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1.According to Stark, which area would be most likely to have a high crime rate?
A) A suburb
B) A rural area
C) A dense, mixed-used neighborhood
D) A rich, low population neighborhood
2. In Merton’s strain theory, which category involves individuals accepting the societal goal but using new ways of reaching that goal?
A) Conformity
B) Innovation
C) Ritualism
D) Rebellion
3. Anomie means what?
A) Emotionless
B) Anger
C) Normlessness
D) Happiness
4. With the adaptation of rebellion, people reject both the goal and the means of reaching the goal, but replace them with different goals and means of reaching them.
A) True
B) False
5. Social sickness is also called what?
A) Social Pathology
B) Social Geology
C) Social Gemology
D) Social Sinology
6. Which theory examines how geographical location and features in that location affect crime?
A) Environmental criminology
B) Labeling theory
C) Conflict theory
D) Strain theory
7. Who proposed 30 different suggestions for why crime remained high in some areas even when there was high population turn-over?
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Fredrick Ohlin
C) Rodney Stark
D) Karl Marx
8. For criminologists, social structure includes only the physical features and landscape of a place.
A) True
B) False
9. Conflict theorists argue that who uses the law in order to reinforce their place in society?
A) Disenfranchised
B) Outsiders
C) Powerful
D) Poor
10. What are external forces that influence our actions and lives?
A) Social structures
B) Social conditions
C) Social examples
D) Social benefits
11. Secondary deviance is continued deviance.
A) True
B) False
12. Differential opportunity theory argues that we all have the same opportunity to commit crimes, indicating that it is something about the person which determines who becomes a criminal and who does not.
A) True
B) False
13. Merton’s strain theory would have the most trouble explaining which crime?
A) Robbery
B) Assault
C) Burglary
D) Fraud
14. Merton argued that anomie occurs when society emphasizes a goal but the accepted means to achieve that goal are inadequate.
A) True
B) False
15. Who argued in the 1960s that society creates deviance and deviant individuals by responding in particular ways to behaviors and actions?
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Howard Becker
C) Karl Marx
D) Richard Cloward
1.According to Stark, which area would be most likely to have a high crime rate?
A) A suburb
B) A rural area
C) A dense, mixed-used neighborhood
D) A rich, low population neighborhood
2. In Merton’s strain theory, which category involves individuals accepting the societal goal but using new ways of reaching that goal?
A) Conformity
B) Innovation
C) Ritualism
D) Rebellion
3. Anomie means what?
A) Emotionless
B) Anger
C) Normlessness
D) Happiness
4. With the adaptation of rebellion, people reject both the goal and the means of reaching the goal, but replace them with different goals and means of reaching them.
A) True
B) False
5. Social sickness is also called what?
A) Social Pathology
B) Social Geology
C) Social Gemology
D) Social Sinology
6. Which theory examines how geographical location and features in that location affect crime?
A) Environmental criminology
B) Labeling theory
C) Conflict theory
D) Strain theory
7. Who proposed 30 different suggestions for why crime remained high in some areas even when there was high population turn-over?
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Fredrick Ohlin
C) Rodney Stark
D) Karl Marx
8. For criminologists, social structure includes only the physical features and landscape of a place.
A) True
B) False
9. Conflict theorists argue that who uses the law in order to reinforce their place in society?
A) Disenfranchised
B) Outsiders
C) Powerful
D) Poor
10. What are external forces that influence our actions and lives?
A) Social structures
B) Social conditions
C) Social examples
D) Social benefits
11. Secondary deviance is continued deviance.
A) True
B) False
12. Differential opportunity theory argues that we all have the same opportunity to commit crimes, indicating that it is something about the person which determines who becomes a criminal and who does not.
A) True
B) False
13. Merton’s strain theory would have the most trouble explaining which crime?
A) Robbery
B) Assault
C) Burglary
D) Fraud
14. Merton argued that anomie occurs when society emphasizes a goal but the accepted means to achieve that goal are inadequate.
A) True
B) False
15. Who argued in the 1960s that society creates deviance and deviant individuals by responding in particular ways to behaviors and actions?
A) Emile Durkheim
B) Howard Becker
C) Karl Marx
D) Richard Cloward