Exam 9: Deviance

A judge sentences a young man who has committed several crimes to counselling and places him in a supportive foster home. Which of the following concepts describes these efforts to prevent further wrongdoing?

The oldest justification for punishing an offender is

Explain the difference between primary and secondary deviance.

Both violent and property crimes peaked in Canada and the U.S. in the early 1990s.

Cesare Lombroso, an Italian physician and criminologist, claimed that most criminals were people who had been mistreated by society.

How do the media contribute to the public perception that any city is a dangerous place? Drawing on your knowledge of the Controversy and Debate Box titled Homicide in Toronto by Method and Region: Surprising Findings, discuss the city in which are you currently attending school in terms of how safe the city is and the role of the media in your perception.

The stigma of deviance can encourage an individual to engage in further deviance.

In general, people of higher social class position are less likely to be arrested for street crimes than people of lower class position.

Explain the value and also the limitations of biological and psychological explanations of crime. Expand the essay by explaining the strengths of a sociological approach to understanding crime.

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?

What is criminal recidivism?

The value of psychological theories of deviance is limited because

Walter Reckless and Simon Dinitz claimed that "good boys" have the ability to rein in deviant impulses. They called their analysis

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

An act of moral vengeance by which society makes an offender suffer as much as the suffering caused by the crime is referred to as

Cloward and Ohlin extended Merton's theory of deviance, stating that crime

What is the medicalization of deviance?

Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz charges that the label of "insanity" is widely applied to behaviour that is actually only "different."

Which of the following refers to the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf?

Edwin Lemert described "primary deviance" as