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PSU CRIM SOC 012 Exam 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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PSU CRIM/SOC 012 Exam 1 Questions And
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Social Structure ANS✔✔ How a Society is organized in terms of social relationships and interactions.
Crime Rate has(increase/decrease) and incarceration has (increased /decreased) ANS✔✔ decrease in crime, increase in
incarceration
What is the correlation between crime and incarceration? ANS✔✔ There is no correlation
Norms ANS✔✔ Standard Behavior
Deviance ANS✔✔ Non-standard Behavior
Customs ANS✔✔ Unwritten Norms
Social Control ANS✔✔ Society's way of stopping deviance
Laws ANS✔✔ Formal Norms
Constant Trend: Crime is highest for what age, class and gender? ANS✔✔ Young, adult men
Emile Durkheim: ANS✔✔ Deviance is Normal
What did U of Chicago find out in the early 20th century? ANS✔✔ Crime remains constant despite demographic change.
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Edwin Sutherland ANS✔✔ Differential Associating Theory: Location creates criminals
Robert K. Merton ANS✔✔ Anomie
Anomie ANS✔✔ Lack of Standards in a group
Street Crimes: ANS✔✔ Common and Serious crimes, victim and offender come together in space.
Property Crimes: ANS✔✔ More Common than street, involve stuff.
Victimlesss Crimes: ANS✔✔ Illegal crimes, no victim.
White Collar Crime ANS✔✔ Crimes by a respectable person
Mala En Se: ANS✔✔ Inherently bad behavior
Mala prohibita ANS✔✔ Behavior that is prohibited by law
Felony ANS✔✔ Punishable by more than or equal to 1 year
Misdemeanor ANS✔✔ Punishable by less than a year
Consensus Theory ANS✔✔ Assumes we all want a lawful, ordered land.
Conflict Theory ANS✔✔ Public doesn't like what's going on. Powerful people control what is criminal.
Criminal Intent ANS✔✔ Actus Reus, the act. Mens Rea, guilty mind
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