Questions for SUTHERLAND, CRESSEY, AND LUCKENBILL

1. What is criminology - c1
2. What is the relationship between theory and practice?
3. What is their definition of crime?
4. Is criminal law distinct?
5. What are the ideal characteristics of criminal law?
6. What are the characteristics of crime? What are the exceptions to these generalizations?
7. What are the implications of the relativity of crime?
8. What are the different types of crime classifications and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?
9. What are the different approaches to defining a criminal (or delinquent)?
10. What are the consequences of crime?
11. What is the science of criminology about? Is it possible?
12. What is social control? How does law serve that end?  - c2
13. What are the different forms of legal control? Have criminologists paid equal attention to all?
14. Summarize the consensus (i.e., functional) and conflict perspectives on criminal law. How are they different? Can you illustrate?
15. What are the effects of criminal law?
16. What is white collar crime - p. 62 - starts
17. Why is there so much?
18. Why is it so little studied?
19. What are the impacts of under studying white collar crime?
20. For each of the main "schools" described you want to be able to say - where did it come from? What is their view on crime and criminals? What types of data supported their views?
21. What are the key points of their differential association theory? - c 5
22. How has it been mis-interpreted?
23. What are some substantive criticisms?
24. How are criminals socially organized? - p. 256
25. What are some views about organized crime in the U.S.?

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