Exam 7: Deviance and Crime

Enrique is an openly gay man living in Toronto. However, during visits to his parents in a small town in Ontario, Enrique conceals his gay identity. What is Enrique trying to avoid?

Is it true that children from divorced families are more likely to be deviant? Why or why not?

Some societies are deviance-free.

When Hans is asked to define deviance to his classmates, which of the following does he assert?

Consider the case of NHL hockey player Todd Bertuzzi, who was charged with assault but received only a slight sentence. What type of deviance does this illustrate?

Nurul is from a poor home and dreams of becoming a doctor. She has excellent grades and wins a scholarship for university. However, in her undergraduate class, she becomes disillusioned with the medical profession and eventually concludes that medical practice is organized in a way that benefits doctors, rather than patients. She leaves university and founds a group dedicated to empowering patients. In strain theory terms, what is Nurul?

Which of the following theorists developed the strain theory of deviance?

Define types of deviance and crime. Give one example of each.

Which of the following reforms of the Canadian penal system has been suggested as means to reduce recidivism?

Define white-collar crime and give an example of it.

Glynnis watches Scott dump a day's worth of tree seedlings into a ravine instead of planting them. The company that employs Glynnis and Scott has a strict policy about this action, which is viewed as theft, so Glynnis tells the supervisor what she has witnessed. Scott is fired immediately. Which of the following did Scott receive?

Which of the following crimes would Merton's theory best be able to explain?

Which of the following terms refers to acts of deviance that are formally defined as illegal but are subject to a great deal of societal disagreement about their illegality?

A central question of control theory is: "Why doesn't everyone engage in deviant behaviour?"

Define the official crime rate and alternate sources of information about crime. What differences in prevalence of crime are these sources likely to show?

Which of the following has resulted in changes in Canadian laws on violence against women since 1970?

Conrad Black, a Canadian media mogul, was sentenced in 2007 to 6.5 years in a Florida prison for fraud totalling $2.9 million in misappropriated funds. Of what type of crime was he found guilty?

Compare strain and subcultural theories of deviance and crime.

People who break a cultural norm are considered to be which of the following?

Which of the following illustrates a crime?