Question 1

Explain the increase in the number and scope of mental disorders since the mid-1900s.

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Question 2

List and briefly describe the goals of incarceration. Identify which goal has the greatest public support today.

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Question 3

Adopt a conflict perspective and identify all the resources that insulate the rich and powerful from being apprehended by the law.

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Question 4

Choose any deviance, such as alcohol abuse, and trace its evolution from being described as a normal behaviour, then as deviance and possibly a crime, then as an illness.

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Question 5

You have been elected Prime Minister. Your first campaign pledge was to reduce crime. Using the information from the text, explain what policy initiatives you would favour to reduce crime levels.

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Question 6

Critique control theorist Hirschi's argument that adolescents are incompletely socialized and are therefore more likely to become deviant. Investigate the relationship of such premises with the structure of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

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Question 7

Briefly describe the three-stage learning process that Becker observed in his study of marijuana use among jazz musicians.

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Question 8

Briefly describe how the film The Easy A can be used to illustrate the functionalist interpretation of norms and norm-breaking.

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Question 9

A recent trend in incarceration, especially in the United States, involves the privatization of prisons. Research the expansion of privatized prisons in the United States and the efforts to introduce it in Canada. What light does your research shed on the changes in public perception of crime and punishment?

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Question 10

Research any high-profile criminal case involving rich or powerful people. Explain the crime and justice interactions through a conflict theory perspective.

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Question 11

Choose an example of a behaviour that is no longer sanctioned but that once was. Using this example, describe what sociologists mean when they claim that deviance is socially relative.

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Question 12

Explain the reasons why "getting tough on crime" appears to do little to lower the crime rate.

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Question 13

Describe the four reasons that sociologists have given for the overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in Canadian prisons.

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Question 14

Briefly describe some of the current alternatives to incarceration.

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Question 15

Research a biography of a famous person who was a deviant in his/her time, but who is remembered as a hero today. Cite events of that person's life to illustrate the claim that deviance is a social construct shaped by a specific social and cultural context.

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Question 16

Research the racism experienced by Canada's Aboriginal peoples in relation to their interactions with the Canadian legal system.

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Question 17

Explain the role of public perception and the role of crime reporting in the tracking of crime and the mobilization of resources to fight crime.

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Question 18

Define and provide examples of the medicalization of deviance.

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Question 19

Select any criminal case of white-collar crime that is high-profile and controversial in Canada. Explain how justice has been "derailed" or "steered" in the case.

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Question 20

Outline the argument against capital punishment.

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Quiz 5: Deviance and Crime