Paper instructions:
1. Critically assess the work of Emile Durkheim on the subsequent development of criminological theory?
2. Does the work of Chicago School theorists EITHER Shaw and Mackay OR Edwin Sutherland have any relevance to our understanding of crime problems today?
3. ‘Control theory is not so much a theory of deviance as a theory of conformity’, (Hilly et al, Criminological Theory, p. 71). Critically discuss.
4. Critically assess the origins and impact of labeling theory on our understanding of crime problems and the reaction of the criminal justice process to it.
5. Is Merton’s conceptualization of anomie a sufficient explanation of why young, urban, poor and ethnic minority males have high crime rates?
6. Assess the significance of radical criminology to our understanding of crime and responses to it.
7. What impact, if any, has New Right criminology had on thinking about crime and crime control policy?
8. Why should we study Albert Cohen’s Delinquent Boys, written in the mid 1950s, in a course on Criminological Theory in 2014?
9. How would you respond to the question posed by Allison Morris (1987): ‘”does feminist criminology mean criminologists who are feminist, female criminologists or criminologists who study women?’
10. Do you share John Braithwaite’s optimism that reintegrative shaming/restorative justice can reduce crime problems?