Exam 6: Critical Theories, Life-Course, and Integrated Theories

In Marxist theory, this is the belief that the arrangement of some people owning of the means of production and some people working for the owners is legitimate.

It is possible that a single theory could encompass the entire range of delinquent behavior.

These theorists use allegories, storytelling, and imagined dialogues to illustrate important concepts.

According to Sampson and Laub, for adolescents, social controls and turning points are related to _____ and _____.

Marx divides society into two parts, the _____, who control and own the means of production, and the _____, the workers who are exploited by this economic system.

What is the primary issue that life-course theories examine in relationship to crime?

Which is not a level in the peacemaking pyramid?

Offenders most often victimize those in the upper classes.

Age is a poor variable with which to conduct research because it's not collected in a consistent manner.

We use this term to include types of explanations that are sometimes called conflict, Marxist, or radical.

There are more _____ than _____, and the group may include nearly every juvenile.

According to _____, our concepts of justice, law, fairness, responsibility, and authority are all affected by the context in which we live and aren't absolute.

An additional function of Thornberry's interactional theory is his attempt to specify how this might change for the individual over the life course.

In considering how individuals bond to conventional society, Sampson and Laub use Hirschi's _____ theory of delinquency.

According to Arrigo, postmodern criminology has three key issues. Which is not one of these?

Moffitt specified two types of life-course offenders who engage in antisocial behavior in distinctly different patterns: _____.

Elliott states that middle-class delinquents suffer from a very similar type of strain as lower-class delinquents.

According to Elliott, this theory is not enough to explain delinquency and must be combined with social control and social learning theories.

The creation of a more equitable society is not a solution to crime, according to critical theories.

Which is not one of Cullen and Agnew's central themes of critical theories that help to differentiate them from other types of sociological theories of crime and delinquency?