Exam 7: Deviance

Radical nonintervention is a strategy of leaving juvenile delinquents alone as much as possible rather than ________ them through the criminal justice system.

________ is the illegal and/or socially harmful behaviors that result from deliberate decision making by corporate executives in accordance with the operative goals of their organizations.

Robert Merton developed the theory of differential association to explain the origins of deviance.

The individual-blamer would explain the high recidivism rate of criminals by

________ say society assigns a deviant status to individuals, which in turn dominates their identities and behaviors.

Deviance refers to

________ is the view that the poor are qualitatively different in values and lifestyles from the rest of society and that these cultural differences explain continued poverty and deviance.

Caesare Lombroso's biological theory of deviance has been substantially discredited.

________may be seen as a public, nonviolent breach of the law with the purpose of calling attention to unfair laws or practices..

The concept of cultural deprivation is a loaded ethnocentric term that implies inferiority of the group in question.

According to labeling theory, who gets labeled as a deviant is

Deviance is a property inherent in a particular kind of behavior.

The culture of poverty hypothesis offers valuable insights into white-collar crime.

________ point out that all views of rule violations have political implications.

Henry David Thoreau wrote about civil disobedience in an essay entitled "Resistance to Civil Government."

The data on capital punishment show that people from disadvantaged categories, such as racial minorities, the poor, and the illiterate, are disproportionately given the death penalty and disproportionately killed by the state.

According to order theorists, deviance ________.

Genetic anomalies such as the XYY chromosome in men have been connected to deviance.

Order theorists believe that deviance is an integral part of a healthy society and has positive consequences.

As a result of the person-blame approach, the authorities