Social Control

A. are committed by relatively affluent people often in the course of business activities
B. are not very costly compared to the dollar cost of other crimes
C. are crimes the average person is less likely to experience than street crime
D. usually result in severe punishment for those who are caught

A. focus on why individuals engage in deviant behavior
B. contend that some acts such as rape are inherently criminal
C. contend that labeling people as deviant has no effect on their behavior
D. contend that in many cases those labeled deviant identity and pursue a career of deviance

A. the state must undertake a political process of criminalizing it
B. it must be committed by someone labelled a criminal
C. it must involve the violation of a person or property
D. the majority of the population must consider the act criminal

A. emphasize that the values of society serve all members of society
B. see the capitalist ruling class as protecting the masses
C. argue that criminal acts are acts which the ruling class brands as criminal
D. None of the above reflects the thinking of conflict theorists

A. structural strain theory
B. social control theory
C. differential association theory
D. Each of these theories explains the situation equally well

A. social disorganization
B. anomie
C. deviance
D. none of the above

A. operating to favor powerful groups at the expense of others
B. an indispensable functional requirement for social survival
C. a source of social chaos
D. both b and c

A. can impair and undermine organized social life
B. increases our willingness to play our roles
C. increases our willingness to contribute to the larger social enterprise
D. enhances our trust of one another

A. reform
B. revenge
C. affirmation of moral standards
D. None of these

A. the Roman Empire
B. Revolutionary France
C. Nazi Germany
D. the English Civil War