Crime and deviance overview quiz - WJEC GCSE Sociology quiz

Crime breaks the law; deviance breaks norms and is not always illegal

They are exactly the same

Deviance is always more serious than crime

Crime breaks norms; deviance breaks the law

Stealing a car

Assaulting someone

Queue-jumping

Burgling a house

Crime is always the same everywhere

Crime can only happen at night

Crime is socially defined, so what counts as crime changes between societies and periods

Crime never changes over time

Only by counting prisoners

Through official statistics and victim surveys

Only by asking criminals

Through school records

A famous criminal

The number of police officers

A type of court

The large amount of crime that does not appear in official statistics

They feel ashamed, think it too minor, or do not trust the police

They always report every crime

Reporting is illegal

The police report it for them automatically

As facts about every individual in a group

As patterns in the data that must be explained carefully, not facts about individuals

As proof that some groups are naturally criminal

As completely accurate and complete

Far more recorded offenders are female than male

Men and women offend in exactly equal numbers

Far more recorded offenders are male than female

Only women appear in the statistics

Because they may reflect how heavily groups are policed rather than how much they offend

Because ethnicity is never recorded

Because they are always completely accurate

Because ethnicity does not affect anything

People are simply born criminal

Crime is caused only by brain chemistry

Crime has no causes

Poverty and social conditions can push some people towards crime

When a person is labelled a criminal and may then follow a deviant career

When police label evidence

When laws are written down

When prisons are named

A group that always obeys the law

A group with norms and values that approve of offending, giving members status for breaking the law

A type of prison

A police unit

They focus on social conditions

They focus on labelling

They argue some people are born with a predisposition to offend

They are identical to sociological explanations

Crime is caused by individual nature alone

Crime cannot be explained at all

Crime is caused only by poverty

Crime is shaped by social factors that often interact

It is often hidden and under-recorded

It does not exist

It is always reported in full

It is committed only by the young