Which of the Following Statements Helps Explain Why Jack Katz

question 97

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements helps explain why Jack Katz thought his book Seductions of Crime explained deviance in a new way?

• A) Conflict theorists have frequently argued that differences in economic resources give elites the ability to control the coercive apparatus of the state. Pronounced economic differences also provide elites with a need to maintain order.
• B) Three decades ago, criminologists widely decried the failure of rehabilitative efforts to reduce recidivism. This "nothing works" attitude permeated the field of criminal justice, and a period of punitive justice was ushered in.
• C) The social science literature contains only scattered evidence of what it means, feels, sounds, tastes, or looks like to commit a particular crime.
• D) Society should be considered as a cross between the cultural "goals" it believes its members should strive for and the "means" that are believed, legally or morally, to be legitimate ways in which individuals should attain these goals.
• E) The discussion of positivist theories centering on peculiarities or abnormalities of the individual considers theories related to physical appearance, mental deficiency and feeblemindedness, hereditary and biological defectiveness, and psychiatry.

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