Exam 6: Conformity, Deviance, and Crime

Which theory best explains why a neighborhood that had only minor problems, such as abandoned cars and graffiti, began to see an increase in other more serious types of property crime?

Which of the following best describes Americans' beliefs about capital punishment?

According to the textbook, at what age is a person most likely to be arrested for a crime?

What do the Heaven's Gate cult and the computer hacker community have in common?

Comparing biological and psychological approaches to criminality, a sociologist would argue that they both:

A way of punishing criminal and deviant behavior based on rituals of public disapproval rather than incarceration is called:

Why have efforts to significantly decrease the supply of illegal drugs in the United States failed?

Which researcher found that boys in the lower working class who are frustrated with their positions in life often join delinquent subcultures that reject middle-class values and replace them with norms that celebrate defiance?

According to differential association theory, who is more likely to be a delinquent?

________ are norms governments define as principles that their citizens must follow; a ________ is any type of behavior that violates these norms.

Which statement concerning deviance is true?

According to the textbook, why is there widespread panic about youth criminality?

According to the textbook, police work traditionally consisted of controlling crime. Increasingly, however, police officers are more accurately described as:

Which of the following countries has the highest incarceration rate?

In Robert Merton's typology, the majority of people in society are:

What do contemporary sociological theories about crime emphasize in their definitions of conformity and deviance?

According to the textbook, a key reason that New York's "stop and frisk" policy was banned by a federal judge was that:

Boys who live in a disadvantaged community can become frustrated with their prospects for material success. Of the possible responses to this frustration that are listed below, which fits most closely with the work of Albert Cohen?

The term used to describe modes of action that do not conform to the norms or values most members of a group or society hold is:

Which theory proposes that we become deviant when exposed to a higher level of deviant people and influences, compared with conventional influences?