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