Deck 6: Radicalizing Traditions: Marxism, Feminism and Foucault

Question 1

Edwards argues that ´Female defendants are processed in accordance with the crimes which they have committed and the extent to which the commission of the act and its nature deviate from men´s behaviour´ (1984: 213)

Answer 1

False

Question 2

What was the influence of the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (BCCCS)?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

For a short while during much of the late 1960s and the 1970s, labelling theory became the dominant sociological theory of crime - why is this no longer the case?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Gouldner criticized Becker´s partisan sociology and essentially described it as …. which of the following?

A)Glib
B)Insightful
C)Cool
D)Evidence free
E)Zookeeping

Question 5

Broadly, we can suggest three major contributions of the feminist approach - which of these are they?

A)as a means to explore hidden crime
B)as a way of highlighting non-criminal behaviour
C)as a critique of existing malestream criminology
D)as a perspective to suggest new areas of study
E)as a way of bringing gender to the forefront

Question 6

For the new criminologists the causes of crime are to be found outside the individual, in the social structure, that is, in the ´inequalities of …´ (Taylor et al., 1975: 281) What are these?

A)Wealth and power
B)Health and well-being
C)Work andleisure
D)Property and life chances
E)Relationships and family

Question 7

Richard Collier notes, ´most crimes would remain unimaginable without the presence of´ - what?

A)Offenders
B)Witnesses
C)Responsible adult
D)Men
E)Women

Question 8

Much feminist criminology work has focused around the exposure of ´double standards´, sometimes related to notions of a ´code´ of what?

A)Chauvinism
B)Misogyny
C)Sexism
D)Corruption
E)Chivalry

Question 9

For Foucault, power is everywhere and works its way through discourses - bodies of ideas and language, often backed up by institutions.

Question 10

If, as conflict theory suggests, economic disadvantage is a primary cause of crime, why do women (whose economic position is, in general, much worse than that of men) commit far fewer crimes than men do?