Marxism

According to Marxists, who commits crime in Capitalist societies?

• the working classes

• men

• Everyone as capitalism is criminogenic

• young people

Sutherland first coined this term used to describe crimes committed by persons of high status in the course of their occupation...

• blue collar crime

• Corporate crime

• Professional crime

• White collar crime

According to Miller, working class males commit crimes because of the values of their distinctive subculture. This he terms as...?

• Innovation

• Focal Concerns

• Rebellion

• Status Frustration

Name the Interactionist Sociologist who said that young people just drift in and out of crime...

• Miller

• Merton

• Matza

• Cohen

The idea that deviant people push the boundaries of social norms and what they do will change social values at some point in the future is known as .......function of crime?

• boundary maintenance

• warning device

• safety valve

• adaptation and change

According to Snider, the state is unwilling to pass laws which threaten the profits of large corporations. What is corporate crime?

• Crimes committed by the wealthy at work

• Crimes committed by professionals at work

• Crimes committed on behalf of the corporation in order to increase profits

Which mode of adaptation - according to Merton involves rejecting success goals but accepting the legitimate means?

• conformity

• innovation

• ritualism

• retreatism

Althusser discusses the role of the media, religion, education and the family as promoting ruling class ideology. What does he describe this as...?

• ideological state apparatus

• repressive state apparatus

• cultural capital

• social capital

Keeping the working classes under control through the use or threat of the use of force is associated with which concept?

• ideological state apparatus

• formal social control

• informal social control

• repressive state apparatus

Which theory of crime focuses on how agents of social control, e.g. the police, courts and the media label individuals as deviants and this leads to further crime?

• Marxism

• Functionalism

• Subcultural theory

• Interactionism