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Critical and Feminist Theories MCQ

_____ is known as a feminist theory formulated by James Messerschmidt that focuses on how individuals “do gender.”

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Correct Answer: Structured Action Theory

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_____ is defined as campbell’s thesis that staying alive is more crucial to a mother’s reproductive success than to a father’s and that greater fear in females is a result.

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Correct Answer: Staying-Alive Hypothesis

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_____ is willem Bonger’s proposition that individuals vary in their risk for crime because they vary in the innate social sentiments of altruism and egoism.

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Correct Answer: Social Sentiments

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Is restorative Justice a system of mediation and conflict resolution oriented toward justice by repairing the harm caused by the crime using a face-to-face confrontation between victim and perpetrator?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as the working class in Marxist theory.

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Correct Answer: Proletariat

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_____ is defined as marxist idea that crime is simply the product of people rebelling against unjust and alienating social conditions.

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Correct Answer: Primitive Rebellion Hypothesis

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_____ is a feminist theory that views gender differences in criminal and delinquent behavior to be a function of power differentials in the family.

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Correct Answer: Power-Control Theory

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Is peacemaking Criminology theory based on the postmodernist tradition that rejects the notion that the scientific view is better than any other view and believes that any method of understanding can be objective?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as any social system that is male dominated at all levels from the family to the highest reaches of government and supported by the belief of male superiority.

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Correct Answer: Patriarchy

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_____ is defined as groups whose interests are sufficiently on the margins of mainstream society so that just about all their activities are criminalized.

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Correct Answer: Minority Power Groups

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_____ is freda Adler’s idea that as females increasingly adopt male roles they will increasingly masculinize their attitudes and behavior and become as crime-prone as men.

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Correct Answer: Masculinization Hypothesis

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Is lumpenproletariat the lowest (“criminal class”) class in Marxist theory?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as group of Marxist criminologists who want to work within the system to make things better for the working classes.

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Correct Answer: Left Realists

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_____ is defined as concept in structured action theory positing the cultural ideal of masculinity men are expected to live up to, that is, “work in the paid-labor market, the subordination of women, heterosexism, and the driven uncontrollable sexuality of men.”

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Correct Answer: Hegemonic Masculinity

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_____ is an issue in feminist criminology asking if traditional theories based on male offender samples apply to women offenders.

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Correct Answer: Generalizability Problem

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Is gender Ratio Problem an issue in feminist criminology asking why always and everywhere females commit far less crime than males?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as rita Simon’s view that increased participation in the workforce affords women greater opportunities to commit job-related crime without undergoing “masculinization.”

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Correct Answer: Emancipation Hypothesis

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_____ is defined as argues that much of female crime is related to economic need.

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Correct Answer: Economic Marginalization Hypothesis

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_____ is an umbrella term for a variety of theories united only by the assumption that conflict and power relations between various classes of people best characterize the nature of society.

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Correct Answer: Critical Criminology

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Is class Struggle marxist concept stating that all history is the history of class struggles?

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Correct Answer: True

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_____ is known as in Marxism, the owners of the means of production.

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Correct Answer: Bourgeoisie

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_____ is defined as a condition that describes the estrangement or distancing of individuals from something, such as another person or from society in general.

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Correct Answer: Alienation

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Sutherland believes criminal behavior is learned?

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Correct Answer: True

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Who were the owners of the means of production during Marx’s time?

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Correct Answer: Bourgeoisie

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Differential association may vary in frequency, duration, priority, and intensity.

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Correct Answer: True

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Gangs are examples of what?

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Correct Answer: Minority power groups

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Left realists are a group of Marxist criminologists who want to work within the system to make things better for the working classes.

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Correct Answer: True

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Who is the father of critical criminology?

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Correct Answer: Karl Marx

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Proletariat’s were the oppressed workers during Marx’s time.

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Correct Answer: True

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Critical criminology is an umbrella term for a variety of theories united only by the assumption that conflict and power relations between various classes of people best characterize the nature of society.

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Correct Answer: True

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What is the lowest class in Marxist theory?

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Correct Answer: Lumpenproletariat

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Alienation describes the distancing of individuals from something.

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Correct Answer: True

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