Exam 9: Deviance

According to Robert Merton's strain theory,how would you classify a low-paid,yet compulsively conforming bank teller who never seems to want to get ahead but never seems to do anything wrong?

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

In terms of racial categories,most people arrested for a violent crime in the United States are

Crime is only one category of deviance.

According to Durkheim,functions of deviance include

Alexander Liazos speaks for the social-conflict approach when he states that

Today in the United States,women are arrested for property crimes at the same rate as men are.

"Due process" means handling alleged offenders within the bounds of the law.

A judge orders that an offender be sentenced to prison for a time,with most of the sentence served on probation.This sentence reflects a policy called

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

The old saying,"An eye for an eye," expresses the idea underlying the policy of rehabilitation.

A poor person who has little chance to go to college and who sells illegal drugs to make money is one example of a deviant "innovator."

Feminist theory states that gender figures into the study of deviance because

What is considered deviant is mostly the same behavior all around the world.

Prostitution is widely regarded as a

Men,who represent about half the U.S.population,account for about _____ of all arrests for property crime.

According to the social-conflict approach,deviance has a number of functions for the operation of society as a whole.

Using a Marxist approach,Steven Spitzer claims that prime targets for deviant labeling include

Most criminal cases handled by the criminal justice system in the United States are resolved

Looking back in history,the oldest justification for punishing an offender is