Y11 Live Lesson Introductory Quiz

What is the difference between crime and deviance?

• There is no difference - they are the same thing

• Crime is against norms, Deviance is against the law

• Crime is against the norms, Deviance is against norms

• Deviant behaviour is always criminal

Which agents of social control are formal social control?

• Friends, Police

• Police , Government

• Police, Religion

• Family, Government

A (a)   court deals with the most serious of crimes. These have a jury.

What are the three positive functions of crime according to functionalists?

• Reaffirming boundaries, Anomie, Social Cohesion

• Reaffirming boundaries, Social Cohesion, Correspondence principle

• Reaffirming boundaries, bringing about a change in values, Social Cohesion

• Anomie, Cohesion, Reaffirming Boundaries

According to Durkheim, one negative aspect of crime is being in A state of normlessness. This is called (a)  

Strain theory proposes that crime occurs when people can not achieve their goals in the normal way. There is a strain between their goals and their goals. This theory was proposed by who?

• Merton

• Durkheim

• Marx

• Cohen

Status frustration, a theory by Cohen, Proposes that young working class boys turn to crime because....

• They fail in education and look elsewhere for the status

• They develop a delinquent subculture with different values

• they want to take revenge on mainstream society

• All of the above

According to Miller, Boys have ______focal concerns that lead them to delinquency?

• 4

• 5

• 6

• 7

Which of the following is not a reason that Marxists give for working class people committing crime?

• rebellion against the structure of society - capitalism

• working class people are just born that way

• criminogenic capitalism

• Selective law enforcement

What is white collar/corporate crime?

• Crime committed by the rich

• Things like fraud and embezzlement, or negligence

• Done by big businesses

• All of the above