Exam 7: Deviance

Albert Cohen suggested that lower-class youths form a delinquent subculture to gain the self-respect that society denies them.

The concept criminal recidivism refers to

Edwin Lemert described "primary deviance" as

The formal system that responds to alleged violations of the law using police, courts, and prison officials is called

In Robert Merton's strain theory of deviance, ___________ refers to the process of seeking conventional goals but rejecting the conventional means to achieve them.

Corporate crime refers to stealing or other crimes that are committed against a corporation or other large business.

Criminal statistics gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation reflect

The likelihood a person will be arrested for a street crime rises sharply

Robert Merton claimed that the "strains of masculinity" are an important cause of crime.

Crime committed by persons of high social position during the course of their occupations is called

Prostitution is widely regarded as a

Crime is only one category of deviance.

Cesare Lombroso, an Italian physician and criminologist, claimed that most criminals were people who had been mistreated by society.

According to the social-conflict approach, deviance has a number of functions for the operation of society as a whole.

Travis Hirschi's control theory suggests that the category of people most likely to engage in deviance is

Feminist theory claims that women, compared to men, are subject to greater social control.

Of all the property crimes discussed in the CHAPTER, one occurs far more than all the others.Which one is it?

The United States is the only western, high-income nation that routinely imposes the death penalty on convicted offenders.

Looking back in history, the oldest justification for punishing an offender is

Research suggests that, with regard to social class, arrest for serious crime