Deviance and Crime

The violation of norms (rules and expectations) is called

• Crime

• Deviance

• Stigma

• Taboo

"Blemishes" that discredit a person's claim to a normal identity are called

• Stigmas

• Taboos

• Dissassociation

• Mores

What is a group's formal and informal means of enforcing its norms?

• Social Order

• Stigmas

• Social Control

• Sanctions

Crimes such as mugging and burglary are considered which type of crime?

• White-Collar Crime

• Street Crime

• Moral Crime

• Hate Crime

The violation of norms written into law is called...

• Sanctions

• Crime

• Stigma

• Deviance

A group's usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend on and which they base their lives is called...

• Social Control

• Folkways

• Social disreguard

• Social Order

True or False

An expression of approval for following a norm is called a negative sanction.

• True

• False

An expression of disapproval for breaking a norm is called a?

• Negative reinforcement

• Negative sanction

• Positive sanction

• Positive reinforcement

In-born tendencies (tendency to commit deviant acts) are credited to...

• Genetic disposition

• Genetic discrepancies

• Hereditary dispositions

• Genetic tendancies

The view that a personality disturbance of some sort causes and individual to violate social norms is

• Personality flaws

• Genetic dispostition

• Personality disorders

• Genetic irregularities