- Your instructor defines criminology as the effort to explain the relationships
among crime, law, and criminalization. Define each of these terms, showing that
you understand the differences among legal, polemical (behavioral), and
empirical (labeling) conceptions of the nature and sources of criminality. - If crime is a socially constructed phenomenon, then biological and psychological
factors are irrelevant to the study of crime and criminals. Agree or disagree?
Why? - Which one or more of the major theoretical orientations (structural, values
differences, labeling and power) do you find most useful in explaining why you
are in school instead of jail or prison?
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