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Many researchers agree that in the United States most arrests for street crime involve people of lower social position.According to Robert Merton,Albert Cohen,Walter Miller,and Elijah Anderson,why would this be the case? How would a broader definition of crime (to include more white-collar and corporate offenses)change the profile of the typical criminal?

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Which of the following concepts refers to crime committed by persons of high social position during the course of their occupations?

A) victimless crime
B) white-collar crime
C) organized crime
D) street crime

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Which of the following refers to the illegal actions of a corporation or people acting on its behalf?

Participating in the subculture that Elijah Anderson describes as "the code of the streets" raises the risk that young people will end up

Looking back in history,the oldest justification for punishing an offender is

In legal terms,a crime is composed of which two components?

In his study of New England's Puritans,Kai Erikson concluded that

Biological factors,including genetics,explain most criminal behavior.

Walter Reckless and Simon Dinitz developed containment theory,which claims that a strong superego helps boys stay out of trouble.

"Crimes against the person" includes all of the following EXCEPT

What is considered deviant is almost exactly the same behavior all around the world.

Assume you were listening to a lecture on Durkheim's approach to deviance.Which of the following statements might well be the focus of the lecture?

The United States is the only Western,high-income nation that routinely imposes the death penalty on convicted offenders.

The old saying,"An eye for an eye," expresses the essence of rehabilitation.

The United States is the only Western,high-income nation that routinely imposes the death penalty on convicted offenders.

Emile Durkheim made the surprising statement that deviance is a necessary part of social organization.Write an essay in which you explain Durkheim's approach and point to a number of specific ways in which crime (or,more broadly,deviance)is functional for society as a whole.

According to the social-conflict approach,what a society labels as deviant is based primarily on

Today in the United States,women are arrested for property crimes at the same rate as men are.

What is the medicalization of deviance? Give an example of a behavior that we understand differently as a result of this process.

Albert Cohen suggested that lower-class youths form a delinquent subculture to gain the self-respect that society denies them.