Week 1 DQ 1

Week 1 DQ #1: Using legal, political, sociological, and psychological perspectives from your text, how would each view the link between crime and deviance?

Week 1 DQ 2

Week 1 DQ #2: What is the difference between using scientific knowledge versus personal experience to understand crime patterns?

Week 2 DQ 1

Week 2 DQ #1: Compare and contrast determinate sentencing and truth-in-sentencing practices. How would social problem and responsibility perspectives argue for one or the other?

Week 2 DQ 2

Week 2 DQ #2: How would you respond to David Abrahamsen’s statement, “The American dream is, in part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living”?

Week 3 DQ 1

Week 3 DQ #1: How do illegitimate opportunity structures assist in explaining delinquency and criminal behavior? How is this associated with different types of subcultures?

Week 3 DQ 2

Week 3 DQ #2: What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? What role does this play in continued deviance?

Week 4 DQ 1

Week 4 DQ #1: What reasons might people provide for not reporting crimes to the police?

Week 4 DQ 2

Week 4 DQ #2: Would the association between drugs and crime disappear if drugs were legalized or decriminalized?  Should certain drugs be decriminalized? If yes, which ones? Why?

Week 5 DQ 1

Week 5 DQ #1: Should regulating practices on the Internet be the responsibility of parents or the government?

Week 5 DQ 2

Week 5 DQ #2: Of all current and possible strategies aimed at crime, which do you find most persuasive? Why?