Chapter 7

Question 1

Medicalization of deviance

Answer 1

Explanations of deviant behavior that interpret deviance as the result of individual pathology or sickness

Question 2

Index crimes

Answer 2

The FBI’s tallying of violent crimes of murder or manslaughter, rape, robbery, aggravated assault plus property crimes.

Question 3

Ponzi scheme

Answer 3

A criminal method of using new investors funds to the original investors under the guise that you invested in stocks and bonds.

Question 4

Racial profiling

Answer 4

The use of race alone is a criteria for deciding whether to stop and detain someone on suspicion of having committed a crime.

Question 5

Social control theory

Answer 5

Theory that explains deviance as the result of the weakening of social bonds.

Question 6

Labeling theory

Answer 6

A theory that interprets the responses of others is most significant in understanding deviant behavior.

Question 7

Anomie

Answer 7

The condition existing with social regulations/norms in a society breakdown.

Question 8

Hate Crimes

Answer 8

Assaults and other malicious acts(including crimes against property) motivated by various forms of bias, including that based on race, religion, and sexual orientation, ethnic and national origin, or disability.

Question 9

Master status

Answer 9

Some characteristics of a person that overrides all other features of the person’s identity.

Question 10

Elite deviance

Answer 10

The wrongdoing of powerful individuals and organizations.

Question 11

Crime

Answer 11

One form of deviance; specifically, behavior that violates criminal laws.

Question 12

Anomic suicide

Answer 12

The type of suicide occurring when there are disintegrating forces in the society that make the visuals feel lost or long.

Question 13

Deviant career

Answer 13

Continuing to be labeled as deviant even after the initial (primary) deviance may have ceased.

Question 14

Organized crime

Answer 14

Crime committed by organized groups, typically involving the illegal provision of goods and services to others.

Question 15

Egoistic suicide

Answer 15

The type of suicide that occurs in people feel totally detached from society.

Question 16

Property crimes

Answer 16

Crimes involving theft of or harm to property without bodily harm to the victim.

Question 17

Altruistic suicide

Answer 17

The type of suicide that can occur when there is excessive regulation of individuals by social forces.

Question 18

Differential Association theory

Answer 18

Theory that interprets deviance is behavior one learns through interaction with others.

Question 19

Structural string theory

Answer 19

A theory that interprets deviance is originating in the tensions that exist in society between cultural goals and the mean people have to achieve those goals

Question 20

Cyber terrorism

Answer 20

The use of the computer to commit one or more terrorist acts.

Question 21

Deviant community

Answer 21

Groups that are organized around particular forms of social deviance.

Question 22

Hate crime

Answer 22

Salt and other malicious acts motivated by various forms of bias, including that based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.

Question 23

Criminology

Answer 23

The study of crime from a scientific perspective.

Question 24

Deviance

Answer 24

Behavior that is recognized as violating expected rules and norms.

Question 25

Stigma

Answer 25

An attribute that is socially devalued and discredited.

Question 26

Victim-less crimes

Answer 26

Violations of law not listed in the FBI’s serious crime index, such as gambling or prostitution.

Question 27

Bioterrorism

Answer 27

A form of terrorism involving the dispersion of chemical or biological substances intended to cause widespread disease and death.

Question 28

Deviant career

Answer 28

Continuing to be labeled as deviant even after the initial deviance may have ceased.

Question 29

Deviant identity

Answer 29

The definition a person has of himself or herself as a deviant.

Question 30

Bioterrorism

Answer 30

A form of terrorism involving the dispersion of chemical or biological substances intended to cause widespread disease and death.

Question 31

Deviant identity

Answer 31

The definition a person has of himself or herself as a deviant.

Question 32

Personal crimes

Answer 32

Violent or nonviolent crimes directed against people

Question 33

Structural strain theory

Answer 33

A theory that interprets deviance as originating in the tensions that exist in society between cultural goals and the means people have to achieve those goals.