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Crime and poverty

Exercise

1. «Different eras will sometimes have differing facets of the same explanation to explain away the evil in men's hearts.»(11.4-5) In paras. 1 and 2 Koch gives us two «facets of the same explanation (11.4-5)»for the evil that men do. At first, these «facets» seem like two different types of explanations. 1) Instructions: Fill in the chart below, providing the appropriate explanations in each of the blank spaces.

                                   Type A                  Type B

                            ( psychological)    ( Socio-Economic )

2. What do explanations A and B have in common? (Where does Koch give the answer to this questions)?

3. Who is the «average person» (11.30, 119)? What does he believe?

4. Who are the «elitists» (1.33)? What do they believe?

5. With whom does Koch assume that his reader identifies (i.e., with the average person or with the elitists)? Where and how does he suggest this? (Cite relevant passages, giving line numbers).

6. With whom does Koch imply that he identifies? Where and how does he imply this identification? (Cite passages, giving line numbers).

7. Consider the various sources of the evidence Koch uses to support his view. Would you say he used a representative sample of all the research done in this area? (Or was his sample biased)?

1) Later Koch tells what they have in common.