Exam 8: Deviance and Social Control

Gale works as an attorney twelve hours a day, six days a week. She is good at what she does, and as a result now owns a $500,000 house in the suburbs. According to Merton's typology, Gale would be classified as:

Distinguish between deviance and stigma.

For Marxian students of social deviance, the cultural-conflict explanation proposed by Daniel Bell is inadequate because:

Societies with Marxian ideologies are relatively free of deviance and crime.

_________ refers to attempts to prevent crime and protect society from criminal predation.

A person who violates or opposes a society's most valued norms is termed:

Goffman defines stigma as

In one series of studies of the equity of capital punishment, criminologists found:

According to William Sheldon's classification system, people who were soft or fat belonged in which of the following groups?

Which of the following has been identified as one of the leading states in the number of executions carried out?

Which of the following statements about the effect of gender on criminal behavior is true?

Explain the core idea in and assess the effectiveness of biological approaches to explaining deviance.

While most states do not allow imprisoned felons to vote, _______ states bar ex-offenders who have fully served their sentences from voting throughout their lifetime.

__________ is an attempt to take revenge on the criminal and make punishment show society's anger about the crime.

Deviant subcultures are characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

Another term for the state of normlessness is:

The theories of Cesare Lombroso and William Sheldon belong to which of the following Approaches to explaining criminal behavior?

Distinguish between "deviance" and "deviants."

Once a person is labeled as deviant, the label becomes a justification for other forms of mistreatment.

Everyone who violates a social norm is a deviant.