Exam 8: Deviance and Social Control

Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, _____ of those put to death have been white and _____ have been African American.

A group's _____, or customary social arrangements, is brought about by norms.

In prison, _____ of inmates have less than a high-school education. In the U.S. population over 18 years of age, _____ of people have less than a high-school education.

Techniques of _____ are ways of thinking or rationalizing that help people deflect, or neutralize, society's norms.

_____ violate(s) rules that are written into law.

Executives who committed corporate crimes at Macy's, Sears, and Bloomingdales spent _____ in jail.

How do norms make a social life possible?

Executives who are responsible for harm caused by creating pollution, manipulating prices, or making unsafe products can usually

Give three ways that functionalists such as Durkheim say that deviance contributes to the social order.

Street crime refers to acts such as

What are the five techniques of neutralization given by Sykes and Matza (1957/1988)?

_____, the decision to arrest someone or even to ignore a matter, is a routine part of police work.

Edward Sutherland used the term _____ to indicate that people who associate with some groups learn an excess of definitions of deviance, increasing the likelihood that they will become deviant.

A _____ is committed by people of respectable and high social status in the course of their occupations.

_____ states that the labels people are given affect their own and others' perceptions of them, thus channeling their behavior into either deviance or conformity.