Quiz 4 – Chapter 7: Deviance

Crime is only one category of deviance.

Cesare Lombroso, an Italian physician and criminologist, claimed that most criminals were people who had been mistreated by society.

Biological factors, including genetics, explain most criminal behavior.

What is considered deviant is almost exactly the same behavior all around the world.

Deviance is behavior that deviates from the social norm.

Robert Merton developed the control theory, which suggests that our connection to members of society leads us to systematically conform to society's norms.

A poor person who is little chance to go to college and so is illegal drugs to make money is one example of deviance that Merton calls "innovation. "

Albert Cohen suggested that lower-class youths form a delinquent subculture to gain the self-respect that society denies them.

Labeling theory stresses that some actions are always wrong and others are always right.

"Primary deviance" Refers to the most serious offenses.

The stigma of deviance can encourage an individual to engage in further deviance.

The "medicalization of deviance" idea points to the fact the most crimes are committed by people who are under the influence of an illegal drug.

Informal social control is expressed through law as statutes, rules, and regulation.

Gambling, public drunkenness, prostitution, and smoking marijuana are often considered "victimless" crimes.

Organized crime refers to supplying legal goods and services at below market prices.

Sociologists agree that the higher rates of violent crimes in the United States are the result of the emphasis our society places on individual economic achievement.

In general, people of higher social class position are less likely to be arrested for street crimes then people of lower class position.

"Due process" means handling a Lidget offenders within the bounds of the law.

Every person charged with a crime in the United States is sentence after receiving a trial by jury.

The old saying, "an eye for an eye," express is the essence of rehabilitation.

External social control is based on ________ , or rewards and punishments designed to encourage desired behavior.

___________ deviance refers to defiance as a lifestyle and as a personal identity.

The approach to crime control that discourages criminal acts by threatening punishment is called ____________.

"Crime" differs from "deviance" in that crime...

In Robert Merton's strain theory of deviance, which of the following concepts refers to the process of seeking conventional goes but rejecting the conventional means to achieve them?

Using the terms of Robert Merton's strain theory, Which of the following terms of correctly describe against you like Alcap home who made a lot of money breaking the law?

Using the terms of Robert Merton's strain theory, which of the following concepts correctly describes the behavior of a school "dropout" who rejects both cultural goals and the conventional means to reach them?

Using the terms of Robert Merton's strain theory, which of the following concepts correctly describes the behavior of a radical activist who rejects just about everything in the existing society in favor of some alternative system?

Using the terms of Robert Merton's strain theory, how would you classify a low-paid, yet compulsively conforming bank teller who never seems to want to get ahead but never seems to do anything wrong?

The basic idea behind labeling theory is that...

Organized crime refers to...

A hate crime is defined as...

In legal terms, a crime is composed of which two components?

Mike reports the theft of his dirt bike from the front yard of his house. The police will record this as which of the following types of crime?

Causing the death of another person without legal justification or excuse.

___________ is the unlawful sexual intercourse with the person, by force or without legal or factual concent.

__________ is the unlawful taking or attempted taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another, by force or threat of force.

________ is the intentional damaging or distraction or attempted damaging or distraction by means of fire or explosion of the fire or explosive with or without property without the consent of the owner, or of one's own property or that of another with the intent to defraud.

Name Robert Merton's 5 modes of adaptation of human behavior

Name two types of deviant behavior according to the Labeling theory:

Name two types of mental illnesses:

Name three types of suicide, according to Emile Durkheim:

Name two types of Psychoses:

Name two types of drinkers

__________ is a compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its consequences.

___________ is the unlawful taking or attempted taking of a self-propelled road vehicle owned by another, with the intent of depriving the owner of it permanently or temporarily.

__________ is the unlawful taking or attempted taking a property other than a motor vehicle from the position of another, by stealth, without force and without deceit, with intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property.