Deck 7: Crime, Social Theory and Social Change

Question 1

Young sees crime as the defining feature of modern societies.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Why has human rights become central to criminology?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

The criminologists David Garland and Richard Sparks (2000) have succinctly described the ´coming of late modernity´ - what then are the new approaches needed for criminology?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

The sociologist Manuel Castells (1998: ch. 3) has written about the ´global criminal economy´ and, following the United Nations Conference on Transnational Crime in 1994, identified at least six main forms it is taking across the world. Which three are listed here?

A)Arms trafficking
B)Counterfeit goods
C)Identity theft
D)Smuggling of migrants
E)Money laundering

Question 5

In his book The Exclusive Society (1999a) Young explores three kinds of division - which are they?

A)Exclusion from the labour market
B)Exclusion from civil society
C)Exclusion from cultural engagement
D)Seduction from consumerism
E)Expansion of criminal justice system

Question 6

Who famously wrote a book-length obituary for the discipline of criminology?

A)Michel Foucault
B)Jock Young
C)Colin Sumner
D)Stuart Hall
E)Tim Newburn

Question 7

Young argues that in the USA the prison population had risen to what?

A)1.2million
B)1.8 million
C)2.2 million
D)2.5 million
E)3.8 million

Question 8

How many ´configurations brought into being by the confluence of a number of interlinked developments´ do Garland and Sparks (2000: 199) argue have transformed modern society?

A)3
B)4
C)5
D)6
E)7

Question 9

For Cobe, Ameena and Eddie, being an Interrupter is about more than just stopping fights; it is about interrupting the status quo and making positive differences in their community.

Question 10

The basic arguments of postmodernism emphasize that the search for a cause of the criminal, the search for general theories of crime, the look for generalities are indeed searches for grand meta-narratives that now have had their day.

Question 11

What do we mean by a risk society?