Deck 6: Social Harm and Zemiology

Question 1

Which of the following best defines zemiology?

A) A way of defining social harm
B) An academic discipline concerned with the study of social harms
C) A philosophical approach to crime
D) An academic discipline concerned with the study of crime

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following describes social harm, but not a crime (in the UK)?

A) The sale of counterfeit goods
B) Burglary
C) The housing crisis
D) Murder

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Who, of the following, is typically credited with laying the groundwork in the 1940s for the origins of the social harm approach as part of criminology?

A) Pemberton and Hilyard
B) Tombs and Sutherland
C) Edwin Sutherland
D) Hilyard and Tombs

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT one of the interrelated reasons why the concept of crime fails to cover social harms mentioned in this chapter?

A) Crime consists of many 'petty events'
B) Crime has no ontological reality
C) Crime excludes many serious harms
D) Crime describes harmful and deviant behaviour

Question 5

Which of the following is NOT one of Hilyard and Tombs' (2004) typologies of harm?

A) Social harm
B) Psychological harm
C) Financial harm
D) Physical harm

Question 6

Which of the following best describes negative liberty?

A) Freedom to commit crime
B) Freedom from harm
C) Freedom from state control
D) Freedom to cause harm

Question 7

Who of the following defined social harm as constituting the compromising of human flourishing through the systematic denial of access to the basic pre-requisites for such flourishing?

A) Pemberton (2007; 2016)
B) Hillyard and Tombs (2004)
C) Tombs (2018)
D) Yar (2012)

Question 8

Who of the following defined social harm as the inter-subjective experience of being refused recognition with respect to any or all of the dimensions of need; love, rights and esteem?

A) Pemberton (2007; 2016)
B) Hillyard and Tombs (2004)
C) Tombs (2018)
D) Yar (2012)

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of the applicability of the social harm approach within criminology?

A) There is no clear definition of social harm
B) Social harm is largely difficult to measure
C) Social harm includes some criminal harms
D) The concept of social harm is underdeveloped

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT an example of legal social harm?

A) The housing crisis
B) Poverty
C) Burglary
D) Licensed pollution