The conflict approach is critical of explanations that focus on kinds of people and labeling because both explanations center on individual deviants and their crimes.
a. true
b. false
Question 2Order theory assumes that deviants are really normal because we all break rules.
a. true
b. false
Question 3Order theorists argue that deviance is not limited to troubled individuals, but that organizations can also be deviant.
a. true
b. false
Question 4Labeling theory holds that observations that society's underdogs engage in more deviance than their middle and upper class counterparts are invalid because the response of society to deviance is socially
differential at every phase of the criminal justice system.
a. true
b. false
Question 5One result of the person blame approach is that, while troublesome individuals are controlled in a publicly acceptable manner, blame is directed away from the system.
a. true
b. false
Question 6The tendency for secondary deviance is stronger when the labeling is accompanied by a sense of injustice.
a. true
b. false
Question 7The labeling perspective maintains that deviants have had inadequate socialization and should be rehabilitated so they will conform to society's norms and standards.
a. true
b. false
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