sociology ch 7

Looking back in history, the oldest justification for punishing an offender is ________

What concept did Erving Goffman use to refer to a powerful and negative label that greatly changes a person's self-concept and social identity?

Crime committed by persons of high social position during the course of their occupations is called ________

"The recognized violation of cultural norms" refers to the concept of ________

A judge sentences a young man who has committed several crimes to counseling and places him in a supportive foster home. These efforts to prevent further wrongdoing are called ________

"Crimes against the person" includes all but ________

Criminal statistics gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation reflect ________

Travis Hirschi's control theory suggests that the category of people most likely to engage in deviance is ________

According to Durkheim, functions of deviance include ________

Research suggests that, with regard to social class, arrest for serious crime _______

Walter Reckless and Simon Dinitz claimed that "good boys" have the ability to rein in deviant impulses. They called their analysis ________

According to Robert Merton's strain theory, the term _______ correctly describes the behavior of a radical activist who rejects just about everything in the existing society in favor of some alternative system.

Every society uses various strategies to regulate the behavior of individuals; this general process is called ________

According to 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?

Because there are several hundred people in the United States for every police officer, police ________

Most criminal cases handled by the criminal justice system in the United States are resolved ________

An example of the "medicalization of deviance" is ________

If a parent threatens a child with punishment in order to discourage wrongdoing, the parent is using punishment to accomplish ________

Cloward and Ohlin extended Merton's theory of deviance, stating that crime ________

Edwin Sutherland's differential association theory links deviance to ________

The concept of criminal recidivism refers to ________

According to Elliot Currie, factors that explain the high crime rate in the United States by world standards include ________

Victimization surveys show that the actual amount of crime in the United States is about _____ what official reports indicate.

In his study of New England's Puritans, Kai Erikson concluded that ________

Both Albert Cohen and Walter Miller argue that delinquency is most likely to arise among ________