Ch 16 Crime And Social Deviance

Question 0

*What is crime?

Answer 0

social behaviour designated by the law as criminal, and subject to penal sanction

Question 1

*What is social deviance?

Answer 1

any behaviour that that violates social norms or rules, regardless of seriousness.

Question 2

*Is all crime deviant?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

*Is all deviance crime?

Answer 3

No

Question 4

*Does deviance always promote social unity?

Answer 4

Not always. Yes if everyone is afraid of crime,people will stay away from it. But not because if you live in a crime ridden community, you wouldn’t know your neighbours, because you don’t go outside,so you don’t trust them.

Question 5

*According to the Functionalist perspective does deviance create social unity?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

*What do functionalists believe about social deviance? (Or consensus perspective)

Answer 6

That it is essential and Deviance Encourages social change and promotes unity, and clarifies mores, values and norms.

Question 7

How do biologists explain deviant behaviour?

Answer 7

Looking for reasons within the individual like genetic predisposition

Question 8

How do psychologists explain behaviour?

Answer 8

They look for reasons within the individual. Eg. Personality disorders

Question 9

How do sociologists explain behaviour?

Answer 9

They look for explanations outside the individual

Question 10

What is the functionalist perspective of social deviance?

Answer 10

People learn to deviate from associating with others

Question 11

What are the 5 techniques of neutralization according to the symbolic interactionist perspective?

Answer 11

Denial of responsibility
Denial of injury
Denial of victim
Condemnation of the condemners
Appeal to higher loyalties

Question 12

What is primary social deviance?

Answer 12

The acts are fleeting and have little effect on ones self concept

Question 13

What is secondary social deviance?

Answer 13

People incorporate into their self concept, social deviance

Question 14

What is tertiary social deviance?

Answer 14

Acts considered socially deviant are relabelled as normal

Question 15

Give an example of tertiary social deviance

Answer 15

Prostitutes relabelling themselves as sex workers

Question 16

Give an example of secondary social deviants

Answer 16

Women who have been in the industry for a while and now call themselves prostitutes

Question 17

What is the functionalist perspective of social deviance?

Answer 17

Social deviance is essential for society

Question 18

According to the functionalist perspective, social deviance is essential for society.. Why?

Answer 18

It encourages social unity, promotes social change, and affirming norms

Question 19

What is the strain theory?

Answer 19

Societies socialize their members no desiring cultural goas, but many are unable to achieve them in socially acceptable ways, so then people use social deviant ways to achieve them.

Question 20

What are Merton’s 5 types of responses to social goals?

Answer 20

Conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism, and rebellion

Question 21

What is retreatism?

Answer 21

People who reject both the goals and the right way of doing things.

Question 22

What is ritualism?

Answer 22

When someone rejects, but still wants the goals of society, but still adheres to the ‘right way’ of achieving the goals

Question 23

What is rebellion?

Answer 23

People who reject and replace both goals and rules for achieving them, eg. Moving to a monestary

Question 24

What is the conflict perspective in terms of social deviance?

Answer 24

The criminal justice system and laws represent the interests of the wealthy and powerful. Anything that is seen as a threat to the powerful is bad.

Question 25

What is the feminist perspective when it comes to social deviance?

Answer 25

Men abuse women to maintain power

Question 26

What are the 5 measures of control over women according to the feminist perspective?

Answer 26

Sexual fidelity, obedience, respect, loyalty, dependency, and secular access

Question 27

What is the postmodern theory of social deviance?

Answer 27

We need to deconstruct the meaning of concepts such as law and order and criminal justice system.

Question 28

What are 4 things that can be done about male violence against women?

Answer 28

Training the police to identify and charge offenders
Good job creation strategies
Social services such as shelters Andy co-op homes
Anti sexist male collectives

Question 29

What are the main components of the Canadian criminal justice system?

Answer 29

The courts, police, and the correction system

Question 30

How would feminists explain social deviance?

Answer 30

Patriarchy and gender discrimination are used to explain women’s criminal activities.

Question 31

Who believes that law and order needs to be looked at further and deconstructed?

Answer 31

Postmodernism

Question 32

Define three things that effect crime stats

Answer 32

Unreported crimes
Social class background
And police discretion

Question 33

What does Dr. Thomas Szasz have to say about the medicalization of social deviance?

Answer 33

Argues that mental illness mess are neither mental nor illnesses; they are just problem behaviours

Question 34

Who used the term stigma to refer to attributes that discredit people?

Answer 34

Goffman

Question 35

Who coined the term differential association and what does it mean?

Answer 35

Sutherland, learning to deviate or to conform to societies norms is influenced by most people we associate with

Question 36

What is a white collar crime?

Answer 36

Crimes that people of high social status commit

Question 37

What year was the young offenders act changed to the youth criminal justice act?

Answer 37

2003