Crime and deviance overview quiz - AQA GCSE Sociology quiz

They mean exactly the same thing in every situation, so the two terms are interchangeable

Crime breaks the law; deviance breaks society's norms and may or may not be illegal

Deviance is always far more serious than crime and is punished much more harshly

Crime breaks society's norms while deviance is the act of breaking the written law

Deviance is fixed by human nature and is exactly the same in every society

Deviance is something physically built or assembled by trained architects

What counts as deviant varies by time, place and culture

Deviance is decided only by the police and never by anyone else in society

Crime should be completely eliminated from society as it serves no purpose at all

Crime is caused only by the inequalities produced by a capitalist economic system

Crime is purely the result of powerful groups labelling certain people as deviant

A certain amount of crime is normal and can be useful for society

A gap between society's goals and the legitimate means to reach them

Inherited criminal genes passed down from parents to their own children

Too much bias and discrimination shown by the police towards certain groups

A general lack of religious belief and weakening of faith across modern society

Crime is normal and useful because punishing it strengthens shared values

Crime is caused by capitalism and its inequality

Crime is just a label applied by others to certain acts

Crime is caused by poor socialisation within families

Deviance lies entirely within the act itself, whatever others may think of it

Crime is always reported accurately and recorded fully in official statistics

Deviance is the reaction of others, not the act, so who is labelled matters

Crime is caused by the strain between society's goals and the means to reach them

The national census, school exam results and job interviews

Newspaper reports, television documentaries and local radio shows

The police service, the criminal courts and the prison system

Official statistics, victim surveys and self-report studies

Crime that does not appear in official statistics because it is unreported or unrecorded

Crime that is committed at night-time, when it is harder for people to see what happens

The total number of prisoners currently being held in prisons across the whole country

Crime that is reported on and dramatised by newspapers, television and other media outlets

They always report every single crime that happens to them without exception

They think it is trivial, feel embarrassed, or distrust the police

The police forbid people from reporting any crimes that are committed against them

Crime is never actually noticed by victims, so they have nothing they could report

Control by the family and the peer group through everyday rules, habits and expectations

Control carried out by the media alone, through the messages and images it presents

Control by official agencies such as the police, courts and prisons using written laws

Control through informal sanctions such as disapproval, gossip or simple exclusion

A prison sentence handed down by a judge in a criminal court

A formal fine ordered by a magistrate sitting in a court of law

An arrest made by the police following a reported criminal offence

A parent showing disapproval of a child's behaviour

Paper 2, with social stratification

Paper 1, alongside the topic of families and households

A separate research methods paper sat on its own

An assessed coursework portfolio rather than an exam