Children who grow up to become serious criminals are often raised in troubled and disadvantaged families

• Pages
  2 pages (550 words) Double spaced
• Type of paper
  Other (See paper instructions) Undergraduate (yrs. 3-4)
• Discipline
  Sociology
• Title
  See paper instructions
• Sources to be cited
  2
• Paper format
  APA

SOC 230-H81: Criminology Final Examination (Fall 2019 Semester)

Please answer any TWO of the following questions, must be at least one page each and uploaded on blackboard by Thursday December 19 at 11:59pm. Any research must be cited using APA or ASA format.

• Using any two of the founders of Marxist Theory and the application of social conflict to crime, discuss how there could be an increase in the number of incidents involving the police of physical force or deadly physical force.
• Explain how one’s social structure and the social structure approach to crime causation could contribute to the number of encounters one has with the police and the criminal justice system. How would a social structure theorist explain the presence of crime in a middle or upper class neighborhood?
• Compare and contrast “age-graded theory” and “age of onset”? Using life course theory, describe how the experiences of adolescents differ from adults as well as how these experiences contribute to criminal behavior.
• Evaluate the following statement: “Children who grow up to become serious criminals are often raised in troubled and disadvantaged families”. Using the social process approach to crime causation, discuss the importance of family structure when it comes to criminal behavior.
• Compare and contrast civil law and criminal law. Please cite appropriate terms, burden and standards of proof. Discuss the process of each as a system describing each relevant step.