Answer the following questions and label them. You can use the attached text to find answers if needed.
1. What is the shock doctrine?
2. Conservative theories essentially argue that crime does not have “root causes” or, if it does, they would not be effectively addressed by government interventions that redistribute wealth or extend safety nets to those in need. True or False?
3. The theories from this chapter mostly advocate interventions aimed at helping, not controlling the individuals at risk of committing crimes. True or False?
4. Wilson and Herrnstein’s work implied that certain biological predispositions were found disproportionately among the poor and may be responsible for excessive criminal behavior. True or False?
5. Wilson and Herrnstein (1985) concluded that the solution to crime lies in two domains: having parents punish and control children more effectively and having the government punish offenders more certainly, quickly, and perhaps harshly. True or False?
6. There is conclusive evidence that criminal justice sanctions teach morality True or False?
7. Samenow (1984) systematically ignored criminological research showing that a range of social factors cause criminal involvement. True or False?
8. Conservative criminologists in this chapter primarily argued that the problem of crime is structural, not cultural. True or False?
9. ____ theory posits that disorder caused by disreputable people → breakdown in informal control → invasion of predatory criminals → high crimes rates in the neighborhood.
10. Which of the following were more harshly criminalized with “zero-tolerance” and “quality-of-life” policing? (pick all options that are correct): loitering, sleeping in doorways, jsy walking, embezzlement
11. Conservative theories tend to take the existing society as a given and to see crime as the inability of deficient individuals to adjust to that society. True or False?
12. Which of the following are examples of policies that resulted from conservative theorizing in criminology(pick all options that are correct): abolition of parole, three strikes laws, madatory sentencing, abolition of the death penalty
13. The U.S. incarceration rate is much lower than that of other Western democracies. True or False?
14. ____ theory posits that some will pursue crime so long as the benefits outweigh the costs.
15. Explain the corrections-commercial complex:
16. Conservative theories tend to believe that crime is the result of structural factors, not individuals. True or False?
