Deviant Behavior Exam Preparation Guide
Course Introduction
Deviant Behavior explores the concept of deviance in society by examining behaviors, beliefs, and conditions that violate social norms. The course analyzes how certain actions are labeled as deviant, the social construction of deviance, and the consequences for individuals and groups who are stigmatized. Students study major theoretical perspectives including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism to understand why deviance occurs, how it is controlled, and its impact on social order. Through case studies and contemporary examples, the course also addresses topics such as crime, substance use, mental health, sexuality, and youth subcultures, highlighting the roles of power, inequality, and social change in shaping definitions of deviance.
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Criminology Today An Integrative Introduction 8th Edition by Frank J. Schmalleger
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Chapter 1: What is Criminology?
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Q1) A theory that attempts to explain all types of criminal behavior is a general theory of crime.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) An integrated theory is one that proposes a single identifiable cause for all serious criminal behavior.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) _________ focuses on questions about the causes of criminal behavior. Answer: Criminology
Q4) The pluralistic perspective suggests that behaviors are typically criminalized through
A) a political process
B) the general agreement of most members of society.
C) the existence of shared norms and values.
D) consensus.
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Where Do Theories Come From
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Q1) A(n) __________ is a series of interrelated propositions which attempt to describe, explain, predict, and ultimately control some class of events.
A) hypothesis
B) theory
C) variable
D) experiment
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following threats to internal validity is an example of the problem of experimental mortality?
A) During the implementation of a study on violence in a prison, the prison administrator is replaced
B) During a study, subjects become tired and their response time is affected
C) During a study in which students interview prison inmates, a number of student interviewers graduate and must be replaced
D) During a study comparing two groups of prison inmates, some of the members of one group are released on parole
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Classical and Neoclassical Thought
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Q1) Bentham developed the concept of ______________, the belief that people evaluate the pleasure and pain that may be produced by a behavior.
Answer: utilitarianism/hedonistic calculus
Q2) Jeremy Bentham's __________ approach emphasizes the determination of behavior based on the amount of pleasure or pain the behavior can be expected to produce.
A) hedonistic calculus
B) common law
C) hard determinism
D) positivist
Answer: A
Q3) Classical and neoclassical theories have been criticized for lacking an explanation of
A) dangerousness.
B) recidivism.
C) deviance.
D) criminal motivation
Answer: D
Q4) The concept of due process of law developed from a provision of the _______.
Answer: Magna Carta
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Chapter 4: Early Biological Perspectives on Criminal Behavior
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Q1) Biological theory states that the basic determinants of human behavior are __________ based.
A) constitutionally
B) psychologically
C) economically
D) deviance
Q2) Which of the following crime control policies would be most likely to be proposed by an early positivist criminologist?
A) An increase in the use of three-strikes laws
B) Determinate sentencing
C) Environmental design
D) Forced sterilization of convicted offenders
Q3) Biological theories assumes that human behavior is rooted in instinctive behavioral responses such as
A) psychical abuse.
B) territoriality.
C) mental abuse.
D) intellectuality.
Q4) Explain Konrad Lorenz's view of biological aggression and modern crime.
Q5) Positivism rejects free will and emphasizes social ________.
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Chapter 5: Biosocial and Other Contemporary Perspectives
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Q1) What is the impact of sugar on behavior?
A) Excess sugar consumption may be linked to crime
B) Excess sugar consumption may lead to learning disabilities, which increase the risk of criminality
C) Hypoglycemia increase violent behavior
D) The current evidence is unclear
Q2) Biosocial theories do not appear able to explain temporal variations in crime rates.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What are some of the major findings of modern genetic research in criminology? What does this suggest about human behavior in relation to social and physical environments?
Q4) Cultural changes in our society have resulted in a significant increase in female involvement in crime.
A)True B)False
Q5) Once inherited, criminal genes inevitably produce antisocial behavior. A)True B)False
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Chapter 6: Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behavior
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Q1) The ___________ is a standard for judging legal insanity that requires that offenders did not know what they were doing, or if they did, that they did not know it was wrong.
Q2) Compared to non-profilers, trained criminal profilers tend to much more accurately estimate offender characteristics and motives based on information about their crimes.
A)True
B)False
Q3) ___________ are dynamic risk actors of offenders that are associated with rates of recidivism.
Q4) Which of the following behaviors is not aggression directed at one's self?
A) Smoking
B) Alcohol abuse
C) Suicide
D) They are all forms of self-directed aggression
Q5) Many criminals have a secret need to be __________.
Q6) Hervey Cleckley described the __________ as a "moral idiot."
Q7) The insanity defense is very rarely used in court.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 7: Social Structure Theories
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Q1) According to James Clark, the black subculture of violence was created by generations of __________ violence.
A) black-on-black
B) black-on-white
C) white-on-white
D) white-on-black
Q2) Countercultures generally conform to the parameters of the surrounding culture.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One criticism of strain theory is that
A) it overfocuses on the idea that spatial location determines crime and delinquency.
B) it is racist
C) it lacks explanatory power.
D) participation in delinquency appears to shield delinquents from sources of despair.
Q4) Social _______ theories explain crime by reference to the economic and social arrangements of society.
Q5) According to Elijah Anderson, contemporary street code emphasizes the issue of __________.
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Chapter 8: Theories of Social Process and Social Development
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Q1) Given the basic principles of differential association theory, which of the following situations is most likely to produce delinquency?
A) A juvenile watches a violent movie
B) A juvenile reads about a violent murder on the web
C) A juvenile's parents, with whom he is close, are drug abusers
D) A juvenile's parents, with whom he is not close, are drug abusers
Q2) __________ theory has been criticized for a lack of firm empirical support.
Q3) Marvin Wolfgang's analysis of a birth cohort found that _______ percent of cohort members accounted for over 50 percent of all arrests.
A) 6
B) 10
C) 18
D) 32
Q4) Social __________ theories assume everyone has the potential to violate the law.
A) structure
B) process
C) development
D) conflict
Q5) Social process theories are also known as __________ perspectives.
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Chapter 9: Social Conflict Theories
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Q1) Discuss the major criticisms of radical-critical criminology.
Q2) According to Freda Adler and Rita Simon, existing differences in crime rates between men and women are due primarily to biology.
A)True
B)False
Q3) __________criminology is a body of writings by convicted felons.
Q4) Adversarial court proceedings are based on the principle of dispute resolution.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Convict criminology tends to be very personal and issue-based
A)True
B)False
Q6) __________criminology suggests that social control agencies and citizens should work together to alleviate social problems and human suffering and thus reduce crime.
A) Constitutive
B) Peacemaking
C) Semiotic
D) Anarchic
Q7) The primary goal of restorative justice is ____________.
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Chapter 10: Criminal Victimization
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Q1) Victims of violent crime who are from high-income households are more likely to report their victimization to the police than victims from low-income households.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The actual occurrence of all crimes reported to NCVS interviewers is verified before the information is incorporated into the NCVS data.
A)True B)False
Q3) The UCR/NIBRS program collects information on unreported crime.
A)True B)False
Q4) Restorative justice emphasizes making the victim whole again.
A)True B)False
Q5) The dramatic increase in crime that began in the 1960s is linked to the postwar baby boom.
A)True B)False
Q6) The child of a victim of homicide is a(n) _________ victim.
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Chapter 11: Crimes Against Persons
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Q1) Which of the following is a personal robbery?
A) A bank robbery
B) A robbery of a gas station
C) A robbery of a convenience store
D) A robbery on the street
Q2) What is child sexual abuse and what are the main types of abusers?
Q3) The female serial killers who killed on the orders of Charles Manson were examples of __________ killers.
A) thrill motivated
B) mission oriented
C) expedience
D) disciple
Q4) Which of the following was not one of the main ways in which the old UCR definition of rape was biased?
A) It did not allow for rapes by male offenders
B) It did not count nonvaginal sexual assault as rape
C) It did not allow for the rape of male victims
D) It did not count rapes that omitted direct physical force
Q5) Victim __________ focuses on characteristics of victims that may have led to their victimization.
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Chapter 12: Crimes Against Property
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Q1) Cafeteria-style offending describes offending among gang members.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A public school teacher who got a good deal on stolen items from a student is a(n) __________ receiver.
Q3) Malcolm Kline used the term __________ to refer to the heterogeneous and unplanned nature of offending found among gang members.
A) professional criminal activity
B) offense specialization
C) cafeteria-style offending
D) persistent offending
Q4) A(n) ___________ receiver is most likely to be used by high-level burglars.
A) professional
B) avocational
C) amateur
D) episodic
Q5) Avocational receivers are usually professional fences.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The most frequently-occurring property crime is __________.
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Chapter 13: White-Collar and Organized Crime
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Q1) According to Gary Green's typology of occupational crime, __________ occupational crimes benefit the employing agency.
A) organizational
B) state authority
C) professional
D) individual
Q2) Martha Stewart was implicated in the insider trading scandal involving
A) Enron.
B) WorldCom, Inc.
C) ImClone.
D) Arthur Anderson.
Q3) ____________ fraud is any fraud connected with communications media.
A) Mass-marketing
B) Environmental
C) Mortgage
D) Corporate
Q4) The replacement of Jewish and Irish gangs by Italian immigrants is an example of ________.
Q5) What approaches might best control organized crime? Give examples of these approaches
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Chapter 14: Drug and Sex Crimes
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Q1) __________ involves the distribution of controlled substances to provide something of pecuniary value to terrorist groups or individuals engaging in terrorist activity.
Q2) The Department of Justice has told federal prosecutors to take a(n) _________ approach when enforcing the Controlled Substances Act in jurisdictions that have legalized the personal or medical use of marijuana.
Q3) __________involves escort services that advertise via the Internet.
Q4) Which type of prostitution is a legal option in parts of the U.S.?
A) Streetwalkers
B) Call girls
C) House prostitutes
D) Bar prostitutes
Q5) Decriminalization of prostitution would allow women beyond a certain age to offer paid sexual services with few restrictions.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Drug addiction is a disease.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Technology and Crime
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Q1) A(n) __________ or sequential record of system activities is a powerful tool that is useful in identifying instances of computer crime when they occur.
Q2) ____________is the process by which information is encoded so that it is unreadable by all but its intended recipients.
Q3) ____________is defined as any illegal act for which knowledge of computer technology is involved for its investigation, perpetration, or prosecution.
A) Cybercrime
B) Computer crime
C) Computer-related crime
D) Computer abuse
Q4) What effects do you think the use of DNA evidence will have on the justice system in the United States in the long run?
Q5) Hackers who intend no overt harm but just have a sense of fun are known as __________.
Q6) Do you agree with President Barack Obama that "cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national-security challenges facing the United States"?
Q7) Illegally copying software programs is known as __________.
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Chapter 16: Globalization and Terrorism
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Q1) Persons smuggled into the U.S. are considered to be victims.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Name and briefly describe the six main types of terrorist organizations, and give a contemporary example of each group.
Q3) Which of the following statements about trafficking in persons is false?
A) Trafficking contains an element of fraud, force, or coercion
B) Persons being trafficked are victims
C) Persons being trafficked are exploited for involved in forced labor
D) Persons being trafficked are free to leave or to change jobs
Q4) Ethnocentrism involves
A) comparing crime rates in different countries and cultures.
B) culture-centeredness.
C) human smuggling.
D) trafficking in persons.
Q5) Victims of trafficking can be trafficked within their own countries and communities.
A)True
B)False
Q6) _________ is the phenomenon of culture-centeredness.
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