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
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
According to Theory Y, people are passive and resistant to change
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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