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APUS57 · **on:** Aug 17, 2018

Discuss the mutual relevance of sociology and criminology.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Match the key words or phrases with the associated phrase.

1. sociological perspective a. society ranking different groups of people
2. structural criminology b. result of personal biography with historical and social conditions
3. vertical social structure c. behavior that violates social norms and receives negative social reactions
4. private troubles d. understanding crime with specific attention to the issues of poverty, race, and ethnicity, as well as the structure of communities and social relationships
5. criminology e. unwritten and informal social norms
6. customs f. social and physical characteristics of communities and the networks of social relationships
7. entrapment g. focuses on the idea that people are social beings more than mere individuals
8. deviance h. situations where a crime is committed because law enforcement agents induced the offender to do so
9. experiments i. the study of crime and criminal justice
10. horizontal social structure j. less common way to obtain data in criminology and sociology than in psychology

chereeb · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 17, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: Crime, victimization, and criminal justice cannot be fully understood without appreciating their structural context. Using Mills terminology, crime and victimization are public issues rather than private troubles. They are rooted in the social and physical characteristics of communities, in the network of relationships in which people interact, and in the structured social inequalities of race and ethnicity, social class, and gender. Reflecting this point, many of criminologys important concepts, including anomie, relative deprivation, and social conflict, draw from concepts originally developed in the larger body of sociology. Additional information may be included in the answer.

Answer to Question 2

1. g
2. d
3. a
4. b
5. i
6. e
7. h
8. c
9. j
10. f