Which theory argues that some people engage in certain behaviours that increase their risk for victimization?
(a) Routine activities
(b) Differential association
(c) Lifestyle
(d) Social control
Criminology
An interesting idea emerging from lifestyle and routine activities theories is that some people increase their chances of becoming crime victims:
(a) by committing crime themselves.
(b) by walking in the wrong neighborhoods.
(c) by underestimating criminals’ creativity.
(d) through drug and alcohol use
Which theory stresses that the ways in which some people live put them more at risk than others for becoming crime victims?
(a) Differential association
(b) Social control
(c) Lifestyle
(d) Routine activities
Who among the following would be most likely to hold a punitive orientation in reference to criminals?
(a) sociologists
(b) psychologists
(c) religious fundamentalists
(d) political fund raisers
In Robert K. Merton’s strain theory, when people reject both the goal of economic success and the means of working, resulting mode of adaptation is:
(a) retreatism
(b) rebellion.
(c) ritualism
(d) innovation
In Robert Merton’s strain theory, the mode of adaptation called________results when people continue to accept the goal of economic success but reject the means of working to achieve success.
(a) conformity
(b) innovation
(c) rebellion
(d) retreatism
Robert K. Merton reasoned that every society includes cultural goals and institutional means (norms) about how to reach those goals. When these two dimensions lack harmony, the result is:
(a) revolution.
(b) group solidarity.
(c) anomie.
(d) collective conscience
The revival of ecological theories reflects the belief of many scholars that______matter more than ‘kinds of people.’
(a) norms and values
(b) groups and organizations
(c) neighborhoods
(d) kinds of places
The text points out that one reason the poor become angry and frustrated might be their realization that other people in society are much richer. This realization leads them to experience:
(a) status frustration.
(b) class consciousness.
(c) anomie.
(d) relative deprivation
Emile Durkheim thought that deviance rises when _______increases.
(a) group solidarity
(b) suicide
(c) crime
(d) normlessness, or anomie
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