White-collar and corporate crimes______________? A. are committed by relatively affluent people often in the course of business activities B. are not very costly compared to the dollar cost of other crimes C. are crimes the average person is less likely…
Labeling theorists________________? A. focus on why individuals engage in deviant behavior B. contend that some acts such as rape are inherently criminal C. contend that labeling people as deviant has no effect on their behaviorD. contend that in many cases…
In order for a deviant act to be considered a crime______________? A. the state must undertake a political process of criminalizing it B. it must be committed by someone labelled a criminal C. it must involve the violation of a…
Conflict theorists_____________? A. emphasize that the values of society serve all members of society B. see the capitalist ruling class as protecting the massesC. argue that criminal acts are acts which the ruling class brands as criminal D. None of…
Fred is a intelligent student Last year he was on the honor roll This year he began hanging out with friends who spend more time playing video games than studying they routinely earn C, s and D, s Over time…
The social condition in which people find it difficult to guide their behavior by norms they experience as weak unclear or conflicting is called______________? A. social disorganizationB. anomie C. deviance D. none of the above
Functionalists view social control as_______________? A. operating to favor powerful groups at the expense of othersB. an indispensable functional requirement for social survival C. a source of social chaos D. both b and c
Deviance is dysfunctional in that it_______________? A. can impair and undermine organized social life B. increases our willingness to play our roles C. increases our willingness to contribute to the larger social enterprise D. enhances our trust of one another
The essential function of punishment in society is_______________? A. reform B. revengeC. affirmation of moral standards D. None of these
The term terrorism has its origins in_____________? A. the Roman EmpireB. Revolutionary France C. Nazi Germany D. the English Civil War