Exam 7: Deviance

________ is a business supplying illegal goods or services.

The Italian physician and criminologist who suggested that criminals were physically distinctive was William Sheldon.

Which term refers to reforming the offender to prevent subsequent offences?

The criminal recidivism rate in Canada is low.

Burglary is an example of what type of crime?

Which term refers to subjecting an offender to suffering comparable to that caused by the offence?

Which of the following is an appropriate criticism of structural-functional theories of deviance?

Asia, India, and Japan have very high crime rates.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Research studies confirm the idea that young people are more likely to engage in delinquency if they believe that members of their peer group encourage such activity.

In what category of crime is stealing a bicycle from a front yard?

List the consequences of defining deviance as either a moral or a medical issue.

To be deviant one must have committed a deviant act.

Police are "colour-blind"; race and ethnicity has no impact on the probability of getting arrested.

Critics say that plea-bargaining pressures defendants to plead guilty.

What are Durkheim's functions of deviance?

How would you reduce delinquency by applying the Gluecks' approach to body structure and delinquency?

Which of the following is a reason violent crime rates are down?

Deviance and crime are two terms for the same phenomenon.

Deviance is inevitable in all societies.