Deck 12: Crime, Sexuality and Gender

Question 1

In his classic study Crime, Shame and Reintegration (1989), John Braithwaite emphasized the importance of the emotions in the restoration of justice between offenders, victims and the wider community.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Why does the the introduction of psychoanalytical theory into the fear of crime debate offer much potential?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Criminology has much to gain from engaging with this resurgence of interest in the emotions across the humanities and social sciences. Why is this argued?

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

Collison´s (1996) research on masculinities and crimes connects these ideas to three key areas - what are they?

A)Machismo
B)Cultural consumption
C)Aggression
D)Risk-taking
E)Drug use

Question 5

Hollway and Jefferson (2000: 32) draw on three specific unconscious defence mechanisms to explore how threats to the self are managed by these displacing activities - what are they?

A)denial
B)splitting
C)cooperation
D)projection
E)conflict

Question 6

What are the four generally accepted universal human emotions?

A)Happiness
B)Fear
C)Shame
D)Anger
E)Depression

Question 7

Scheff´s work on shame suggests that one of the central features of life is our search for what?

A)Honour
B)Self-belief
C)Status
D)Wealth
E)Position

Question 8

Excitement is not the only emotion involved in so-called hate crime argue Levin and McDevitt, what other emotion seems to be utilized?

A)Fear
B)Resentment
C)Fun
D)Revenge
E)Guilt

Question 9

Contemporary interest in crime and the emotions can usefully be traced back to Stanley Cohen´s study (1967: 17) of mods and rockers which sought to demonstrate how numerous factors combined to produce delinquency through the humiliating ´status frustrations experienced by working-class boys and the alienating differences of class-based value systems.

Question 10

The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 made it a criminal offence to use threatening words or behaviour with the intention of stirring up hatred against any group of people because of their religious beliefs or their lack of religious beliefs. Has this helped or hindered the understanding of this form of crime?