Exam 7: Deviance

According to Durkheim, the true function of punishment is to prevent future crimes.

Social Darwinism is a theory that suggests ability and effort determine a placement in the stratification system.

According to __________, poor people are more likely to be arrested, to come to trial, to be found guilty, and to receive harsh punishment than middle- and upper-class people.

Victim blamers contend that characteristics of criminals account for the high rate of recidivism.

Edward Banfield argues that all theories that focus on the characteristics of the individual in explaining deviance are guilty of blaming the victim.

According to labeling theory, the behavior that occurs prior to labeling is called ________ .

Emile Durkheim is a/an ________ who proposed that deviance is a normal function of society.

Functional illiteracy can be linked strongly with crime, according to system-blamers.

A basic flaw with the approach to screening the population for presumed flaws is

________ holds that observations that society's underdogs engage in more deviance than their middle and upper class counterparts are invalid because the response of society to deviance is socially differentiated at every phase of the criminal justice system.

In conflict perspective, the bias of dominant norms preserves the status quo and the current distribution of power.

Treating the ________ as the source of deviance is the central thesis of biological, psychological, and some sociological theories.

In a heterogeneous society, what constitutes deviance

Explain labeling theory and discuss the strengths and the criticisms of it.

Discuss causes for people in the lower class being labeled criminal more often than middle- and upper-class people.

In Freudian theory, the deviant is a person who has not developed an adequate ______ to control the _______ .

A strength of the conflict perspective is the understanding that the powerful groups use the political order to protect everyone's interests equally.

Street crimes cause many times more economic damage and harm to people than do political and corporate crimes.

From differential association perspective, criminal orientations stem from poverty.

Cultural deprivation is an ethnocentric term implying that the culture of another group is deficient and inferior.