Student Resources
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Learning Objectives
Chapter 1
- Examine the factors causing the decline in crime rates.
- Analyze the excuses that are made for high crime rates and how these crime rates can be reduced if given an opportunity.
- Understand the various known sources of crime and their influence on America’s social policy.
- Identify the various programs that have contributed to reduce crime.
- Examine the Durkheim–Erikson and Foucault view and the benefits of deviance.
Chapter 2
- Understand and differentiate between the acts which are labelled as crime and the actors and actions that are treated as criminals.
- Evaluate the role played by the criminal justice system as well as human decisions in protecting against real dangers that threaten the society.
- Explain the way in which the public’s image of crime is created through the Pyrrhic defeat theory-composed of five hypotheses that reflect the criminal justice system as a carnival mirror.
- Critique the objections against the poor within the criminal justice system than on the well-off criminal; and also explain the actions caused from crimes by other names.
Chapter 3
- Understand the process of weeding-out the wealthy and explain issues such as arrest and charging, adjudication and conviction, and sentencing at different levels of the criminal justice system.
- Describe how the society actively pursues and prosecutes the poor rather than the well-off for the acts that are labeled crime.
- Explain why the criminal justice system neither protects society nor achieves justice.
- Understand the implicit ideology of criminal justice and its bias against the poor.
- Evaluate the concept of ideology and the need for it.