Exam 6: Deviance

The _____ perspective on deviance has been criticized for its tendency to assume a conspiracy by the well-to-do and for proposing solutions that can only be achieved by completely changing our entire society.

One of the factors related to criminologist Jeffrey Reiman's statement,"Prison produces more criminals than it cures," is

Which of the following is NOT a strength of the conflict perspective on deviance?

One psychological theory is that deviants tend to be _____, who are asocial, aggressive, and impulsive.

What type of crime is defined very differently by order theorists and conflict theorists?

One classical biological explanation of deviance called _____ focused on the determination of character by facial features.

One danger of the system-blame orientation is that it

_____ is a strategy of leaving juvenile delinquents alone as much as possible rather than giving them a negative label.

The concept of _____ is the view that the poor are qualitatively different in values and lifestyles from the rest of society, and that these cultural differences explain continued poverty and deviance.

According to _____, deviance gives the nondeviants a sense of solidarity by reasserting the importance of the rule being violated.