Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A) a poor person whose friends do not commit crime 
B) a middle-class person whose friends frequently commit crime 
C) a person with high aspirations but few opportunities 
D) a person with low aspirations but many opportunities 
E) a person who has been labeled a delinquent 
A) a poor person whose friends do not commit crime 
B) a middle-class person whose friends frequently commit crime 
C) a person with high aspirations but few opportunities 
D) a person with low aspirations but many opportunities 
E) a person who has been labeled a delinquent

Question 2

How is it possible that a person can be both a conformist and a deviant? Explain using examples.

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To answer this question,the student must

Question 3

How does Robert Merton explain crime? How would Merton explain the crimes committed in the inner city?

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To answer this question,the student must

Question 4

A concept brought into wide usage in sociology by Émile Durkheim,__________ refers to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior.

Accepted Answer

A) egoism 
B) altruism 
C) fatalism 
D) anomie 
E) postmodernism 
A) egoism 
B) altruism 
C) fatalism 
D) anomie 
E) postmodernism

Question 5

Violent crime is more common:

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A) in suburbs than in cities or small towns 
B) in small towns than in cities or suburbs 
C) today than in the early 1990s 
D) in the United States than in Switzerland 
E) in countries where handguns and other firearms are banned 
A) in suburbs than in cities or small towns 
B) in small towns than in cities or suburbs 
C) today than in the early 1990s 
D) in the United States than in Switzerland 
E) in countries where handguns and other firearms are banned

Question 6

Which of the following best illustrates community policing?

Accepted Answer

A) taking seriously even minor crimes such as public drunkenness 
B) community organizations, government agencies, and businesses working together to help repair urban decay 
C) the installation of burglar alarms 
D) public shaming of offenders 
E) enacting get-tough-on-crime laws 
A) taking seriously even minor crimes such as public drunkenness 
B) community organizations, government agencies, and businesses working together to help repair urban decay 
C) the installation of burglar alarms 
D) public shaming of offenders 
E) enacting get-tough-on-crime laws

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A) Both are religious groups. 
B) Both groups believed that the end of the world is near. 
C) Both groups struggled financially. 
D) Both groups restricted their membership to men. 
E) Both groups are considered deviant subcultures. 
A) Both are religious groups. 
B) Both groups believed that the end of the world is near. 
C) Both groups struggled financially. 
D) Both groups restricted their membership to men. 
E) Both groups are considered deviant subcultures.

Question 8

A renewed emphasis on crime prevention rather than law enforcement to reintegrate policing within the community is called:

Accepted Answer

A) organized policing 
B) corporate policing 
C) community policing 
D) target hardening 
E) shaming 
A) organized policing 
B) corporate policing 
C) community policing 
D) target hardening 
E) shaming

Question 9

Forms of activity that have some of the characteristics of orthodox business but are illegal are called:

Accepted Answer

A) white-collar crime 
B) corporate crime 
C) index crime 
D) organized crime 
E) bureaucratic crime 
A) white-collar crime 
B) corporate crime 
C) index crime 
D) organized crime 
E) bureaucratic crime

Question 10

An experiment by sociologist Devah Pager showed that __________ is least likely to be hired.

Accepted Answer

A) a white man with no criminal record 
B) a white man with a criminal record 
C) a black man with no criminal record 
D) a black man with a criminal record 
E) none of the above; there was no difference among the four groups 
A) a white man with no criminal record 
B) a white man with a criminal record 
C) a black man with no criminal record 
D) a black man with a criminal record 
E) none of the above; there was no difference among the four groups

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT an example of corporate crime?

Accepted Answer

A) A pesticide company dumps pollutants into the local river. 
B) A food manufacturer puts false nutrition information on its product labels. 
C) An automobile company manufactures and knowingly sells an SUV that rolls over easily. 
D) Corporate executives lie about their company's profits. 
E) An organized crime group engages in sex trafficking. 
A) A pesticide company dumps pollutants into the local river. 
B) A food manufacturer puts false nutrition information on its product labels. 
C) An automobile company manufactures and knowingly sells an SUV that rolls over easily. 
D) Corporate executives lie about their company's profits. 
E) An organized crime group engages in sex trafficking.

Question 12

From the perspective of the new criminology,laws:

Accepted Answer

A) are neutral 
B) are applied evenly across the population 
C) are used by the powerful to maintain their own privileged positions 
D) protect the working class from being exploited by the capitalist elite 
E) are social constructions that emerge through democratic processes 
A) are neutral 
B) are applied evenly across the population 
C) are used by the powerful to maintain their own privileged positions 
D) protect the working class from being exploited by the capitalist elite 
E) are social constructions that emerge through democratic processes

Question 13

Which of the following statements about prisons is true?

Accepted Answer

A) The cost to keep a prisoner in the federal prison system for one is year is very low, about $6,000 per year. 
B) Spending time in prison makes it unlikely that the ex-felon will ever commit another crime. 
C) Spending time in prison often makes the ex-felon a more hardened criminal. 
D) The average convict serves most of his sentence. 
E) Most African American men are either in prison or otherwise under the control of the penal system. 
A) The cost to keep a prisoner in the federal prison system for one is year is very low, about $6,000 per year. 
B) Spending time in prison makes it unlikely that the ex-felon will ever commit another crime. 
C) Spending time in prison often makes the ex-felon a more hardened criminal. 
D) The average convict serves most of his sentence. 
E) Most African American men are either in prison or otherwise under the control of the penal system.

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A) The majority of Americans have always supported capital punishment. 
B) The majority of Americans have always opposed capital punishment. 
C) Most adults supported capital punishment in 2010. 
D) Most adults supported capital punishment in 1965. 
E) Fewer Americans support capital punishment today than a generation ago. 
A) The majority of Americans have always supported capital punishment. 
B) The majority of Americans have always opposed capital punishment. 
C) Most adults supported capital punishment in 2010. 
D) Most adults supported capital punishment in 1965. 
E) Fewer Americans support capital punishment today than a generation ago.

Question 15

Which of the following statements is NOT reflective of control theory?

Accepted Answer

A) You have a strong attachment to friends who value good grades and hard work, therefore you value good grades and hard work. 
B) You are a high school dropout, so you have little to lose by being arrested. 
C) School and work keep you constantly busy, so you have little time to spend engaged in deviant activities. 
D) You believe in honesty and hard work. 
E) You engage in deviance as a political act. 
A) You have a strong attachment to friends who value good grades and hard work, therefore you value good grades and hard work. 
B) You are a high school dropout, so you have little to lose by being arrested. 
C) School and work keep you constantly busy, so you have little time to spend engaged in deviant activities. 
D) You believe in honesty and hard work. 
E) You engage in deviance as a political act.

Question 16

Which theory served as the basis for new policing strategies in the late 1980s and 1990s that aggressively focused on minor crimes such as traffic violations and drinking and using drugs in public?

Accepted Answer

A) control theory 
B) broken windows theory 
C) conflict theory 
D) differential association theory 
E) labeling theory 
A) control theory 
B) broken windows theory 
C) conflict theory 
D) differential association theory 
E) labeling theory

Question 17

Which of the following is an example of organized crime described by Manuel Castells?

Accepted Answer

A) Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme 
B) heroin networks that stretch across Asia 
C) prison gangs 
D) inner-city youth gangs 
E) trainers who provide athletes with steroids 
A) Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme 
B) heroin networks that stretch across Asia 
C) prison gangs 
D) inner-city youth gangs 
E) trainers who provide athletes with steroids

Question 18

Which of the following statements concerning white-collar crime is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A) The amount of money involved in crimes against property (robberies, burglaries, larceny, forgeries, and car thefts) is forty times greater than the amount involved in white-collar crimes. 
B) Authorities regard white-collar crime in a more tolerant light than crimes of the less privileged. 
C) Rarely do people caught committing white-collar crime go to jail. 
D) The manufacture or sale of dangerous products is a type of white-collar crime. 
E) Illegal environmental pollution is a type of white-collar crime. 
A) The amount of money involved in crimes against property (robberies, burglaries, larceny, forgeries, and car thefts) is forty times greater than the amount involved in white-collar crimes. 
B) Authorities regard white-collar crime in a more tolerant light than crimes of the less privileged. 
C) Rarely do people caught committing white-collar crime go to jail. 
D) The manufacture or sale of dangerous products is a type of white-collar crime. 
E) Illegal environmental pollution is a type of white-collar crime.

Question 19

Fifteen-year-old Diego is arrested and spends thirty days in juvenile detention.He begins to see himself as a delinquent while there.When he is released,he commits more crimes.The crimes that he commits after being released would be considered by Edwin Lemert as:

Accepted Answer

A) primary deviance 
B) secondary deviance 
C) tertiary deviance 
D) anomic deviance 
E) structural strain deviance 
A) primary deviance 
B) secondary deviance 
C) tertiary deviance 
D) anomic deviance 
E) structural strain deviance

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

A) anomie 
B) alienation 
C) conformity 
D) social construction 
E) deviance 
A) anomie 
B) alienation 
C) conformity 
D) social construction 
E) deviance

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

How is it possible that a person can be both a conformist and a deviant? Explain using examples.

How does Robert Merton explain crime? How would Merton explain the crimes committed in the inner city?

A concept brought into wide usage in sociology by Émile Durkheim,__________ refers to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior.

Violent crime is more common:

Which of the following best illustrates community policing?

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

A renewed emphasis on crime prevention rather than law enforcement to reintegrate policing within the community is called:

Forms of activity that have some of the characteristics of orthodox business but are illegal are called:

An experiment by sociologist Devah Pager showed that __________ is least likely to be hired.

Which of the following is NOT an example of corporate crime?

From the perspective of the new criminology,laws:

Which of the following statements about prisons is true?

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

Which of the following statements is NOT reflective of control theory?

Which theory served as the basis for new policing strategies in the late 1980s and 1990s that aggressively focused on minor crimes such as traffic violations and drinking and using drugs in public?

Which of the following is an example of organized crime described by Manuel Castells?

Which of the following statements concerning white-collar crime is NOT true?

Fifteen-year-old Diego is arrested and spends thirty days in juvenile detention.He begins to see himself as a delinquent while there.When he is released,he commits more crimes.The crimes that he commits after being released would be considered by Edwin Lemert as:

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

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Exam 6: Conformity, Deviance, and Crime

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

How is it possible that a person can be both a conformist and a deviant? Explain using examples.

How does Robert Merton explain crime? How would Merton explain the crimes committed in the inner city?

A concept brought into wide usage in sociology by Émile Durkheim,__________ refers to a situation in which social norms lose their hold over individual behavior.

Violent crime is more common:

Which of the following best illustrates community policing?

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

A renewed emphasis on crime prevention rather than law enforcement to reintegrate policing within the community is called:

Forms of activity that have some of the characteristics of orthodox business but are illegal are called:

An experiment by sociologist Devah Pager showed that __________ is least likely to be hired.

Which of the following is NOT an example of corporate crime?

From the perspective of the new criminology,laws:

Which of the following statements about prisons is true?

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

Which of the following statements is NOT reflective of control theory?

Which theory served as the basis for new policing strategies in the late 1980s and 1990s that aggressively focused on minor crimes such as traffic violations and drinking and using drugs in public?

Which of the following is an example of organized crime described by Manuel Castells?

Which of the following statements concerning white-collar crime is NOT true?

Fifteen-year-old Diego is arrested and spends thirty days in juvenile detention.He begins to see himself as a delinquent while there.When he is released,he commits more crimes.The crimes that he commits after being released would be considered by Edwin Lemert as:

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

Sociology: Theory and Method

Culture and Society

Socialization, the Life Course, and Aging

Social Interaction and Everyday Life in the Age of the Internet

Groups, Networks, and Organizations

Stratification, Class, and Inequality

Global Inequality

Gender Inequality

Ethnicity and Race

Families and Intimate Relationships

Education and Religion

Politics and Economic Life

The Sociology of the Body: Health, Illness, and Sexuality

Urbanization, Population, and the Environment

Globalization in a Changing World

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