Deviance

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Social Control theorists are most likely to ask which of the following questions? Why should someone commit a crime? Why someone doesn’t commit a crime? What is the meaning of crime? Where does crime occur most?

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Why someone doesn’t commit a crime?

Front

Followers of the __________ perspective argue that criminal laws do not exist for our good; rather, they exist to preserve the interests and power of specific groups.

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Conflict

Front

Gender inequality theories of crime support the notion that female crime __________ as gender inequality __________.

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Increases; increases

Front

Interactionists attempt to explain how deviance or criminal behavior:

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is learned through association with others.

Front

The majority of death penalty executions have occurred in the __________.

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South

Front

_____ is the violation of norms.

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Deviance

Front

_____ violate(s) rules that are written into law.

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Crime

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A group’s _____, or customary social arrangements, is brought about by norms.

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Social order

Front

Because deviance undermines predictability, a system of _____ was developed to enforce the norms.

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Social control

Front

The praise Ted received after his talk was an example of a

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Positive sanction