Exam 3: Theories Part II: Critical, Labeling, Cycle of Violence, Life Course, Pathways, and Masculinity Theories

When addressing girls' and women's agency, feminists often struggle with balancing sexism and ______.

Critical legal studies was dominated by White elite men and criticized by women and people of color in leftist academia who became frustrated with its limited views.

Which of the following trajectory classifications is considered to be the least susceptible to peer pressure?

The progressive legal movement to transform the relationship among race, racism, and power is referred to as ______.

Labeling theory (LT) is concerned with the process by which deviant labels are one only applied.

What approach would a scholar use to examine pathways through the age-differentiated life span?

The basis for conflict theory was drawn from the works of which theorist?

It is inconsistent with feminism to portray girls/women as having no agency or resiliency.

That laws are biased, reflecting the needs of the upper class, and thus enforcement of the laws is inevitably unjust is an assumption of which of the following theories?

According to Daly's (1992) study, women who were in or just out of an intimate relationship with a very violent man and ended up in court for hurting or killing the man are categorized as ______.

Specific life events that are embedded in trajectories and evolve over shorter time spans are referred to as ______.

Designers of critical race theory criticized critical legal theories for using which type of lens?

Chronic fluctuators are more likely to be single and White.

"New criminologists" viewed ______ as the real criminals.

A common criticism of the "new criminology" is that it was ______.

What theory is grounded in Marxism and often referred to as Marxist theory and radical theory?

Which of the following beliefs accepted by mainstream society as myths was identified by critical race theory?

The marriage effect was historically tested solely on ______.

The tenets of pathways theory overlap with many of the tenets from other theories, such as life course, cycle of violence, general strain, and social learning.

Gender entrapment was developed to understand the contradictions and complications of the lives of the African American battered women who commit crimes.