problem1. Appraise the central ideas of the conflict approach to criminality and deviance

problem2. In what ways are social and cultural conflicts involved in definition and control of criminality and deviance?

problem3. Measure the strengths and weaknesses of conflict theory in describeing criminality and deviance.

problem4. Measure the sociological explanations of gender differences on patterns of crime.

problem5. Appraise the feminist explanations of why women are victims of crime.

problem6. Define and describe higher and lower consensus deviance.

problem7. Provide two exs of each type of deviance.

problem8. Why does the public frequently disagree over whether a form of deviance is higher or lower?

problem9. Measure the view that deviance exists only in the mind of the observer.

problem10. Postmodernism emerged in the early twentieth century to problem the essential values of modernism and has become a new theoretical perspective in sociology and criminology. (Thio, 2010)

problem11. Determine and describe two ways in which postmodernism has raised our understanding of sociology and criminology.