Deviance Ch. 4 – Flashcards
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Poor people are more likely to use firearms than other weapons when they kill because guns
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give a sense of power to the poor
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One reason why we are more likely to be killed by those we know than by strangers is that murder most often
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requires a great deal of emotion, which is more likely to be generated by intimate relations.
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Most evidence about the impact of capital punishment on murder rates supports the conclusion that capital punishment
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is not an effective deterrent to murder.
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Sociologist David Phillips discovered that some persons can conceal their suicidal wishes but carry them out with more ingenuity. He studied __________ to document this pattern of murder-suicide
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airplane pilots
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Murder is an especially serious type of deviance because
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its cost to the victim is forever irreparable.
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Which of the following is TRUE about stalking?
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Most stalkers know their victims.
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The factor most commonly associated with murder is
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poverty.
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School violence is caused by all of the following, except for
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violent sports competition.
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Which of the following is NOT a way poverty causes homicide?
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Genetic factors cause both poverty and homicidal tendencies.
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Homicides occur most frequently during
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the weekends.
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The wholesale killing of members of a racial or ethnic group is the definition of
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genocide.
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Pursuing someone in a way that creates fear of being assaulted or killed is called
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stalking.
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According to some sociologists, the extremely high rate of homicide in parts of the South is a striking example of
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a widespread culture of violence.
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The terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, were
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loyal members of a religious group.
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Sociologists think that the homicide-suicide type of murder is "normal" because, after the killing, the murderer is
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able to feel remorse.
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The external restraint theory holds that
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strong external restraint leads to homicide.
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If guns were less available, many heated arguments would result in
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aggravated assaults rather than murders.
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According to the author, one reason why people advocate the death penalty, even though it does not act as a deterrent, is because
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it prevents the murderer from doing harm to others again.
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According to the subculture of violence theory, the poor are more violent than people in the larger culture because
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the violent subculture has a powerful grip on the poor.
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According to the "Social Profile of Serial Killers," which of the following statements about serial killers is probably UNTRUE?
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They are mostly college educated.
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Gold attempted to add to external restraint theory by arguing that socialization plays a role in determining who becomes a murderer. He felt that
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physical punishment in childhood leads to homicide.
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According to Marvin Wolfgang's subculture of violence theory, the subculture upholds all of the following practices, EXCEPT for
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providing strong external restraints leading to homicide.
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With terrorism, the victims are usually
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innocent citizens
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All of the following are types of mass murderers, EXCEPT for
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murderers who stalk and torture their victims.
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The author of the text points to recent studies that suggest the cause of higher violence rates among poor African Americans is
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poverty and social inequality.
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A type of murder involving killing a number of people one at a time is called
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serial murder.
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Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why the South is the region with the nation's highest murder rate?
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the prevalence of population heterogeneity, which leads to a lack of community
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Which of the following statements about the characteristics of homicide is true?
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Women are more likely to be killed at home.
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Which of the following is NOT a type of hate killer?
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racist hate killers
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Evidence shows that the murder rates in states with capital punishment are
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higher.
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Which one of the following variables is MOST likely to be the greatest contributing factor toward murder?
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accessibility to handguns
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Murders committed by people who are poor are often
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committed on impulse.
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Regarding the racial backgrounds of offender and victim, murder
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is mostly intraracial.
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According to external restraint theory, suicide and homicide are
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both acts of aggression resulting from frustration.
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The criminologist Marvin Wolfgang studied victims of self-precipitated murder and determined that victims
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secretly wished to kill themselves.
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One reason why more poor people commit murders over very trivial acts is
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the impact of economic and social oppression on one's sense of honor.
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Research suggests that most men who kill their wives or girlfriends
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have previously kept their victims in abusive relations.
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Of all the variables mentioned, this has the most significant effect when it come to murder.
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poverty.
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Which of the following statements about school violence is TRUE?
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A school environment conducive to school violence seriously affects only a few students.
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Hate-motivated killers
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are more likely to belong to an organized hate group.
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The perpetrators of genocide are
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mostly normal people.
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Which of the following statements is most likely to be true today?
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Teenagers are more likely than young adults from 20 to 29 to kill.
