Deviance And Crime

Question 1

What is deviance?

Answer 1

Deviance is the violation of norms that a society agrees upon

Question 2

Name four characteristics of deviance

Answer 2

• deviance is linked to time
• deviance is linked to cultural values
• deviance is a cultural universal
• deviance is a social construct

Question 3

Define crime

Answer 3

Crime is an act that violates criminal law and is punishable with fines, jail fine and other sanctions

Question 4

Define social control

Answer 4

Systematic practices develppped by social groups to encourage conformity and to discourage deviance.

Question 5

What are the 3 interacting variables in john hagan’s typology of deviance and crime ?

Answer 5

• evaluation of harm
• agreement about the norm
• severity of societal response

Question 6

In what category do murder, rape and robbery fit into?

Answer 6

Consensus crimes

Question 7

In what category do pornographers, prostitution and illegal drug use fall into?

Answer 7

Conflict crimes

Question 8

In what category does alcoholism and mental illness fall into?

Answer 8

Social deviations

Question 9

In what category do body piercings and cross dressing fall under?

Answer 9

Social diversions

Question 10

What are the basic assumptions in consensus?

Answer 10

1 people agree on what is repugnant
2 the law is fair and impartial
3 people are treated fairly under the law
4 consensus view points predominate in North America criminology

Question 11

What are the basic assumptions in conflict ?

Answer 11

Laws reflect the power and economic structure of society

Focus should be on the crimes of the rich and powerful.

Question 12

What are the basic assumptions under the interactionist?

Answer 12

Laws are constantly changing

Being labelled deviant may promote further deviance

Focus is on the process of deviance and changing definitions.

Question 13

What is the conflict view?

Answer 13

Law is a tool for ruling
Crime is politically defined
Real crimes are not defined
Law controls the underclass

Question 14

What is the consensus view ?

Answer 14

Law defines crime
Agreement exists
Laws apply to all

Question 15

What is the interactionist view

Answer 15

Moral entrepreneurs define crime
Crimes are socially defined
Labels transform lives

Question 16

What iscriminology?

Answer 16

The body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. Includes the process of making laws of breaking laws and of reacting to the breaking of laws. The objective of criminology is the development of a body of general and verified principles and other types of knowledge regarding this process of law crimes and treatememt

Question 17

Describe criminology in theee statements

Answer 17

Studies criminal behaviour
Usua methods of established social science
Is interdisciplinary

Question 18

Name the six codes of law mentioned on the development of law.

Answer 18

Code of hammourabi
Early roman law 
Common law 
Magma carta
The Canadian constitution 
Natural law

Question 19

What is the general purpose of the law?

Answer 19

Channels and constraints human behaviour

Regulates the flow of human interaction

Maintains values and upholds establishes patterns of social privilege

Supports social order

Question 20

What is the purpose of the law in social engineering ?

Answer 20

Roscoe pounds Kursk postulates states that laws are the product of shared social needs experiences by the majority of members in the society when they arise

Question 21

What is the purpose of the law in social conflict ?

Answer 21

Law is the fool of powerful individuals and groups acting in their own interest.

Question 22

Define public law

Answer 22

That area of law that regulates the functioning of the state and the relationship between the state and the individuals in society

Question 23

Define constitutional law

Answer 23

The branch of law that outlines the obligations and practices of the various levels of government and the rights of the individual as against the government

Question 24

Define criminal law

Answer 24

The branch of modern law which concerns itself with offences committed against society members thereof, their property and the social order.

Question 25

Define private law

Answer 25

That portion of modern law that regulates contracts and other obligations involving primarily personal interest.

Question 26

Key points of criminal law (6)

Answer 26

• public offence
• may result in fines and improsonment
• the govt imitates action
• govt does not appeal
• fines go to the state
• guilt must be beyond a reasonable doubt

Question 27

Key points of private law

Answer 27

• private wrong
• financial compensation only
• victim initiates action
• both parties may appeal
• victim receives compensation
• guild is based on balance of probabilities