Exam 7: Deviance and Crime

Types of deviance and crime are classified according to several factors, including the severity of societal response.

Compare white-collar and street crimes and their respective harmfulness to society.What policies would you propose to control societal harm from these two types of crime?

What type of society do many sociologists believe Canadians now live in?

"No shirt, no shoes, no service." By instituting this policy, how do some shops and restaurants define being topless and barefoot?

Which of the following views of punishment is characterized by the idea that if criminals understand that they will lose their freedom if imprisoned, their involvement in criminal acts will cease?

How may legalization of abortion have influenced crime rates?

Is there a universal definition of deviance? Why or why not?

What function does a criminal subculture fulfil for its members?

Moral panics benefit nobody.

The response of society to crimes against women has changed substantially since the 1970s.Discuss and analyze these changes.

The Canadian Criminal Code recommends diversionary measures especially for Aboriginals.

Which of the following is the most frequently applied punishment in Canada today?

Conrad Black, a Canadian media mogul, was sentenced in 2007 to 6.5 years in a Florida prison for fraud totalling $2.9 million in misappropriated funds.Of what type of crime was he found guilty?

Nurul is from a poor home and dreams of becoming a doctor.She has excellent grades and wins a scholarship for university.However, in her undergraduate class, she becomes disillusioned with the medical profession and eventually concludes that medical practice is organized in a way that benefits doctors, rather than patients.She leaves university and founds a group dedicated to empowering patients.In strain theory terms, what is Nurul?

What do Guy Paul Morin, David Milgaard, and Donald Marshall have in common?

According to the textbook, increasing social control is tied to the growth of capitalism and which other historical change?

In monetary terms, which of the following types of crime likely costs society the most?

Which of the following age groups is most prone to committing crimes?

Glynnis watches Scott dump a day's worth of tree seedlings into a ravine instead of planting them.The company that employs Glynnis and Scott has a strict policy about this action, which is viewed as theft, so Glynnis tells the supervisor what she has witnessed.Scott is fired immediately.Which of the following did Scott receive?

Drug traffickers sometimes state in their defence that they do not force individuals to use illegal drugs.Which of the following types of crime do they thus claim to engage in?