Exam 7: Deviance and Crime

According to official statistics,Latinos/as are the most overrepresented racial minority group in arrest data.

The______________feminist approach explains women's deviance and crime as a rational response to the gender discrimination that women experience in families and the workplace.

In 2011,______________accounted for about 69 percent of all arrests for property crimes and about 58 percent of arrests for violent crimes.

Four types of political deviance have been attributed to some government officials.Which of the following is NOT one of these types?

According to the functionalist perspective,deviance is universal because it serves all of the following important functions EXCEPT:

Labeling theories suggest that the probability of delinquency increases when a person's social bonds are weak and when peers promote antisocial values and violent behavior.

Functionalist theorists focus on how power relations in society influence the law and the criminal justice system,often to the detriment of people who are at the bottom of the social structure hierarchy.

According to functionalists,acts of civil disobedience (including lunch counter sit-ins and bus boycotts)exemplify which function of deviance?

In 2011,about______________million arrests were made in the United States for all criminal infractions (excluding traffic violations).

In the late 1980s,several top Pentagon officials were found guilty of receiving bribes for passing classified information on to major defense contractors that had garnered many lucrative contracts from the government.This is an example of: