Social Deviance Final
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Course Introduction
Social Deviance explores the concept of deviant behavior across various cultural and societal contexts, examining how norms are established and the processes by which individuals or groups are labeled as deviant. The course delves into theoretical frameworks such as functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism to analyze the origins and consequences of behaviors deemed outside the social norm. Topics include crime, mental health, substance use, and other forms of nonconformity, as well as the role of societal reaction and power dynamics in shaping what is considered deviant. Students will engage with case studies, contemporary issues, and critical debates to better understand how deviance is constructed and addressed in modern society.
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Criminology A Canadian Perspective 7th Edition by Rick Linden
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Chapter 1: Crime, Criminals, and Criminology
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Q1) In Canadian society,using a fork to eat is an example of a
A) Value
B) Universal norm
C) Social laws
D) Folkway
Answer: D
Q2) The text identifies three reasons for studying crime. Which of the following is not among these reasons?
A) The job prospects of criminology students are bright
B) Crime affects all of us, either directly or indirectly
C) Learning about crime is intrinsically worthwhile
D) Understanding crime may help us reduce it
Answer: A
Q3) In Canada,criminal law can be passed by
A) The Prime Minister and Cabinet
B) The federal government
C) The Provincial and Federal governments
D) The Supreme Court of Canada
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: The Origins and Role of Law in Society
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Q1) The growth of transnational corporations tends to:
A) increase the power of the state
B) decrease the power of the state
C) not affect the power of the state
D) lead to monopoly
Answer: B
Q2) Common law is:
A) the law that is common to a group of different countries
B) the law that regulates the relationships between countries
C) law that regulates access to Crown land
D) law that is available to all individuals
Answer: D
Q3) Civil law refers to:
A) the law of medieval cities
B) the law of dispute settlement between individuals
C) law that promotes peace and harmony
D) the requirement that law is civilized
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Criminal Law
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Q1) According to the text,the current test for provocation as a defence against criminal charges is
A) an objective test
B) a subjective test
C) somewhere between an objective and subjective test
D) objective for indictable offences, subjective for summary offences
Answer: C
Q2) If you have committed a crime and have used a defence of duress,you were:
A) threatened with death or grievous bodily harm.
B) forced to act based on forces of nature or emergency.
C) not in control of your mental state
D) extremely provoked into retaliation and lost self control
Answer: D
Q3) The only time the courts do not require proof of any consequences is in the case of
A) Ignorance of the law
B) An Omission
C) Contempt of court
D) Perjury
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Counting Crime
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Q1) Researchers can best learn about the characteristics of offenders through:
A) UCR statistics
B) police data
C) self-report surveys
D) victimization surveys
Q2) Combining data for cities or combining data for nations are different:
A) units of count
B) levels of aggregation
C) counting procedures
D) data elements
Q3) The seriousness rule is the practice of:
A) counting more crimes, like drunk driving, as serious
B) counting crime as a serious undertaking
C) counting only the most serious crime in an incident involving multiple crimes
D) counting only the more serious offender if more than one person is involved in a crime
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Chapter 5: Correlates of Criminal Behaviour
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Q1) Which of the following countries had the highest had the highest homicide rate in 2005?
A) United States
B) England and Wales
C) Canada
D) Japan
Q2) When studying crime rates among aboriginal people,research shows that
A) Crime rates on reserves are higher than those outside reserves.
B) Crime rates outside the reserves are higher than those on reserves
C) Crime rates on reserves the same as outside reserves
D) Crime rates on reserves are lower than those outside reserves
Q3) Which of the following groups is unde represented in crime statsitics relative to their share of the Canadian population.
A) Black
B) Aboriginals living on reserves
C) Aboriginals living off reserves
D) Asian
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Chapter 6: Feminism and Criminology
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Q1) The patriarchal family is the family in which
A) the eldest male is head of the household.
B) the eldest female is head of the household.
C) both the father and the mother work outside of the home
D) the father is employed in an authority position in the workforce and the wife is not employed outside the home.
Q2) In the liberal approach,the finding that women are more likely to be charged with shoplifting offences was explained with reference to their A) biological makeup.
B) domestic instincts.
C) gender roles and socialization.
D) economic status.
Q3) This refers to a perspective on a subject that is shaped by cultural assumptions rather than having a natural or objective basis is A) Patriarchy
B) Conservative approach
C) Cultural construction
D) Liberal approach
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Chapter 7: Victimology, victim Services, and Victim Rights in Canada
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Q1) The first pioneers of victimology and victim rights were mostly.
A) members of academe
B) parents of murdered children
C) government officials
D) politicians
Q2) How many of the six principles set out in the Ontario Police Services Act that structure 911 calls deal with victims of crime?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 3
D) 5
Q3) Which Canadian province currently has become the leading jurisdiction in North America in terms of implementing the best approaches to reducing crime?
A) Newfoundland and Labrador
B) Manitoba
C) Alberta
D) Ontario
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Chapter 8: Early Theories of Criminology
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Q1) In somatotyping, the ___________ is believed to be most likely to commit crime.
A) atavist
B) endomorph
C) ectomorph
D) mesomorph
Q2) Which is NOT true of the Classical School?
A) it was based on social contract theory
B) it advocated a naturalistic understanding of crime
C) individuals were considered free and rational
D) punishment should fit the criminal
Q3) __________________________ is used in the criminal justice and refers to crime prevention achieved through the fear of punishment.
A) Judicial torture
B) Judicial punishment
C) Atavism
D) Deterrence
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Chapter 9: Psychological Perspectives on Criminality
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Q1) Research on the association of aggressive behaviour by children with exposure to depictions of violence on television demonstrates:
A) a strong correlation and clarity about the direction causation
B) a weak correlation but lack of clarity about the direction of causation
C) a weak correlation but clarity about the direction of causation
D) no link
Q2) Which of the following is most closely associated with psychoanalytic theoy?:
A) behavioural psychology
B) concepts of id, ego, and superego
C) the cultural shaping of consciousness
D) analysis of brain neurochemistry
Q3) This is the perspective that analyses social problems,including crime,as largely a product of organizational and institutional characteristics of society.
A) Psychoanalytic theory
B) Operant conditioning
C) Community psychology
D) Corrections psychology
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Chapter 10: Strain Theories
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Q1) Cloward and Ohlin go beyond Merton by realizing that:
A) there are different types of illegitimate opportunities
B) there are different types of legitimate opportunities
C) there is no consensus on success in American society
D) the middle-class measuring rod works against many lower-class students
Q2) Drug use is most likely to be found in:
A) a criminal subculture
B) a conflict subculture
C) a transitional subculture
D) a retreatist subculture
Q3) The condition known as microanomie is where an individual
A) places more value on self-interest than on collective values.
B) places less value on self-interest than on collective values.
C) places equal value on self-interest and collective values.
D) places interest in other peoples values and not their own.
Q4) Human capital refers to:
A) knowledge about how to succeed at your job
B) talents and capabilities that individuals contribute to production
C) money that people can invest in an enterprises
D) reliability , punctuality, politeness and other "middle class" values
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Chapter 11: Conflict Theories
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Q1) A perspective that views the problem of gender inequality and of women's subordination in society as rooted in the institution of patriarchy is
A) Socialist feminism
B) Structural feminism
C) Structural Marxism
D) Radical feminism
Q2) Which of the following view(s)conflict as rooted in the very structure of capitalist society,and especially capitalist economic relations.
A) Thorsten Sellin
B) George Vold
C) Marxists
D) Chicago School
Q3) Which of the following is a theory that attempts to explain certain types of criminal behaviour as resulting from a conflict between the interests of divergent groups.
A) Left realism
B) Cultural conflict
C) Structural Marxism
D) Group conflict
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Chapter 12: Contemporary Critical Criminology
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Q1) Which of the following refers to the ways in which the ghetto is marked by a stigma that automatically devalues its residents by dint of their association with this neighbourhood.
A) Negative social capital
B) Negative symbolic capital
C) Feel for the game
D) Social capital
Q2) Cultural criminology
A) revives the ethnographic tradition in criminology and redirects it toward discovering crime as an unnecessary state of being.
B) revives the ethnographic tradition in criminology and redirects it toward discovering crime as a lived experience.
C) believes crime is understood not only as a consequence of economic domination , but also of symbolic, cultural and social domination
D) is a critical criminological function by demonstrating the effects of societal shifts towards increased insecurity and criminal injustice.
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Chapter 13: Interactionist Theories
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Q1) The key concept of symbolic interactionism is that:
A) individuals act within a context determined by cultural expectations
B) a person's actions are limited by their class situation
C) social interaction is a dynamic process of interpretation and negotiation
D) there is great cross-cultural variation in symbols
Q2) Matza wrote about American males who were young offenders.He found that they found satisfaction in drinking,smoking,renouncing,work,being tough,and pursuing the hedonistic pleasures of "real" men.A comparative study out of Alberta proved that for young offenders in Canada
A) they were more likely to be law-abiding then their American counterparts.
B) ties to peers are important, while being in touch with home and school are valued much less.
C) ties to home are important, while being in touch with peers are valued much less.
D) ties to peers are important, while being in touch with home and school are valued just as much.
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Chapter 14: Social Control Theory
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Q1) In Hirschi's theory,the degree to which an individual is active in conventional activities is the
A) alternatives
B) internalized control
C) attachment
D) involvement
Q2) Suicide caused by rapid social and economic changes that have left a society without a clear system of moral beliefs and sentiments is identified as:
A) egoistic
B) altruistic
C) anomic
D) fatalistic
Q3) The degree to which an individual has affective ties to others,identifies the ________ bond of Hirschi's.
A) attachment
B) belief
C) involvement
D) commitment
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Chapter 15: Deterrence, routine Activity, and Rational
Choice Theories
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Q1) Which of the following concepts does not fit into environmental criminology?
A) ecology
B) node
C) path
D) edge
Q2) Which of the following most closely resembles a Head Start program?
A) the Perry Preschool Project
B) The Winnipeg Auto Theft Suppression Strategy
C) Project Hope
D) Operation Ceasefire
Q3) Who is (are)associated with environmental criminology?
A) Hindelang
B) the Brantinghams
C) Cohen and Felson
D) Linden
Q4) Which is an example of effective guardianship?
A) keeping less money at home
B) providing recreational facilities in the community
C) having a cell phone ready to dial 911
D) having a security system
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Chapter 16: Organized Crime
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Q1) Which Canadian city's Italian organized crime was run independently of other crime groups in either the United States or Italy?
A) Toronto
B) Vancouver
C) Montreal
D) Winnipeg
Q2) Which of the following is a predatory/consensual crime?
A) kidnapping
B) illegal trade in organs
C) loansharking
D) stock market manipulation
Q3) Organized crime in Russia developed as a direct result of the A) prohibition in Russia outlawing the sale of alcohol.
B) destruction of the French Connection as the main supplier of heroin into Canada creating a need for a new supplier.
C) end of the Vietnam war which opened up the market for the distribution of heroin form the Golden Triangle to Europe.
D) fall of Communism in 1991 in the USSR created conditions within Russia that were ideal for criminals.
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Chapter 17: Corporate and White-Collar Crime
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Q1) Which is NOT an example of the principle that the organizational form of a corporation is a crucial feature in understanding most white-collar crime?
A) corporate concentration
B) juristic person
C) executive disengagement
D) sentencing practices
Q2) The concept of "white-collar" crime was first used by:
A) John Hagan
B) E.A. Ross
C) E. Sutherland
D) S. Wheeler
Q3) The Johns-Manville case study (asbestos poisoning among workers)is an example of:
A) employers knowingly withholding information from workers that would protect them or save their lives
B) corporate concentration
C) executive disengagement
D) a criminogenic market
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