Question 1

Citizens in the West are increasingly made aware of their risks for all manner of calamity and are taking steps to remedy these seemingly inevitable ends.

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Many people in the West are becoming more conscious of potential risks and are taking measures to minimize them.

Question 2

Evidence suggests that young people find risk taking to be particularly alluring.

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Many studies have shown that the adolescent brain is particularly drawn to novelty and reward, which can lead to increased risk-taking behaviors.

Question 3

Research carried out by cultural criminologists helps to account for the emotional and visceral elements of crime and deviance.

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Cultural criminologists study how culture, as well as emotions and feelings, influence criminal behavior and how people perceive and react to crime. Therefore, their research helps to explain the emotional and visceral elements of crime and deviance.

Question 4

Maggie O'Neill uses a method called "ethno-mimesis" which is used to capture the complexity of lived reality, through art for example.

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Ethno-mimesis is a method used by Maggie O'Neill to represent and reflect the complexity of lived reality through art. It involves a process of observing, interpreting, and re-enacting everyday life experiences to create something meaningful and authentic.

Question 5

The Indigenous population today is much older than the Canadian average.

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The Indigenous population in Canada is generally younger than the non-Indigenous population, with a higher proportion of children and youth and a lower proportion of elderly.

Question 6

The term risk refers to the calculated probability of an event, action, or a circumstance occurring.

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This is the correct definition of risk.

Question 7

Within the risk-need-responsivity model, the responsivity principle relies on cognitive, behavioural learning, taking into account biosocial factors, like gender, race, learning style and personality.

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The statement accurately describes the responsivity principle within the risk-need-responsivity model.

Question 8

According to Minaker and Hogeveen, what is missing from most newspaper headlines about "troubling kids" who commit crimes?

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Question 9

What do feminist scholarship and critical criminology have in common?

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Question 10

What is the aim of "social justice praxis"?

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Question 11

What kinds of questions do critical criminologists ask about how meaningful changes can be made to improve the life chances of youth people? What do criminologists hope will be the outcome of addressing these questions?

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Question 12

What is YRAP and why is it unique?

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Question 13

Why is it problematic to use recidivism rates as a measure of the effectiveness of youth justice programs like YRAP?

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Question 14

What is the underlying meaning of the statement that critical criminology seeks "to take the system to task rather than tinker with its parts"?

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Question 15

What do Minaker and Hogeveen argue regarding the intergenerational impact of residential schools?

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Question 16

What examples are used in the chapter to support the argument that social space is often allocated along class lines? How does this contribute to the more frequent criminalization of marginalized people including youth?

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Question 17

What is Derrida's philosophy of deconstruction concerned with?

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Question 18

What does Derrida's concept of trace mean?

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Question 19

What do Minaker and Hogeveen mean by "a politics of hospitality"?

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Question 20

Why do Minaker and Hogeveen argue that Canada's youth justice system might better instead be viewed as an instrument of vengeance?

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Quiz 9: Critical Criminology and Youth Justice in the Risk Society: Issues of Power and Justice