AQA A-Level Sociology Crime and Deviance overview quiz quiz

Reinforces shared values through boundary maintenance and allows social change

Generates a steady stream of profit for the state through fines and confiscations

Gradually eliminates all of the deviants from within a healthy functioning society

Proves beyond doubt that the whole of society has fundamentally broken down and failed

Inventing brand new technology and creative products that did not exist before

Accepting success goals but using illegitimate means to achieve them

Rejecting both the success goals and the legitimate means of reaching them entirely

Conforming fully to society's norms and pursuing goals through approved legitimate means

Biological factors, rational choice and the broken windows theory

Labelling, master status and the deviancy amplification spiral over time

Relative deprivation, subculture and marginalisation

The logic of capitalism, ruling-class ideology and the operation of the law

Primary is always minor crime, whereas secondary is always far more serious crime

Primary deviance is committed only by adults, while secondary is committed only by children

Primary deviance is property crime in nature, while secondary deviance is violent crime

Primary is un-labelled rule-breaking; secondary results from being labelled

The criminal justice system treats women more leniently, so female crime is under-recorded

Women actually commit a great deal more crime than men do across almost every category

Women are consistently treated far more harshly than men throughout the justice system

Official crime statistics are completely accurate and reflect the true overall level of offending

Escaping the feelings of relative deprivation

Achieving hegemonic masculinity

Actively resisting the demands of a capitalist economy

Gaining cultural capital within the education system

Black people as a group never commit any crime whatsoever under any circumstances

Official crime statistics are a wholly accurate and reliable measure of real offending

The higher black crime rate is largely constructed by racist stereotyping and policing

Crime among black people is caused only by poverty and by nothing else at all besides

That it was a highly efficient and entirely unbiased organisation

That it consistently under-policed and overlooked white-collar crime

That the crime statistics it produced were thoroughly reliable

That it was institutionally racist

A moral panic and deviancy amplification

Rational choice theory and the weighing of costs against rewards

Situational crime prevention through target hardening and design

The Protestant ethic and its links to the spirit of capitalism

Breaking the formal environmental regulations and laws meant to control harm

Direct destruction of the environment, such as pollution and deforestation

Any kind of crime that happens to be committed in the countryside and rural areas

Crime committed by environmental activists and protesters during their campaigns

The use of direct physical force alone applied by the agents of the state

The imposition of ever tougher and longer prison sentences on offenders

Self-surveillance, as people discipline themselves because they may be watched

The complete removal of all forms of surveillance from public life once and altogether