Question 1

Define due process, plea bargaining, and community-based corrections.

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Due process refers to the legal requirem...

Question 2

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

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A)  corporate crime
B)  organized crime
C)  victimless crime
D)  secondary deviance

Question 3

Corporate crime refers to stealing or other crimes that are committed against a corporation or other large business.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Using the terms in Robert Merton's strain theory, which of the following concepts correctly describes the behavior of a radical activist who rejects just about everything in the existing society in favor of some alternative system?

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A)  innovator
B)  ritualist
C)  retreatist
D)  rebel

Question 5

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

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A)  differential opportunity theory.
B)  containment theory.
C)  libido theory.
D)  differential association theory.

Question 6

What concept refers to the formal system that responds to alleged violations of the law using police, courts, and prison officials?

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A)  the normative system
B)  social control
C)  civil law
D)  the criminal justice system

Question 7

According to Elliot Currie, factors that explain the high crime rate in the United States by world standards include

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A)  our cultural homogeneity.
B)  a lack of interest in punishing offenders.
C)  the high level of immigration.
D)  our emphasis on individual economic success, which weakens the social fabric.

Question 8

Can you imagine a society without crime? What changes in our society would you imagine having to make in order to dramatically reduce the crime rate? Explain your position.

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It is difficult to imagine a society wit...

Question 9

Apply each of sociology's three theoretical approaches to the topic of deviance.What are the basic insights we gain from each theoretical approach?

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The three theoretical approaches in soci...

Question 10

Participating in the subculture that Elijah Anderson describes as "the code of the streets" raises the risk that young people will end up

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A)  conforming to conventional morality.
B)  doing better than their parents.
C)  having a career in law enforcement.
D)  in jail or worse.

Question 11

Using 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?

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A)  innovator
B)  ritualist
C)  retreatist
D)  rebel

Question 12

According to Elliot Currie, factors that explain the high crime rate in the United States by world standards include

Accepted Answer

A)  our cultural homogeneity.
B)  a lack of interest in punishing offenders.
C)  the high level of immigration.
D)  our emphasis on individual economic success, which weakens the social fabric.

Question 13

In legal terms, a crime is composed of which two components?

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A)  the act and criminal intent
B)  a criminal and a victim
C)  the act and the social harm
D)  the law and the violation

Question 14

Every society punishes offenders.Write an essay in which you explain four justifications for punishment.Point out how each justification has come to the forefront at different times in history and explain this pattern as best you can.What evidence is there that punishment actually accomplishes what we say it does?

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Every society punishes offenders for a v...

Question 15

In the United States, even though the crime rate has gone down in recent years, the number of people in prison has gone up.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

A hate crime is defined as

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A)  any crime against a person who is a minority.
B)  any crime involving anger or other powerful emotion.
C)  a criminal act motivated by race or other bias.
D)  any violation of antidiscrimination laws.

Question 17

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

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A)  deterrence.
B)  retribution.
C)  social protection.
D)  rehabilitation.

Question 18

Edwin Sutherland's differential association theory links deviance to

Accepted Answer

A)  how labeling someone as deviant can increase the deviant behavior.
B)  the amount of contact a person has with others who encourage or discourage conventional behavior.
C)  how well a person can contain deviant impulses.
D)  how others respond to the race, ethnicity, gender, and class of the individual.

Question 19

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

His friends begin to criticize Marco as a "juice-head," pushing him out of their social circle.Marco begins to drink even more, becomes bitter, and joins a new group of friends who also are heavy drinkers.According to Lemert, Marco's situation illustrates

Accepted Answer

A)  the onset of primary deviance.
B)  the onset of secondary deviance.
C)  the formation of a deviant subculture.
D)  the onset of retreatism.

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