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  • What is the focus of the video being uploaded?
    Crime and deviance
  • How is crime described in the study material?
    As socially constructed
  • Who described crime as culturally determined?
    Resaw
  • How does the legality of arranged marriages differ between India and the UK?
    Legal in India, illegal in the UK
  • What was acceptable in the UK a hundred years ago regarding child labor?
    Sending children to work
  • What is the current legal age for sending someone to work in the UK?
    Under 13 years old
  • How has the perception of rape in marriage changed over the last century?
    It is now illegal
  • What does situational deviance depend on?
    The context of behavior
  • Why is being naked in your own home not considered deviant?
    It is acceptable in private spaces
  • What is societal deviance?
    Behavior society agrees is inappropriate
  • What is maternal deprivation linked to in terms of personality?
    Mary's two personalities
  • What genetic abnormality is mentioned that may lead to aggression?
    Extra Y chromosome
  • What have PET scans shown about psychopaths?
    They have physical brain abnormalities
  • What did the study of Italian criminals reveal?
    Abnormal physical features compared to others
  • What does the functionalist perspective say about crime?
    It has positive functions for society
  • Who expanded on Durkheim's concept of anomie?
    Merton
  • What does Merton's strain theory explain?
    People commit crime to achieve the American Dream
  • How many types of strain did Merton identify?
    Five types
  • What is the first type of strain according to Merton?
    Conformity through hard work
  • What does innovation in Merton's strain theory refer to?
    New ways to achieve goals
  • What is ritualism in Merton's strain theory?
    Obsessively following rules without hope
  • What does retreatism in Merton's strain theory involve?
    Turning to drugs and alcohol
  • What does rebellion in Merton's strain theory entail?
    Creating new goals and relationships
  • What does Hirschi's control theory suggest?
    Crime occurs due to breakdown of societal bonds
  • What are the four components of societal bonds in Hirschi's control theory?
    Attachment, commitment, involvement, belief
  • What happens if one of the societal bonds breaks down?
    Increased likelihood of committing crime
  • What did Cohen find about working-class boys?
    They experience status frustration
  • What is a delinquent subculture?
    A group formed due to status frustration
  • What are the three types of delinquent subcultures identified by Cohen?
    Criminal, conflict, retreatist
  • How does Miller view male working-class delinquency?
    As a normal part of macho culture
  • What do Marxists argue about capitalism?
    It is criminogenic
  • What does Gordon suggest about working-class crime?
    It is not surprising they commit crime
  • What is selective law enforcement?
    Focus on policing the marginalized
  • What does Reiman suggest about crime?
    It is the crime of the powerful
  • What does selective lawmaking refer to?
    Law influenced by elite interests
  • What does Chambliss argue about laws?
    There is one law for the rich
  • What does Snyder argue about capitalist states?
    They regulate working-class behavior
  • What is the ideological function of crime according to the material?
    Divides the working class
  • What does Pierce suggest about the working class?
    They see themselves as the problem
  • What is Taylor's fully social theory of crime focused on?
    Wider social origins of deviance