ISS 3420 Study Guide - Final Guide: Guilty Men, White-Collar Crime, Juvenile Delinquency
26 Nov 2015
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Non sociological (individual)/consensus: assumes high degree of consensus about social norms and values, and departures mark deviance (classical, positivist and strain theories) Sociological/conflict: society is composed of diverse social groups with different definitions of right and wrong (labelling, critical, feminist, left-realist) Focus on substantive topics, theories, guest speakers and music. Big themes, connect theory to issues/crime we"ve covered think/apply and use specific examples. Example of short answer: choose 1 specific theory from 1 of the following theoretical categories. Only (social structure, social process, social conflict and apply it to a kind of crime. Apply the theory with specific examples (e. g of any legislation and or policy, program, approach) that is a logical outcome of the theory as a way to solve or address the crime. Example of multiple choice:which of the following policy implications are not examples which come from biological theories of crime: capital punishment.
