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Chapter 3 Practice Quiz
Deviance, Law, and Crime
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What is deviance?
Any act that fails to break an accepted social standard from minor misdeeds to serious crimes
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Any act that breaks an accepted social standard from minor misdeeds to serious crimes
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Any act that is always unusual
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Any act that reproduces an accepted social standard from minor misdeeds to serious crimes
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With labelling theory, it is important to differentiate between which two types of deviance?
Prime and certain acts of deviance
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Criminal and non-criminal acts of deviance
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Primary and secondary acts of deviance
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Criminal and primary acts of deviance
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Minor acts of deviance are defined as which of the following?
Crimes against one person
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Deviant acts that cause minor harm
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Crimes that cause minor harm
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Not crimes and generally not seen as harmful
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The experiments of Milgram and Zimbardo were controversial, but they highlighted which important fact in the study of criminal and deviant behaviour?
How social settings fail to impact deviant or criminal behaviour
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How crime is related to individual decision making
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How criminal behaviour is directly related to social settings
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How deviant behaviours are more likely and more severe in certain social settings
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Social constructionists would argue which of the following?
All knowledge is created and maintained by social interactions.
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All knowledge is constructed by the social structure.
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All knowledge is created by sociologists.
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All knowledge is constructed on the fringes of society.
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Which theory of deviant and criminal behaviour did Travis Hirschi develop?
Control theory
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Labelling theory
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Learning theory
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Strain theory
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What are the two steps to the process of social construction, according to Berger and Luckmann?
People forget their experiences and they forget the inevitable social origin of their ideas.
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People categorize experiences and then act on this information, and they forget the inevitable social origin of their categories.
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People categorize experiences and then act on this information, as they remember the inevitable social origin of their categories.
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People fail to categorize their experiences, but they remember the social origin of other categories.
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Which function of punishment is based on the idea that a punishment should be comparable to the suffering caused by the crime?
Restoration
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Rehabilitation
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Deterrence
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Retribution
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Labelling theory explains how labelling people as a criminal or deviant can produce which of the following?
Strain
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A self-fulfilling prophecy
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Weak social control
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Rejection of cultural goals
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Which acts are illegal, perceived to be very harmful, and have a high level of public agreement?
Consensus crimes
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White-collar crimes
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General deviance
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Minor deviances
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Many deviant acts break norms but are not punishable by the state.
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The Canada Youth Criminal Justice Act recognizes the importance of labelling because it makes it illegal to publish the identity of a young offender.
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Consensus crimes are criminal in nature, but include only minor violations such as speeding and petty theft.
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White-collar crime often occurs outside of work settings.
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Specific deterrence aims to make an example out of deviants to deter others from committing crimes.
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Being labelled criminal or deviant can create a criminal or deviant identity for someone in their youth.
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Berger and Luckmann argue that we learn about the internalized, predefined worlds of individuals by understanding how individuals interacted with socializing agents such as parents.
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According to the labelling theory, when an individual is not caught by the police but is still labelled as deviant or criminal, they are viewed by others as criminals or deviants.
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Youth crimes are usually acts of primary deviance and tend to be of low severity.
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Most of the theories sociologists use to explain deviant behaviour are based on broader social explanations for this behaviour.
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