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WorksheetsCrime and Deviance - Theories
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 17mins
The Police Force is a form of what?
Crime
Deviance
Formal Social Control
Informal Social Control
What word describes crime committed for monetary/physical gain?
(a)
What word does Durkheim use to describe the feeling of 'normlessness'?
(a)
Which of the following are positive functions of crime according to Functionalists?
Deviancy Amplification
Social Cohesion
Increased Employment
Egoism
Which of the following would Merton describe as 'criminal'?
Innovation
Conformism
Rebellion
Retreatism
Ritualism
What is Merton's theory called?
Control Theory
Strain Theory
Subcultural Theory
Who originally created Control Theory?
Durkheim
Cloward & Ohlin
Hirschi
A. K. Cohen
Which of these terms describes a deviant group who commit violent crimes?
Criminal subculture
Conflict subculture
Retreatist subculture
Who uses the terms 'criminal subculture', 'conflict subculture', and 'retreatist subculture'?
Merton
A. K. Cohen
Cloward and Ohlin
Hirschi
Which of these terms refers to the idea that people don't commit crime because they are too busy?
Attachment
Involvement
Belief
Commitment
Which group of people do the New Right 'blame' for crime?
(a)
Traditional Marxists believe that capitalism is c (a) ?
Who says that laws protecting private property are the cornerstone of capitalism?
(a)
What does Gordon discuss?
Labelling
Relative Deprivation
Selective Law Enforcement
Rational Choice
What do the Neo-Marxists believe?
Capitalism is criminogenic
Crime is voluntaristic
The police force label the working-class
The media cause moral panics
Which Interactionist wrote a book named "Outsiders"?
(a)
What does Cicourel discuss?
Stereotyping
Outsiders
Capitalism
Rational Choice
What term is used to describe deviance that is not publicly labelled?
Societal deviance
Situational deviance
Primary deviance
Secondary deviance
Which sociologist studied hippies to describe the deviancy amplification spiral?
Young
S. Cohen
Cicourel
Hall
Which of the following do the Left Realists believe causes crime?
Rational Choice
Relative Deprivation
Poverty
Marginalisation
What is the name of the other 'main' Left Realist? (a) and Young?
Who said that Criminology is 'malestream'?
Carlen
Adler
Heidensohn
Smart
What theory group do Henry & Milovanovic fall under?
Interactionism
Postmodernism
Left Realism
Feminism
Which of these measurements of crime would Left Realist sociologists prefer to use?
Official Statistics
Victim Surveys
Self-Report Surveys
