William J. Chambliss's study of the Saints and the Roughnecks concluded that the Roughnecks were more likely to be punished for having committed delinquent acts because:
a. the Roughnecks were tied to organized crime whereas the Saints were not
b. the Saints participated in charitable activities that caused police to overlook their other activities
c. the social position of the Saints' parents allowed them to escape punishment
d. they committed more delinquent acts
Question 2Most of the world's people live in which of the following?
a. Absolutist regimes
b. Communist regimes
c. Liberal or emergent democracies
d. Islamist nationalist regimes
Question 3According to Howard Becker, the idea of commitment refers to:
a. adherence to and dependence on the norms of a given social institution
b. how people cope with being stigmatized
c. the amount of power that agencies of social control have in creating deviant labels
d. the rate at which people who are labeled as deviant are institutionalized
Question 4Which of the following political regimes guarantees the most rights for minorities and individuals?
a. liberal democracies
b. emergent democracies
c. communist regimes
d. authoritarian nationalist regimes
Question 5All of the following were found to be true in D. L. Rosenhan's study of pseudopatients in a mental hospital EXCEPT:
a. Although released, none of the patients was ever considered to be cured.
b. Each of the pseudopatients was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
c. Eventually, the deviant label tended to weaken and disappear.
d. The label of schizophrenia became a justification for mistreatment.
Question 6Which political regime is characterized by a ban on any activity that runs counter to executive power and is ruled by a monarch who passes power to successors through a hereditary line?
a. emergent democracies
b. communist regimes
c. military regimes
d. absolutist regimes
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