgeoisie; proletariat.
C) Lower proletariat; proletariat.
D) Lower proletariat; bourgeoisie.

Question 5

According to Elliott Currie, the United States has what form of economy?

A) Compassionate capitalism.
B) Keirestu capitalism.
C) Contingent capitalism.
D) Social capitalism.

Question 6

According to Currie, which of the following conditions most breeds crime?

A) Capitalism.
B) Coercion.
C) Socialism.
D) A market society.

Question 7

From Currie's perspective, what is a solution to crime in the United States?

A) Changing the capitalist economic system into a socialist economic system.
B) Financing health care, child care, and job training.
C) The expansion of correctional rehabilitation programs.
D) Passing get tough laws that put all criminals-rich and poor alike-in prison for long periods of time.

Question 8

Based on Colvin's ideas on parenting and crime, which sort of parenting leads to a predisposition for white-collar criminality?

A) Noncoercive, consistent control.
B) Noncoercive, erratic control.
C) Coercive, consistent control.
D) Coercive, erratic.

Question 9

Based on Colvin's ideas on parenting and crime, which sort of parenting leads to a predisposition for chronic involvement in predatory street crimes?

A) Noncoercive, consistent control.
B) Noncoercive, erratic control.
C) Coercive, consistent control.
D) Coercive, erratic.

Question 10

From Quinney's peacemaking perspective, what is the solution to crime in the United States?

A) Changing the capitalist economic system into a communist economic system.
B) Providing funds for health care, child care, and job training.
C) Conflict resolution, mediation, addressing real needs of victims, reintegrating offenders into society, and giving the human needs of all citizens the highest priority.
D) Passing get tough laws that put all criminals-rich and poor alike-in prison for long periods of time

Question 11

Which of the following is true according to Quinney's peacemaking perspective?

A) Crime is greed.
B) Market societies breed crime by destroying livelihoods.
C) Impersonal and interpersonal coercion are at the root of crime.
D) Crime is suffering.

Question 12

Which of the following is true according to Elliott Currie's perspective?

A) Market societies tend to have low inequality.
B) Market societies are associated with high-wage labor.
C) Market societies tend to have strong and effective firearm regulations.
D) Market societies tend to have weak public support systems.

Question 13

According to Colvin, who among the following is most likely to use a coercive parenting style?

A) A parent employed in the secondary labor market.
B) A parent who is a white-collar offender.
C) A voluntarily stay-at-home parent.
D) Well-educated, dual-income couples.

Question 14

According to Colvin, consistent, noncoercive parenting tends to lead to which of the following?

A) High other-directed anger.
B) Low anger.
C) High self-directed anger.
D) Fear.

Question 15

According to Colvin, consistent, coercive parenting tends to lead to which of the following?

A) High other-directed anger.
B) Low anger.
C) Rigid self-control.
D) Low self-control.

Question 16

Critical criminology came into prominence in which period?

A) Late 1880s to early 1890s.
B) Late 1920s to early 1930s.
C) Late 1960s to early 1970s.
D) Late 1980s to early 1990s.

Question 17

Which of the following is true of Elliot Currie's perspective?

A) Salvation of society depends on the moral and spiritual health of individuals.
B) Crime can only be alleviated by workers uniting, revolting, and creating a socialist class.
C) Experiencing coercive control in the presence of social-psychological deficits is the main explanation for crime.
D) The pathway to crime starts with an economic system that exalts individual competition and consumption.

Question 18

Restorative justice as a solution to crime is most consistent with the perspective of which of the following theories?

A) Bonger's conflict theory.
B) Quinney's peacemaking criminology.
C) Marx's conflict theory.
D) Currie's conflict theory.

Question 19

Which of the following is true of Quinney's peacemaking perspective?

A) Without peace, crime is inevitable.
B) Peace can only be found by workers uniting, revolting, and creating a socialist class.
C) Experiencing coercive control in the presence of social-psychological deficits is the main explanation for crime.
D) The pathway to crime starts with an economic system that exalts individual competition and consumption.

Question 20

On whose work was critical criminology developed?

A) Karl Marx.
B) Emile Durkheim.
C) Cesare Lombroso.
D) Cesare Beccaria.

Question 21

What is the solution to reducing crime, according to Bonger's work? How does this solution compare with the crime-reduction strategies implied by Currie's market society theory?

Question 22

Drawing on Elliott Currie's work, what is a market economy? How does it produce conditions conducive to crime? Describe the seven pathways that Currie identifies.

Question 23

How is Currie's market society theory similar to Messner and Rosenfeld's institutional-anomie theory? How do the theories differ?

Question 24

Describe Colvin's four types of control. Describe how these types of control are related to crime.

Question 25

How does Colvin use the idea of coercive control to account for broad macro-level patterns of crime in the United States?

Question 26

What is the source of crime, according to Quinney's peacemaking criminology?

Question 27

Compare and contrast the earlier versus the later work of Quinney. Is it contradictory or transformative? Explain.