Chapter 6 Study Guide
SOC 201A
Chapter 6
Study Guide
- deviance
- deviant subculture
- norm
- sanction
- positive formal sanction
- negative formal sanction
- positive informal sanction
- negative informal sanction
- laws
- crime
- biological view of deviance
- recent study that investigated whether a child’s propensity for aggression was linked to biological factors present at birth
- psychological view of deviance
- What do contemporary sociological theories about crime emphasize in their definitions of conformity and deviance?
- anomie
- functionalist theory of deviance
- According to Robert Merton, at a time when society as a whole is becoming more affluent, why do crime rates continue to rise?
- conformists
- innovators
- ritualists
- retreatists
- Albert Cohen
- Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin
- differential association theory
- control theory
- conflict theory
- labeling theory
- secondary deviance
- Critics argue that one of the drawbacks of using the Uniform Crime Reports to measure crime is what?
- National Crime Victimization Survey
- According to the textbook, violent crime is more common where?
- While the rate of violent crime has been declining in the United States since the 1990s, it is still relatively high in comparison to other industrialized countries. What is one reason often given to explain the relatively high violent crime rate?
- Who are more likely to be victims and perpetrators of crime?
- According to the textbook, at what age is a person most likely to be arrested for a crime?
- According to the textbook, why is there widespread panic about youth criminality?
- white-collar crime
- corporate crime
- organized crime
- Manuel Castells
- Countries with the highest incarceration rates
- The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
- Americans’ beliefs about capital punishment
- laws allowing capital punishment are compared internationally
- According to the textbook, the prison population has grown so much that what is being done to accommodate it?
- Devah Pager
- According to the textbook, a key reason that New York’s “stop and frisk” policy was banned by a federal judge was what?
- Punished, Victor Rios
- According to the textbook, police work traditionally consisted of controlling crime. Increasingly, however, police officers are more accurately described as what?
- broken windows theory
- community policing
- target hardening
- shaming
- impact of crime and incarceration in the United States