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5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Differential justice
- Differential association
- Formal social control
- Transnational crime
- Deviance
- a A theory of deviance that holds that violation of rules results from exposure to attitudes favorable to criminal acts
- b Differences in the way social control is exercised over different groups
- c social control that is carried out by authorized agents, such as police officers, judges, school administrators, and employers
- d Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society
- e crime that occurs across multiple national borders
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- the act of going along with peers-individuals of our own status who have no special right to direct our behavior
- governmental social control
- a questionnaire or interview given to a sample of the population to determine whether people have been victims of crimes
- the penalties and rewards we face for conduct concerning a social norm
- A theory that attributes increases in crime and deviance to the absense or breakdown of communal relationships and social institutions, such as the family, school, church, and local government
5 True/False Questions
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Obediance → Behavior that violates the standards of conduct or expectations of a group or society
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Societal-reaction approach → another name for the labeling theory
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Stigma → A label used to devalue members of certain social groups
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Index crimes → the eight types of crime reported annually by the FBI in the Uniform Crime Reports: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft.
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Victimless crime → the work of a group that regulates relations among criminal enterprises involved in illegal activities, including prostitution, gambling, and the smuggling and sale of illegal drugs
Regenerate Test