What are the policy implications associated with labeling theory, conflict theory, feminist theory, and radical theory? What are the basic assumptions about crime and how would each policy address the crime problem? Are the policies pragmatic? Why or why not?

What will be an ideal response?


Labeling theory: rather than assuming that criminal behavior causes societal reaction, it posits that societal reaction causes criminal behavior.

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How individual criminal activity is acquired, evoked, maintained, and modified is a focus of ________ criminology

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Ethics includes the concept that all people should be concerned with

A. values, norms of conduct, ethics, morals, and character B. valuables, norms of conduct, ethics, morals, and character C. values, normal conduct, ethics, morals, and character D. values, conductors, ethics, morals, and character

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According to Theory Y, people are passive and resistant to change

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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According to Schmid, terrorism is a __________? that is, terrorism is defined by different people within vacillating social and political realities

a. military concept b. social context c. social construct d. truth construct

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