crime

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To receive full credit for this assignment, you must answer the following question(s) completely and correctly with specific, and properly cited, reference to course material.  Answers should utilize complete sentences, be clearly and professionally written, and be free from spelling, grammar, word choice, and syntax (sentence construction) errors.  1. The reading covers various attempts to “explain crime” from each of the three theoretical perspectives.  Choose one perspective (conflict, functionalist, or interactionist) and summarize one theory from that perspective and how it attempts to explain crime (for example, you might pick and summarize “social disorganization theory” under the functionalist perspective or “labeling theory” under the interactionist perspective.). Do you personally find this theory convincing? Why or why not? 2. Lecture covers several psychological or social/sociological ways of trying to understand mass shootings or the people who perpetrate them.  Choose and summarize two.  Again, do you personally find this/these explanations convincing?  Why or why not?