2007CCJ PASS WEEK 1

Which of the following match this description of a type of justice?

".. argue that justice is best achieved through an equal distribution of material goods and opportunities."

• Egalitarian Theories

• Utilitarian Theories

• Distributive Justice

• Rawl's Theory of Justice

Which of the following are critiques of utilitarian theories of justice?

• Ignores inequality deeply embedded in forms of patriarchy

• Fails to provide for rights of individual

• Happiness is subjective

• Fail to account for the varying needs of individuals

The Legal/Formal definition of crime is...

• “Natural” deviance inherent to all societies with a focus on its social functions

• Defined by legislative codes that identify certain behaviours as punishable by the state

• An expansion of Sutherland's notion of social harms to focus on crimes where the state is the offender

• Actions that go against the “common  welfare of society.”

Deterrence implies that people...

• only commit crimes if they can get away with it

• Are socially controlled

• Are rational actors

• Are intelligent

General Deterrence: Focus on use of punishment to deter individuals from specific social actions or even ideologies

• True

• Flase

Which of the following is a principle to Rawl's Theory of Justice?

• Restoring

  of social equity as the only justification for punishment

• Each person has the same claim to equal basic liberties

• Punishment should reflect the

    crime

• The happiness of the many may come at the expense of the few.  

Theories of distributive justice inquire into the benefits and burdens of economic acitivity.

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT consider to be of interest to criminologists?

• Process of Making Laws

• Using the Law

• Reactions to Law Breakers

• Breaking laws

Green Criminologists consider that crime is a 'social harm'

• True

• False

Feminists scholars agree with Rawl's Theory of Justice

• True

• False