Chapter 6 Quiz Answers Study Guide Questions and Correct Answers
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Chapter 6 Quiz Answers Study Guide Questions and Correct Answers
According to the text, which of the following populations are most likely to commit crimes?
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Chapter 6 Quiz Answers Study Guide Questions
and Correct Answers
1). According to the text, which of the following populations are most likely to commit crimes?
Ans: older teens.
2). Alex has made a small fortune hacking into peoples' smartphones and threatening to
release their personal information unless they pay a ransom. how would a sociologist
classify alex according to robert merton's typology?
Ans: innovator
3). Aubrey's mother says to her: "i don't want you to hang around with michelle. she's going to
be a bad influence on you." aubrey's mother may not know it, but she's subscribing to which
theory?
Ans: differential association theory
4). Bribes, tax fraud, and insider trading are all examples of what kind of crime?
Ans: white-collar crime
5). Chimamanda is a nigerian immigrant living in philadelphia. she was recently physically
attacked on the bus by a group of men and they yelled racial slurs at her and screamed "go
back to where you came from!" ever since this horrible incident she is nervous about going
out alone. chimamanda is a victim of a(n) _____.
Ans: hate crime
6). Conflict theorists assert that it is the imbalance of power that leads to deviance, and that
those in power in a society are able to criminalize behavior through the use of norms, rules,
and laws. this process is a form of what?
Ans: social control
7). Hiram had a lot of fun dancing at the night club over the weekend. he decides to keep the
party going on monday by dancing on the bus all the way to work and continuing to do so in
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