Deck 9: C: Deviance

Question 1

In terms of racial/ethnic categories,most people arrested for a violent crime in Canada are _____.

A)white
B)Aboriginal
C)French
D)Chinese

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Both Albert Cohen and Walter Miller argue that deviance is most likely to arise among:

A)high-income males.
B)middle-class men and women.
C)low-income youths.
D)all class levels.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

According to Elliot Currie,factors that explain the high crime rate in the United States by world standards include:

A)our cultural homogeneity.
B)a lack of interest in punishing offenders.
C)the high level of immigration.
D)our emphasis on individual economic success,which weakens the social fabric.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The United States is the only western,high-income nation that routinely imposes the death penalty on convicted offenders.

Question 5

In Robert Merton's strain theory of deviance,which of the following concepts refers to the process of seeking conventional goals but rejecting the conventional means to achieve them?

A)innovation
B)ritualism
C)retreatism
D)rebellion

Question 6

The oldest justification for punishing an offender is:

A)deterrence.
B)retribution.
C)social protection.
D)rehabilitation.

Question 7

In legal terms,a crime is composed of which two components?

A)the act and criminal intent
B)a criminal and a victim
C)the act and the social harm
D)the law and the violation

Question 8

State four ways in which,according to Emile Durkheim,deviance is functional for society as a whole.

Question 9

The likelihood a person will be arrested for a street crime rises sharply:

A)during the late teenage years.
B)in the late twenties.
C)during the middle thirties.
D)over age forty.

Question 10

Biological factors,including genetics,explain most criminal behavior.