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The document is a review guide for Exam 2 in Sociology 222 - Criminology, scheduled for November 19th. It outlines the exam format, key concepts for review from various readings, and emphasizes the importance of being physically present to earn credit. Key areas include criminological theory, rational choice theory, social learning theory, social control theory, labeling theory, and strain theories.

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The document is a review guide for Exam 2 in Sociology 222 - Criminology, scheduled for November 19th. It outlines the exam format, key concepts for review from various readings, and emphasizes the importance of being physically present to earn credit. Key areas include criminological theory, rational choice theory, social learning theory, social control theory, labeling theory, and strain theories.

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Sociology 222– Criminology, FA2024, 01:920:222:03

Exam 2 Review Guide

Overview
 Exam 1 will occur on November 19th during the normally scheduled
class time in LSH A142
 You must be physically present in the classroom to earn credit
for completing the exam
 The exam will consist of 50 multiple-choice and true/false questions,
which will be administered through Canvas
 You will have 80 minutes to complete the exam.
 The exam may cover anything in the readings or discussed in class,
but I have included a list of key concepts or ideas from each content
area that you should consider reviewing (see below).
 Many of the quiz questions will reappear on the exam.

Content areas and key concepts for review

Key concepts or ideas for


Content area Reading(s)
review
 Theory (as a concept)
 Independent variable
 Dependent variable
 Criminality
 Correlate
 Probabilistic causality (soft
determinism)
 Necessary cause
 Akers et al. (2017):  Sufficient cause
Introduction to Introduction to  Mediation
criminological criminological theory, p.  Moderation
theory 1-13.  Biased associations (biased
explanations)
 Spurious associations (spurious
effects)
 Internal consistency
 Predictive scope
 Parsimony
 Falsifiability
 Empirical validity

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 Subjectivity (in preferences)


 Time preference (time positive,
time negative, time neutral)
 Expected utility function
 Risk orientation (risk aversion,
risk seekers, risk neutral)
 Rationality/rational behavior
 McCarthy (2002): New
 Self-interested rationality
economics of
 Present-aims standard of
Rational choice sociological
rationality
theory criminology, p. 417 -
 Irrational behavior
429 and 436 - 438
 Causal model of crime
(conclusion)
 Policy implications (state
sanctions, general deterrence,
specific deterrence, situational
crime prevention/target
hardening)
 Assessment of rational choice
theory
 Socialization
 Differential association (general
concept)
 Definitions (general concept)
 Imitation
 Differential reinforcement
(positive reinforcement, positive
Social learning  Akers et al. (2017): punishment, negative
theory Social learning theories reinforcement, negative
punishment)
 Social, non-social, and self
reinforcement
 Causal model of crime
 Policy implications
 Assessment of social learning
theory (issues with selection)
Social control  Akers et al. (2017):  Social bond
theory Social control theories  Attachment
 Commitment
 Involvement
 Belief

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 Life-course perspective
 Life-course transitions and
turning points
 Causal model of crime
 Policy implications
 Saints vs. roughnecks
(demographics, involvement in
delinquency, reactions of
community, etc.)
 Chambliss’s explanation for why
each group was differentially
labeled and the consequences of
 Chambliss (1973): The
labeling
Labeling theory saints and the
 Symbolic interactionism
roughnecks
 Primary deviance
 Secondary deviance
 Self-concept
 Causal model of crime
 Policy implications
 Assessment of labeling theory
(explains primary deviance?)
 Strain
 Merton’s views on the cause of
structural strain
 Merton’s modes of adaptation or
 Merton (1938): Social adjustment (conformity,
Strain theories
structure and anomie, p. innovation, ritualism, retreatism,
(Merton’s strain
672 - 682 and rebellion)
theory and
 Agnew’s sources of strain
Agnew’s general
 *No reading for  Agnew’s comparison of general
strain theory)
Agnew’s theory strain theory to social control
and social learning theory
 Agnew’s comments on coping
strategies (cognitive, behavioral,
and emotional)

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