Lectures 1-3

Front 1

What are the 3 important components of criminology?

Back 1

Making, breaking and reaction of breaking laws.

Front 2

What were some of the key assumptions of Criminologists in the Classical period?

Back 2

Humans are self interested, rational, and able to weigh the cost and benefits of crime.

Front 3

What is the age of Positivism primary focused on?

Back 3

Science is able to identify the causes of crime; criminal actors and not their acts; the need for individualised treatment; to identify causes for crime and to predict and prevent them.

Front 4

What is the difference between single factor reductionism versus multiple factor approaches?

Back 4

Single factor reductionism emphasised how one single factor (such as intelligence) causes crime, whereas multiple factor approaches theorises that the causes of crime can be indentified through multiple factors.

Front 5

What is the difference between the consensus perspective and the conflict perspective?

Back 5

Consensus perspective assumes that there are collectively agreed upon behaviours and that crime is a violation of those norms; whereas the conflict perspective assumes that there is no agreement in society about appropriate ways to behave, and that the most powerful group gets to determine punishment.

Front 6

What is crime for a sociological perspective?

Back 6

Crime is a behaviour that threatens social order.

Front 7

What is deviance?

Back 7

Deviance is a behaviour that elicits a social reaction by violating the standard conduct defined by society.

Front 8

What are the four categories of social norms?

Back 8

Folkways, mores, taboo and laws.

Front 9

What is Administrative Data? What are the limitations?

Back 9

Administrative data is data officially recorded by the courts, police, corrections, and other criminal justice systems. Its limitations include under counting, jurisdictional differences, changing legal and social conditions, and seasonal variation.

Front 10

What is "The Dark Figure" of crime?

Back 10

The dark figure of crime are the hidden crimes, not normally reported or discovered in data.

Front 11

According to the "Crime funnel" model, how many offences out of approximately 1000 are incarcerated and sent to jail.

Back 11

Four.

Front 12

What are the most common types of crime people typically report to the police?

Back 12

Motor vehicle theft, break in, and theft from motor vehicle.

Front 13

What aspects about crime does the media typically overrepresent?

Back 13

Violent crime, children and the elderly as victims, and youth as perpetrators of crime.

Front 14

What is "the silver bullet theory"?

Back 14

The idea that the public are passive recipients, and that silver bullet fires from the media cannon and is then lodged in their minds.

Front 15

What is "filtering theory"?

Back 15

Filtering theory is the idea that the audience is able to choose what they consume and what they will believe.

Front 16

According to Ted Chirios and his colleagues - who are the most susceptible to media portrayal of crime and why?

Back 16

People who watch television - typically middle aged white women. This is because of substitution (the lack of victim experience or reduced victim likelihood), resonance (has victim or higher victim likelihood), vulnerability (less able to defend themselves) and affinity (shares characteristics of more likely media victims).

Front 17

What is a moral panic?

Back 17

An episode, condition, person or group of persons that has been defined as a threat to societal values and interests.

Front 18

What do you need to create a moral panic according to Cohen?

Back 18

A suitable enemy, a suitable victim, and a consensus that the act was not isolated.