Exam 8: Social Class

Twelve-year-old Eric's parents highly reward the value of education and hard work.Over the summer,Eric tries drugs,begins drinking alcohol on weekends with his new friends,and begins shoplifting.How would Edwin Sutherland make sense of Eric's behaviour?

Feminist theorists feel that women who violate the law are not "criminal women" but "criminalized women."

According to social bond theory,the probability of deviant behaviour increases when a person becomes tied to a deviant subculture.

Your parents are upset about the new group of peers with whom you are spending time because they feel that this new group of friends is encouraging you to behave in inappropriate and deviant ways.Which of the theorists below developed the theory that best fits this scenario?

Which theory assumes that deviance is learned in interactions with people who have favourable attitudes toward crime?

What is political crime?

Which of the following statements best reflects the postmodern perspective on deviance?

What perspective would make the argument that prisons punish through technology?

In what way is strain theory useful for explaining upper-class deviance? Provide an example.

Health is an important correlate of crime.

One assumption behind Canada's penal system is that offenders should be restricted from committing further crimes.What principle does this illustrate?

The law divides crime into which of the following groups?

Discuss why people in positions of power maintain their advantage by using the law to protect their own interests.Provide a specific example.

Define deviance from a sociological perspective.Illustrate with examples the many forms that deviant activity can take.Explain why the concept of deviance is relative and ambiguous.

What theory by Travis Hirschi holds that the probability of deviant behaviour increases when a person's ties to society are weakened or broken?

Which of the following statements does NOT describe the relationship between race and crime?

Which of the following is a typical form of social control?

Discuss the difference between primary and secondary deviance.Provide an example.

Strain theory is based on what perspective?

In 2012,Indigenous people made up about 4 percent of the total population in Canada,but accounted for what percentage of admissions to provincial prisons and federal prisons,respectively?