Sociology Chapter 7 example #59447

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?

Based on your reading, it would be correct to say that biological approaches offer

In the United States, men account for about _____ of all arrests for violent crime.

According to the social-conflict approach, what a society labels as deviant is based primarily on

According to Durkheim, functions of deviance include

A hate crime is defined as

Criminal statistics gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation reflect

The concept criminal recidivism refers to

In terms of racial categories, most of the people in the United States arrested for FBI Index crimes are

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

Edwin Sutherland stated that white-collar crime

Alexander Liazos speaks for the social-conflict approach when he states that

The formal system that responds to alleged violations of the law using police, courts, and prison officials is called

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

Every society tries to regulate the behavior of individuals; this general process is called ______.

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

According to Robert Merton's strain theory, the term ________ would correctly describe a gangster like Al Capone, who made a lot of money breaking the law.

Women commit

Crime" differs from "deviance" in that crime

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

The value of psychological theories of deviance is limited because

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

One of the social foundations of deviance is that

The basic idea behind labeling theory is that

Men, who represent about half the U.S. population, account for about _____ of all arrests for property crime.

An example of the "medicalization of deviance" is

________________ refers to the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf.

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

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

Organized crime refers to

The concept of due process refers to

The likelihood a person will be arrested for a street crime rises sharply

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

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

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