Category: Crime and Deviance

Robert Merton’s ideas on crime and deviance make use of the concept of anomie. What does anomie mean in Merton’s work ?

Hamad Crime and Deviance 20/08/2020

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A. Normlessness
B. meaninglessness
C. social strain
D. social adaptation

Peer approval of your actions would be a good example of_____________?

Hamad Crime and Deviance 03/08/2020

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A. age-specific support
B. informal social control
C. internalization of norms
D. formal social control
E. positivism

According to Strain theory, ____ are those individuals who have traditional success goals but substitute deviant means by which to achieve them ?

Hamad Crime and Deviance 31/07/2020

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A. ritualists
B. ret realists
C. rebels
D. innovators
E. conformists

Merton describes types of response to a situation where there are widely socially endorsed values but limited means of achieving them. Which of his types describes an acceptance of the values but willingness to use any means to achieve them?

Hamad Crime and Deviance 14/07/2020

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A. Conformists
B. innovators
C. ritualists
D. retrealists

Which of these is not a concept associated with Left Realist explanations of criminal subcultures ?

Hamad Crime and Deviance 29/05/2020

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A. social exclusion
B. individual pathology
C. political marginalization
D. relative deprivation