Module 10 - Week 11 Quiz

Conflict Theories are interested in...

• Who makes behaviours criminal

• People who come into conflict with the law

• How something gets categorised as criminal.

• Conflict between different legal definitions of criminal behaviour.

Conflict theory asserts that conflict is a fact of life

• True

• False

Conflict theory asserts that laws provide

• Powerful groups the means to control less powerful groups.

• Criminals more opportunities to behave antisocially.

• Powerless groups the means to control powerful groups.

• Control of resources

Marxist theory identifies which two economic classes

• Bourgeoisie (working class)

• Proletariat (working class)

• Proletariat (ruling class)

• Bourgeoisie (ruling class)

According to Marxist Criminology, crime is the product of what?

• Means of production

• Rich stealing from the poor

• A class struggle

• Problem populations

Conflict Theory identifies that control of resources creates power

• False

• True

Critical Theories focus on the features of ________ groups.

Feminist criminology focuses on womens' similar pathways into crime and victimisation as men

• True

• False

The idea that imprisonment does little to change the social conditions leading to crime stems from...

• Marxist Criminology

• Feminist Criminology

• Abolitionist Criminology

• Critical Criminology

Indigenous Criminology recognises that...

• Traditional criminology overlooks the impacts of Indigenous experiences.

• Indigenous Australian commit more crime that non-indigenous Australians

• Race is a social construct.

• Mainstream theories do not capture the unique contexts of FNP