For SOCI 288 FINAL EXAM REVIEW
Until this coming Tuesday, I will be putting up some review questions for
the final exam.
The following will be for Set 1 of the questions - From Set 1 I will
draw three and you will answer only one. (Set two will be a question or
two of MY chosing that everybody must answer. It will NOT be from the
review questions).
*. Choose any two different crimes (one violent and one
non-violent) from current events in the past month ans explain
how social position (class, race, sex, gender, etc) permits
and/or prevents opportuities for their commission.
*. Do some social groups (race, age, class) commit more crimes
than others? Are some groups victimized more than others? What
are the implications for solving the "crime problem" for whatever
your answer is? How might you account for any differences in
victimization or perpetration?
*. Read the following article on the Matrix of Domination:
a) Summarize the article
b) What are the strengths/weaknesses of the article?
c) HOw can you apply the article to criminology?
*. Choose any two different crimes (one violent and one
non-violent) from current events in the past month ans explain
how social position (class, race, sex, gender, etc) permits
and/or prevents opportuities for their commission.
*. Compare and contrast the frequency and costs of the various
types of crime we have studied (eg, syndicated crime, white
collar crime, violent crime, etc). Then fully explain which
crimes you feel are the most costly to society, and then discuss
whether we need to have different priorities in our "war on
crime."
==Added Sunday, Aug 4 ===
*. Drawing from all text, lecture, webboard and current events material,
fully answer this: You are asked by the President of the US to lower
the crime rates. What would you do?
(answer must include defintion of crime, ranking crimes in priority
of need, identifying a rationale (or theory) to guide your policies,
and a detailed description of your specific policies.
(chapter 16 questions):
*. The authors of our text claim that "compartive criminology" has
many problems, beginning with the definition. What are some of these
problems and how could they be overcome?
*. What are some of the reasons that theorists give for relative low
crime rates in Dublin and Ireland. Do the authors of our text find
these convincing?
*. What lessons, if any, can US Policymakers derive from the incidence
of crime on other countries?
*. Why are the rates of violent crim in the U.S. so high in comparison with
other modern industrialized countries?