Compare and contrast the theoretical contributions of Willem Bonger, Ralf Dahrendorf, and George Vold
What will be an ideal response?
Bonger argued that criminal law serves the will of the dominant class and the legal system discriminates against the poor by defending the actions of the wealthy. Dahrendorf argued that modern society is organized into imperatively coordinated associations—one that has control and one that does not have control. Vold stated that crime can be explained by social conflict because criminal acts are a consequence of direct contact between forces fighting for control.
You might also like to view...
What cannot be said of plea-bargaining?
a. In Common Law countries, a vast majority of criminal cases are settled through plea-bargaining c. Plea-bargaining strengthens the adversarial system c. Many more cases can be processed than could be under a "pure adversarial" system d. The intricacies of the adversarial criminal procedure are largely evaded
Shover, Coffey, and Hobbs's study of telemarketers convicted of federal crimes found that:
a. few had ever attended college. b. as adolescents many had been more interested in money than their siblings. c. most had abandoned lucrative and promising careers for telemarketing fraud. d. most grew up in lower- or working-class families.
Research indicates that juvenile waivers fail at ______.
A. recidivism B. deterrence C. retribution D. disciplinary
Which of the following is one of the major criticisms of official crime data?
a. It fails to control socioeconomic factors that contribute to criminality. b. It underrepresents the effect of violent delinquent crime. c. It is biased by police behavior and arrest practices. d. It negates the impact of chronic delinquent crime.