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- 1. Multiple Choice
The Police Force is a form of what?
Crime
Deviance
Formal Social Control
Informal Social Control
- 2. Fill in the Blank
What word describes crime committed for monetary/physical gain?
- 3. Fill in the Blank
What word does Durkheim use to describe the feeling of 'normlessness'?
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following are positive functions of crime according to Functionalists?
Deviancy Amplification
Social Cohesion
Increased Employment
Egoism
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following would Merton describe as 'criminal'?
Innovation
Conformism
Rebellion
Retreatism
Ritualism
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is Merton's theory called?
Control Theory
Strain Theory
Subcultural Theory
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who originally created Control Theory?
Durkheim
Cloward & Ohlin
Hirschi
A. K. Cohen
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of these terms describes a deviant group who commit violent crimes?
Criminal subculture
Conflict subculture
Retreatist subculture
- 9. Multiple Choice
Who uses the terms 'criminal subculture', 'conflict subculture', and 'retreatist subculture'?
Merton
A. K. Cohen
Cloward and Ohlin
Hirschi
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of these terms refers to the idea that people don't commit crime because they are too busy?
Attachment
Involvement
Belief
Commitment
- 11. Fill in the Blank
Which group of people do the New Right 'blame' for crime?
- 12. Fill in the Blank
Traditional Marxists believe that capitalism is c___________?
- 13. Fill in the Blank
Who says that laws protecting private property are the cornerstone of capitalism?
- 14. Multiple Choice
What does Gordon discuss?
Labelling
Relative Deprivation
Selective Law Enforcement
Rational Choice
- 15. Multiple 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
- 16. Fill in the Blank
Which Interactionist wrote a book named "Outsiders"?
- 17. Multiple Choice
What does Cicourel discuss?
Stereotyping
Outsiders
Capitalism
Rational Choice
- 18. Multiple Choice
What term is used to describe deviance that is not publicly labelled?
Societal deviance
Situational deviance
Primary deviance
Secondary deviance
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which sociologist studied hippies to describe the deviancy amplification spiral?
Young
S. Cohen
Cicourel
Hall
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following do the Left Realists believe causes crime?
Rational Choice
Relative Deprivation
Poverty
Marginalisation
- 21. Fill in the Blank
What is the name of the other 'main' Left Realist? _____ and Young?
- 22. Multiple Choice
Who said that Criminology is 'malestream'?
Carlen
Adler
Heidensohn
Smart
- 23. Multiple Choice
What theory group do Henry & Milovanovic fall under?
Interactionism
Postmodernism
Left Realism
Feminism
- 24. Multiple Choice
Which of these measurements of crime would Left Realist sociologists prefer to use?
Official Statistics
Victim Surveys
Self-Report Surveys
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