What is a criminal career? How does a criminal career differ from and how is it similar to a legitimate career? What contingencies influence the development of criminal careers? What is the zigzag path followed by some offenders?
What is sentence disparity? To what extent does it characterize the sentencing of blacks in capital and noncapital crimes? To what extent does it exist for members of different social classes? To what extent does it exist for males and females?
Which influences attitudes toward capital punishment more, a desire to deter murder or a desire for retribution? Does the death penalty deter murder? What are reintegrative shaming and restorative justice? What measures would ease the reintegration of offenders into society?
What kinds of crime statistics are used by criminologists? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each measure of crime? What kinds of questions about crime does each measure address most usefully? What are the eight Part I crimes in the FBIs Uniform Crime Report? Why does the FBI give these offenses so much attention? How does the FBIs National Incident-Based Reporting System differ from […]
How would the three theoretical perspectives examined in this chapterdifferential association theory, the labeling perspective, and rewardrisk modelsexplain variations in crime rates by country, region, size of community, time, sex, age, race and ethnicity, immigrant status, and social class?
ln your own words, explain the folJowing passage: “A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. ln ch.is regard, few of us question the contemporary construction of copyright.” How might it be possible that ideas which seem to require no defense […]
Siebt:rt’s essay ends with two acts of violence: a caretaker killed by an elephant in captivity, and a villager killed and buried by an elephant herd. Why does he structure the piece in thjs way? S.ince he also began by desc1ibing violence, has Siebert come fi1II circle? Or has he put hjs readers in a better position to understand the viokncc?
A rock band was about to begin a grueling four-month world tour. The bands manager telephoned a massage therapist and said that he would like to reward the band for all their hard work on the tour by booking massages for all of the band members immediately after the last show in the tour. The therapist agreed to perform the massages at a deeply discounted […]
At first glance, Robert Thunnan’s claim that we have no permanent or essential self may seem like sheer nonsense, since, clearly, each of us is a self or has one. But does “the self,” as we call it, actually represent a selforganizing system., more like an ant colony than a sing.le ant, or more ljke a city than a single neighborhood? As you work through […]
Why does Nafisi spend so much time describing the members of her reading group? What different motives may have brought these readers to Nafisi’s apartment? We might noimalJy thjnk of reading as a solita1y activity, unJjke watching movies or sports; why was it so impo1tant for the women to meet together as a group?
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