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Question 1: Crime is: -a behavior that violates official law and is punishable through formal sanctions -is relative -a social construction © -all of the above

Question 2: Deviance is: -occurs only when someone breaks the law -a violation of contextual, cultural, or social norms -always refers to cybercrimes

Question 3: Which of the following best describes how deviance is defined? -Deviance is defined by federal, state, and local laws. -Deviance is determined by religion only -Deviance occurs whenever someone else is harmed by an action. -Deviance is defined by one's peers

Question 4: Strain theory: -is a retracted theory -a theory that addresses the relationship between having socially acceptable goals and having socially acceptable means to reach those goals -is the same as anomie

Question 5: Which theory involves ascribing deviant behavior to another person by members of society? -functionalist theory -labeling theory -biased theory -conflict theory

Question 6: What do you believe the purpose of law should be? Why do laws exist? As a sociologist, what recommendations would you give to decrease our high incarceration numbers?

Question 7: The United States has more incarcerated human beings than any other nation in the world -True -False

QUESTION 8 What did you learn in The Saints and the Roughnecks? The article "Maryland family under investigation for letting their kids walk home alone," is a sociological example of: -Deviance as a social construction -The criminalization of deviance -How norms can change over time -all of the above

QUESTION 10 In "The Saints and the Roughnecks" the researcher found that boys from affluent families were treated differently than boys from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, despite committing about the same (if not more) deviant acts -True -False

Question 11 Deviance is always criminal