Discuss the following topics as they relate to your article and the criminological theory .

Essay 2 Assignment
SOCI236
– Issues in Crime

Instructor:
Alexander
Shvarts
Due
Date: March 27, 2022
Total
marks: 20% of final mark
Marks
deducted for lateness: 5% or 1 mark/day

Instructions:

1.
Choose an issue in crime/criminology from one of the
following areas:
(a)
Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality
(b)
Drug Dealers
(c)
Thieves
(d)
White-Collar Crime
(e)
Delinquency and Parental Controls
(f)
Urban Black Violence
(g)
State-Organized Crime
(h)
Black Violence in Chicago
(i)
Fraternities and Rape on Campus
(j)
Women who commit serious violent crimes

2.
Based on the issue in crime which you have chosen
you will be provided with an article from a sociological or criminological
journal on your topic.

3.
Relate your article to one of the following
criminological theories that were covered in class and in your text:
(a)
Social Disorganization theories
(b)
Strain and Subcultural theories
(c)
Social Learning (Differential Association),
Neutralization, and Social Control theories
(d)
Conflict and Marxist theories
(e)
Feminist theories

4.
Discuss the following topics as they relate to your
article and the criminological theory that you have chosen:
(a)
Basic Idea and Major Theorists
(b)
The Role of Law, the Definition of Crime, and the
Image of the Criminal
(c)
Causal Logic
(d)
Criminal Justice System Implications, including
Criminal Justice Policy and Correctional Ideology and Techniques of Crime
Control

5.
Conclude by providing an evaluation/criticism of the
article that you have chosen. The
criticism can come from a different criminological theory than the one that you
have chosen, which looks at your issue of crime in a different light. For example, Strain theories of crime are
criticized by Marxist and conflict theories for only focussing on lower-class
crime because strain theory provides little analysis of how crime is
constructed by the powerful and it is based on official statistics.

6.
Adequate citations, endnotes, and references must be
provided in order to avoid PLAGIARISM.
In class, we will go over the proper format that you should use for
references.

7.
The essay should be minimum 1000 words in length (4
pages), double-spaced, typed.

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