Control, Conflict, and the Modern and Contemporary Theoretical Turn

About this mock

Sources & references

Questions in this mock are written and verified against the following sources. Citations are recorded per question and shown in the explanation after submission.

• Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration (1989)

  Reintegrative shaming works best under communitarianism and interdependency

  Open source
  cited in 3 questions

• Daly and Chesney-Lind, "Feminism and Criminology", Justice Quarterly 5 (1988)

  The generalizability problem: whether male-derived theory explains female offending

  Open source
  cited in 2 questions

• Suler, "The Online Disinhibition Effect", CyberPsychology & Behavior 7 (2004)

  Reduced accountability online loosens normal behavioural restraint

  Open source
  cited in 2 questions

• Lyng, "Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk Taking", American Journal of Sociology 95 (1990)

  Edgework as voluntary negotiation of the boundary between order and chaos

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Lea and Young, What Is To Be Done About Law and Order? (1984)

  The square of crime: offender, victim, state, and the public

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Katz, Seductions of Crime (1988)

  Situational emotional and sensual dynamics draw offenders to crime

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Ronel and Elisha, "A Different Perspective: Introducing Positive Criminology", International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 55 (2011)

  Desistance driven by encounters with goodness and social inclusion

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Sampson and Laub, Crime in the Making (1993)

  Turning points such as marriage and employment drive adult desistance

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Wilson and Kelling, "Broken Windows", The Atlantic (1982)

  Unattended disorder signals no one is in charge, inviting further disorder and crime

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Critical criminology / labelling theory on criminalisation

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Reckless, Containment Theory

  Inner containment components: self-concept and frustration tolerance

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Connell, Masculinities (1995); Messerschmidt, Masculinities and Crime (1993)

  Hegemonic masculinity as the culturally dominant ideal of manhood

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Farrington, Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory

  Short-term potential varies as long-term potential interacts with situations

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Pepinsky and Quinney (eds.), Criminology as Peacemaking (1991)

  Peacemaking criminology grounded in nonviolence

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Moffitt, "Adolescence-Limited and Life-Course-Persistent Antisocial Behavior", Psychological Review 100 (1993)

  The dual taxonomy of life-course-persistent vs adolescence-limited offenders

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Jaishankar, Space Transition Theory of Cyber Crimes

  People behave differently moving between physical space and cyberspace

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Visual criminology (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology)

  Images construct and circulate public meanings of crime

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Quinney, Class, State, and Crime (1977)

  Law as an instrument serving the interests of the powerful/ruling class

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Sykes and Matza, "Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency" (1957)

  The five techniques, including denial of injury

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Wilson, Thinking About Crime (1975)

  Right realism's rational-actor, deterrence-based model of crime

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Green criminology's three justice frameworks (environmental, ecological, species)

  Species justice addresses harms to non-human animals and other species

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Barak, "Doing Newsmaking Criminology from within the Academy" (2007)

  Criminologists engaging mass media to shape crime coverage

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Matza, Delinquency and Drift (1964)

  Drift as an intermittent, reversible state between conventional and criminal action

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• National Institute of Justice, "What is Translational Criminology?"

  Converting research findings into criminal justice practice and policy

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Lynch, "The Greening of Criminology: A Perspective for the 1990s" (1990)

  Founding extension of criminology to environmental harms

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

• Miliband-Poulantzas debate on instrumentalist vs structuralist Marxism

  Instrumentalist Marxism treats the state/law as a direct tool of the capitalist class

  Open source
  cited in 1 question

How our mocks are built

Questions are written and edited by the ForensicSpot team and cited from peer-reviewed forensic textbooks, official syllabi and primary case law. Each one is verified before publishing. Detailed explanations show after you submit, so the test stays a real test. See a mistake? Tell us.

Common questions