Explain the social and economic changes that drove the transition from pre-industrial agricultural societies towards post-industrial societies.

History of Criminology
Exam 1 Review Sheet

Essay (50 Points) You will be asked to answer one of the following questions.
Option 1:
Explain the social and economic changes that drove the transition from pre-industrial agricultural societies towards post-industrial societies. How did these developments affect the birth and development of the criminal justice system as we know it?
Option 2:
Explain how the transition into the modernity helped drive European colonization of the rest of the world. What were the economic and social functions of the colonies for those building empires? How did criminal justice function in the colonies? What did this accomplish for the colonizers? What did it do to the indigenous people?

Option 3:
Specifically in the case of the British American colonies, how was the criminal justice system used to reinforce the colonial social order? Explain how the criminal justice system established this role in the early days of colonization and maintained that role after independence and up until the civil war; how that role shifted during Jim Crow; and how it persisted in the war on drugs?

Short Answers/Definitions (50 points)
(I’ll choose a list of options from the items below and you will choose 5 to define.)
Modernity
Pre-industrial
Enclosure Movement
Proletariat
Crises of Over-Production
Colony
Metropolis
Bureaucracy
Fascism
Triangle Trade
Bacon’s Rebellion
Virginia Slave Codes
Jim Crow
Grandfather Clauses
Literacy Test
Poll Tax
Felony Disenfranchisement
Federalism
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
War on Drugs

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