Deviance Exam2

Front 1

General Strain theory (GST) is an integrated theory T/F?

Back 1

True.

Front 2

Child abuse is an example of the removal of positively-valued stimuli in GST T/F?

Back 2

False.

Front 3

The family is the most powerful social institution in Institutional Anomie Theory T/F?

Back 3

False.

Front 4

Robert Hanssen spied for the Cuban government T/F?

Back 4

False.

Front 5

Robert Hanssen is believed to have betrayed three Soviet agents T/F?

Back 5

True.

Front 6

In Travis Hirschi’s Social Control Theory belief means commitment to social norms T/F?

Back 6

True.

Front 7

The General Theory of Crime Applies to all crimes T/F?

Back 7

True.

Front 8

In Control Balance Theory, defiance would include acts such as vandalism T/F?

Back 8

True.

Front 9

Howard Becker’s model of labeling includes the “secret deviant T/F?

Back 9

True.

Front 10

Richard Quinney argued that American society is a mixed economy comprised of capitalism and socialism T/F?

Back 10

False.

Front 11

GST was developed to consider the effects of magnitude, correlation, recency, and clustering on deviant and delinquent behavior T/F?

Back 11

False.

Front 12

In a test of “Institutional Anomie Theory”, MeSsner and Rosenfeld reported that income inequality did not effect the rates of homicide T/F?

Back 12

True.

Front 13

Violence is the main issue in the retreatist subculture in “Differential Opportunity Theory” T/F?

Back 13

False.

Front 14

Weak belief in the law, low supervision and communication in the family were reported to be predictors of delinquency in the test of Hirschi’s theory undertaken by Junger and Haen-Marshall. T/F?

Back 14

True.

Front 15

The Branch Davidians are an extension of the Church of the Seventh-Day Adventists T/F?

Back 15

True.

Front 16

Power Control Theory is rarely tested because it receives little empirical support T/F?

Back 16

False.

Front 17

Tagging refers to the process of the deviant accepting the label of deviant or criminal that has been applied to him or her T/F?

Back 17

False.

Front 18

Sentencing circles (Thomas Quinn, et al.) involves the friends and victims of both the offender and the victim. T/F?

Back 18

True.

Front 19

The social relations of production would include technology and monetary systems. T/F?

Back 19

False.

Front 20

In their test of older women’s fear of violence, Meyer and Post used semi-structured interviews. T/F?

Back 20

True.

Front 21

The most critical emotion in GST is
a) Frustration
b) Anger
c) Depression
d) Retaliation
e) crying

Back 21

b) anger

Front 22

One of the three ways dominance occurs in Institutional Anomie Theory is:
a) A class conscious political revolution
b) Patriarchy
c) Matriarchy
d) Violence
e) Accommodation of the economic institution

Back 22

e) accommodation of the economic institution

Front 23

Characteristics of low self-control include-GTC
a) Attachment
b) Involvement
c) Risk taking
d) Labeling
e) Goal directedness

Back 23

c) risk taking

Front 24

When the control individuals have over their own lives is equal to the amount of control exerted over them this is
a) Control balance
b) repression
c) control imbalance
d) exploitation
e) decadence

Back 24

a) control balance

Front 25

According to John Hagan, boys and girls raised in traditional-patriarchal families
a) Will both become delinquents
b) Will not become delinquents
c) Share the same probability of becoming delinquents
d) Will show different rates of delinquency
e) Will reject that type of family arrangement when they marry

Back 25

d) will show different rates of delinquency

Front 26

Labeling theory has its origins in
a) Symbolic interaction theory
b) The Renaissance
c) Freudian psychoanalytic theory
d) Conflict theory
e) Feminist theory

Back 26

a) Symbolic interaction theory

Front 27

Secondary deviance begins with
a) Social conflict
b) Primary deviance
c) Tertiary deviance
d) Deviance amplification
e) learning

Back 27

b) Primary deviance

Front 28

Social Learning Theory by Ronald Akers focuses on
a) Differential association
b) Imitation
c) The economic mode of production
d) Primary groups
e) a and b

Back 28

e) a and b

Front 29

Karl Marx argued that the proletariat suffer from
a) Mental illness
b) Differential reinforcement
c) False consciousness
d) The flu
e) The presentation of negative stimuli

Back 29

c) False consciousness

Front 30

The video on Robert Hanssen implies his problems/deviance probably had their origins in
a) alcoholism
b) dropping out of high school
c) mother-son conflicts
d) his relationship with his father
e) being bullied at school

Back 30

d) his relationship with his father

Front 31

Suppose you’re down and out-just plain having a bad period of no luck-and you convince yourself that “things could be worse”. According to GST, this coping strategy is
a) Cognitive coping
b) Ritualism
c) Behavioral coping
d) Transcendental mediation
e) Emotional coping

Back 31

a) Cognitive coping

Front 32

In their test of the GTC, Gibbs, et al. found that ___________ effected deviance
a) Learning
b) Parental management
c) Inequality
d) Sibling relationships
e) c and d

Back 32

b) parental

Front 33

The three scales developed by Carter Hay in his test of shaming and restorative justice theories included scales to measure shaming, delinquency, and________
a) Anger management
b) Low self-control
c) Learning deviance through reinforcement
d) Reintegration
e) Social mobility

Back 33

d) Reintegration

Front 34

Willem Bonger said the bourgeois committed crimes such as
a) Vagrancy
b) Robbery
c) Prostitution
d) Fraudulent bankruptcy
e) b and c

Back 34

d) Fraudulent

Front 35

This is the process of justifying acts of deviance_______.

a) Competitive individualism
b) Reintegrative shaming
c) Neutralizing definitions
d) Moral entrepreneurs
e) Cult of domesticity

Back 35

c) Neutralizing definitions

Front 36

This is the cutthroat mentality inherent in capitalism_______.


a) Competitive individualism
b) Reintegrative shaming
c) Neutralizing definitions
d) Moral entrepreneurs
e) Cult of domesticity

Back 36

a) competitive individualism

Front 37

This results in rehabilitating deviants by allowing then to remain in society______.

a) Competitive individualism
b) Reintegrative shaming
c) Neutralizing definitions
d) Moral entrepreneurs
e) Cult of domesticity

Back 37

b) Reintegrative shaming

Front 38

This results in young girls being raised to become mothers-wives_______.

a) Competitive individualism
b) Reintegrative shaming
c) Neutralizing definitions
d) Moral entrepreneurs
e) Cult of domesticity

Back 38

e) Cult of domesticity

Front 39

These are individuals with the power to create and enforce laws and norms______.

a) Competitive individualism
b) Reintegrative shaming
c) Neutralizing definitions
d) Moral entrepreneurs
e) Cult of domesticity

Back 39

d) Moral entrepreneurs

Front 40

Clarence Schrag argued that (Labeling Theory

a) Labels are unimportant in the lives of individuals
b) Individual thoughts are the prime cause of deviance
c) Most individuals are nonconformists
d) In the labeling process there is the “dramatization of evil”
e) No act is intrinsically deviant

Back 40

e) No act is intrinsically deviant