Unit 6

Question 1

define crime

Answer 1

breaking the law

Question 2

define deviance

Answer 2

violating norms

Question 3

define moral panic

Answer 3

exaggerated reaction

Question 4

define relative deprivation

Answer 4

less in comparison

Question 5

types of social control/conformity

Answer 5

formal (policy - penil syste/prison)

informal (ridicule)

Question 6

Parts of official crime %

Answer 6

dark figure (rape unreported)
surveillance
self report
corporate C.

Question 7

types of crime

Answer 7

middle
international
working

Question 8

Why do genders do crime

Answer 8

Female:
Rape and evade prositution presecution

Male:
assert masculinity
support family

Question 9

Sociologists

Answer 9

Stuart hall - moral panic leads to more arrests

robert k merton (functionalist) - obtaining goods
albert cohan (functionalist) - out of frustratio

Question 10

define anomie

Answer 10

shared value (system broken - durkheim)

Question 11

define cyber crime

Answer 11

illegal activity online such as selling drugs

Question 12

community service

Answer 12

less jail time for helping the community

Question 13

define ostracism

Answer 13

exclusion from a society or group

Question 14

define judicial system

Answer 14

court appeal

Question 15

define incapacitation

Answer 15

jail

Question 16

Propoerties of crime

Answer 16

Poor poverty = deviant behaviour
cohab increase, marriage decrease

Question 17

Marxist views on crime

Answer 17

reflects ruling class interests such as capitalism

working class SCAPEGOATED

Question 18

define deviant career path

Answer 18

deviance leads to more deviance

Question 19

sociologist howard becker

Answer 19

Deviancy is not a quality of the act a person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules and sanctions to an ‘offender’

Question 20

inadequate socialization

Answer 20

not enough socializing during young years