Deck 9: Cultural Criminology: An Introduction

Question 1

Which of the following best describes what cultural criminology is?

A) An evolving analytical perspective concerned with crime mapping and the effectiveness of contemporary criminal justice initiatives
B) An evolving theory concerned with emotion, deviance and punishment
C) An evolving analytical perspective concerned with meaning power and existential accounts of crime, punishment and control
D) An evolving theory concerned with the biosocial causes of crime and criminal justice responses too this

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What is the term used to describe the way in which economic and cultural globalisation is serving to reshape personal identities, destabilise social values and break culture away from locality?

A) Deviant Leisure
B) Late Modernity
C) Ontological Insecurity
D) Neoliberalism

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which term is often used to describe the control-oriented neoliberal approaches to governance?

A) Late modern culture of risk management
B) New crime control
C) Risk management
D) The late modern culture of control

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What does the term 'new military urbanism' refer to?

A) The use of new military technology among criminals
B) The normalisation of military personnel in urban areas
C) The normalised use of military tactics and surveillance technology in everyday crime control
D) The use of the military for petty crime control

Question 5

According to cultural criminologists, how have neoliberal principles of managerialism affected criminology as a discipline?

A) Through frequent monitoring and research funding opportunities tethered to orthodox criminal justice outcomes
B) Through a lack of funding for research surrounding crime and criminal justice
C) Through crime and criminality being so strictly surveillance and controlled that it is difficult to study
D) Criminology has not been subject to these effects

Question 6

What factors are the main focus of study in cultural criminology with regard to the aetiology of crime, deviance and punishment?

A) Time and place
B) Emotion and affect
C) Monetary motivations
D) Cost-benefit analyses

Question 7

What is meant by the term 'edgework' in cultural criminology?

A) A response to late modernity, consisting of risk-taking activities exclusively participated in by young men
B) A response to late modernity, consisting of acts of voluntary, and potentially illicit, risk-taking
C) A response to late modernity, consisting of acts of involuntary risk-taking behaviours encouraged by the state
D) A response to late modernity, consisting of acts of voluntary legal risk-taking

Question 8

What methodological approach is most associated with cultural criminology research?

A) Content analysis
B) Quantitative research
C) Survey methodologies
D) Ethnographic research

Question 9

What of the following is the main criticism of cultural criminology?

A) That it is overly focused on culture, and does not consider individual experiences with crime and deviance
B) That it does not consider the role of social class and capitalism in shaping crime and deviancy
C) That it over-emphasises individual subjectivity at the expense of shared elements of culture, creating a confused understanding of the concept of culture
D) That its concern with emotion and affect is unimportant and cannot contribute to criminological knowledge in any way

Question 10

The field of 'deviant leisure' is concerned with:

A) Expanding the concept of deviance beyond laws and norms to include activities that have the potential to cause harm through their engagement in cultural values and consumerism
B) Focusing on how deviant activities and sensibilities and be influenced by and create positive emotions
C) Expanding the concept of deviance beyond laws to consider activities and subjectivities outside accept social and cultural norms
D) Focusing on deviant activities outside the law and social norms that do not have the potential to cause harm