Final Exam
Kenneth Moyer
University of Texas at Arlington
CRCJ5350
Seokjin Jeong, Ph.D.
December 3, 2014
Final Exam
Question 1: Do you think Labeling theory is one to use in creating a prevention/intervention gang program targeted towards females? Why or Why not? What other theory would you suggest? (State the major assumptions, concepts, and propositions) Although there are many points within labeling theory that would be beneficial to creating a prevention/intervention gang program targeted towards females, a theory that better explains gangs would be differential association theory. Labeling theory in my opinion focuses more on defining what is considered criminal behavior from a societal perspective and how people are …show more content…
In terms of creating a prevention/intervention gang program that focuses on females, differential association theory offers more since the main point of the theory is that criminal and noncriminal behavior are learned through social interactions. Creating a program that focuses on preventing the social interaction that favors learning criminal behavior and instead replacing it with a positive interaction that promotes noncriminal behavior. This, in my opinion, will be more effective than trying prevent a negative self-image since one, a person normally does not identify themselves as deviant and second, in order for a person to be labelled a deviant, society has to determine that their behavior is in fact …show more content…
In model 1, fear of crime results from people’s perceptions of their own physical and ecological vulnerability. In model 2, fear of crime results when residents believe that informal social control has broken down and that people who live in the area do not care about their neighborhood. In model 3, fear of crime results when residents perceive low cohesion and high levels of disorder in their neighborhood. In model 4, fear of crime results from living in a place where people are culturally different from oneself. In so doing, we compare general fear of crime to specific fear of gangs to delineate whether the same factors influence each or whether different fears are the product of different factors. The results indicate that while many of the factors that influence fear of crime and fear of gangs are similar, there are significant differences in the magnitude in which these factors influence our measures of fear (Katz et al.,
Kenneth Moyer
University of Texas at Arlington
CRCJ5350
Seokjin Jeong, Ph.D.
December 3, 2014
Final Exam
Question 1: Do you think Labeling theory is one to use in creating a prevention/intervention gang program targeted towards females? Why or Why not? What other theory would you suggest? (State the major assumptions, concepts, and propositions) Although there are many points within labeling theory that would be beneficial to creating a prevention/intervention gang program targeted towards females, a theory that better explains gangs would be differential association theory. Labeling theory in my opinion focuses more on defining what is considered criminal behavior from a societal perspective and how people are …show more content…
In terms of creating a prevention/intervention gang program that focuses on females, differential association theory offers more since the main point of the theory is that criminal and noncriminal behavior are learned through social interactions. Creating a program that focuses on preventing the social interaction that favors learning criminal behavior and instead replacing it with a positive interaction that promotes noncriminal behavior. This, in my opinion, will be more effective than trying prevent a negative self-image since one, a person normally does not identify themselves as deviant and second, in order for a person to be labelled a deviant, society has to determine that their behavior is in fact …show more content…
In model 1, fear of crime results from people’s perceptions of their own physical and ecological vulnerability. In model 2, fear of crime results when residents believe that informal social control has broken down and that people who live in the area do not care about their neighborhood. In model 3, fear of crime results when residents perceive low cohesion and high levels of disorder in their neighborhood. In model 4, fear of crime results from living in a place where people are culturally different from oneself. In so doing, we compare general fear of crime to specific fear of gangs to delineate whether the same factors influence each or whether different fears are the product of different factors. The results indicate that while many of the factors that influence fear of crime and fear of gangs are similar, there are significant differences in the magnitude in which these factors influence our measures of fear (Katz et al.,