Exam 5: Deviance and Crime

Restorative justice adopts an alternative perspective on crime and punishment. It proponents hold that crime is behaviour that violates people and relationships; a conventional perspective is that crime is a behaviour that violates the state and its laws.

Research strategies for treating offenders, other than imprisonment. Identify what problems in the current prison system would be resolved by alternative strategies and expose problems that might arise from these alternatives.

When the Canadian public, lawmakers, and officials in the criminal justice system become motivated by media-generated heightened fears that crime poses a grave and immediate danger to society, what are they gripped by?

Those who participated in the planned extermination of the Jews, Romani, and homosexuals in Nazi Germany were behaving as law-abiding citizens at that time.

Steven and Jeff, two high school students, have been picking on Tony, a classmate of theirs. Tony is openly gay. Steven and Jeff regularly taunt him, and they painted derogatory words on his school locker. After Tony complained to the school, Steven and Jeff were both suspended. Jeff retaliated by assaulting Tony on his way home from school one day. Criminal charges were laid and Jeff was sentenced to three months of community service. What do sociologists call the sanction imposed on Jeff for his assault?