Criminology and Social Injuries Quiz

Analogous Social Injuries

• Analogous social injuries are similar to other forms of harm.

White-Collar Crimes

• White-collar crimes are offenses committed by individuals in positions of power or authority.

State-Corporate Crimes

• State-corporate crimes involve collaboration between governments and corporations to produce harm, often for profit.
• They can occur at multiple levels, for example: involving high-level bureaucratic decisions, lower-level operational practices, and/or individual actions.

State-Corporate Crimes (Levels of Action)

• State-corporate crimes involve various levels from policy to implementation.

State-Corporate Crimes (Catalysts for Action)

• Catalysts propel state-corporate crimes—economic pressures, political incentives, and the desire for profit.

Green Criminology

• Green criminology studies environmental harms as forms of crime.

Green Crimes

• Green crimes are actions causing environmental damage, often viewed from a social justice or ecological perspective.

Political Economy

• Political economy is an approach analyzing power structures and economic systems that shape social problems.

Ecological Disorganization

• Ecological disorganization pertains to how social structures and environments impact communities negatively.

Environmental Justice

• Environmental justice examines how environmental problems disproportionately affect marginalized populations.

Environmental Racism

• Environmental racism is the phenomenon where marginalized groups receive more environmental hazards than other groups.

Theoretical Competition

• Theoretical competition involves comparing or contrasting different theories.

Theoretical Integration

• Theoretical integration is synthesizing or merging different theories to develop a more complete understanding.

Conceptual Absorption

• Conceptual absorption refers to taking elements of one theory and incorporating them into another.

Conceptual Integration

• Conceptual integration combines separate concepts into a single framework.

Propositional Integration

• Propositional integration merges independent propositions into a unified understanding.

Parsimony

• Parsimony involves developing simpler, more efficient theories.

State-Corporate Crimes (General Framework and Assumptions)

• State-corporate crimes involve complex interactions between government and industry, often involving profit.

State-Corporate Crimes (State-Initiated vs. State-Facilitated)

• State-initiated crimes—direct governmental involvement in illegal actions; state-facilitated—government inactions enable corporate crime.

Treadmill of Law

• The treadmill of law is a theoretical framework discussing the need for continual adaptation in laws and regulations, driven by the constant need to keep up.

Environmental Law (Examples)

• Examples of environmental laws include regulations on pollution, hazardous waste, and resource conservation.

Political Economy (General Framework and Assumptions)

• Political economy considers economic and political systems' influence on social matters like crime.

State-Corporate Crimes vs. Green Crimes (Similarities)

• Both include environmental damage and involve powerful actors.

State-Corporate Crimes vs. Green Crimes (Examples)

• Examples of state-corporate crimes include environmental regulations being ignored, whereas green crime examples can involve illegal waste dumping.

Evaluating and Developing Criminological Theory (Three Primary Ways to Do So)

• Evaluating criminological theories involves testing, comparing or synthesizing theories, and using them to create new theories.

Evaluating and Developing Criminological Theory (Examples of Ways to Do So)

• Testing theories with empirical analyses and comparing them to each other are ways of evaluating and developing criminological theory.

Propositional Integration (Three Primary Types)

• Propositional integration combines independent propositions into one structured framework.

Conceptual Absorption (Example)

• Example: Incorporating elements of the theory of crime into a new framework of state-corporate crime.

Test your understanding of various forms of crime including white-collar crimes, state-corporate crimes, and green criminology. This quiz covers the different levels of action and catalysts that drive these crimes. Explore how analogous social injuries relate to these concepts.