Question

Which of the following statements helps describe how Jack Katz’s book Seductions of Crime explained deviance in a new way? Group of answer choices

a. Conflict theorists have frequently argued that differences in economic resources give elites the ability to control the coercive apparatus of the state.
b. Pronounced economic differences also provide elites with a need to maintain order.
c. Three decades ago, criminologists widely decried the failure of rehabilitative efforts to reduce recidivism.
d. This "nothing works" attitude permeated the field of criminal justice, and a period of punitive justice was ushered in.
e. The social science literature contains only scattered evidence of what it means, feels, sounds, tastes, or looks like to commit a particular crime.
f. Society should be considered as a cross between the cultural "goals" for which it believes its members should strive and the "means" that are believed, legally or morally, to be legitimate ways in which individuals should attain these goals.

Answer 1

The correct answer is E) The social science literature contains only scattered evidence of what it means, feels, sounds, tastes, or looks like to commit a particular crime.

The statement that helps describe how Jack Katz’s book "Seductions of Crime" explained deviance in a new way is "The social science literature contains only scattered evidence of what it means, feels, sounds, tastes, or looks like to commit a particular crime."

In this book, Jack Katz refers to the mind of a criminal and explains why many crimes are committed. He tries to explore the mind of criminals and offers a vision of why people are prone to commit crimes. He affirms that many times criminals are faced with moral questions, a plethora of emotions and sensual sensations, before committing their crimes. Jack Katz is a sociologist and a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles.

Answer 2

The correct answer is option letter F (Society should be considered as a cross between the cultural "goals" for which it believes its members should strive and the "means" that are believed, legally or morally, to be legitimate ways in which individuals should attain these goals.). In his book “Seductions of Crime” (1988), sociologist Jack Katz challenges the conventional view the mainstream body of crime and focuses on the “foreground of experience” of criminals instead of the “background factors”. In other words, details about social class, gender, or age help understand better the “moral and sensual attractions in doing evil”. He explains how the social structure of criminals plays a key role in understanding deviance, since criminality arises from the clash between the cultural “goals” and norms and the possibilities (“means”) that are socially structured of acting accordingly.