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SOC 100 Exam 2 Purdue Questions and Answers 100% Pass deviant behavior nonconformity to/violation of a set of cultural norms informal deviance minor transgressions of norms formal deviance crime; violation of norms that have been codified into law (not all crime is deviant) ______________ can determine what is or is not considered deviant. social status Biological/psychological perspective on deviance Caesar Lombroso observed physical traits of criminals, but non criminals may have same feat...

BYU criminology final exam terms with complete solutions 2023/2024 Actus Reus - ANSWER-the actual act that the person is accused of Albert Bandura - ANSWER-argued aggressive behaviors have to be learned, but we're all capable of violence Alternative sanctions - ANSWER-Punishments that are not traditional probation or imprisonment Aggravated Assault - ANSWER-an unlawful attack on another person, with the intent of severe injury anomie - ANSWER-normlessness appellate courts - AN...

CRIMINOLOGY WJEC UNIT ONE EXAM (QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS) What is social policy? - CORRECT ANSWER-Social policy consists of guidelines, principles, legislation and activities that affect the living conditions conducive of human welfare, such as their quality of life. What causes a change in social policies? - CORRECT ANSWER-Social policies change due to social change. An example of this could be the feminist movement. The feminist movement caused changes in policy so that women were abl...

28. The academic discipline of criminology uses scientific methods to study the__________ of criminal behavior. a. nature, extent, cause, and control b. history, economics, and control c. prevalence, placement, and reduction d. economics, politics, and policies - CORRECT ANS ANSWER: a 29. Marvin Wolfgang's 1958 study Patterns in Criminal Homicide is an example of which subarea of the criminological enterprise? a. Developing theories of crime causation b. Understanding and d...

XYY Theory - CORRECT ANSWER an extra Y chromosome in males leads to crime monozygotic twins - CORRECT ANSWER identical twins dizygotic twins - CORRECT ANSWER fraternal twins Twin Studies - CORRECT ANSWER monozygotic twins are more likely to commit crime than dizygotic twins Christiansen (1977) - CORRECT ANSWER Conducted the twin study by looking at 3586 twin pairs in the eastern part of Denmark between 1881 and 1910 35% - CORRECT ANSWER Male Monozygotic Concord...

deviant behavior - ️️nonconformity to/violation of a set of cultural norms informal deviance - ️️minor transgressions of norms formal deviance - ️️crime; violation of norms that have been codified into law (not all crime is deviant) ______________ can determine what is or is not considered deviant. - ️️social status Biological/psychological perspective on deviance - ️️Caesar Lombroso observed physical traits of criminals, but non criminals may have same features ...

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WJEC CRIMINOLOGY UNIT 2 STUDY ACTUAL EXAM Lombroso's Theory - CORRECT ANSWER-Criminals are born criminal with Atavistic Features which define if they are criminal or not. Criminals are a primative species which are not fully developed. Strengths of Lombroso's theory - CORRECT ANSWER-Charles Goring (1913) found that criminals have low intelligence rates meaning that it is linked to genetics. Ceasare Lombroso is the father of modern criminology meaning that he has started criminolo...

Lombroso's Theory correct answersCriminals are born criminal with Atavistic Features which define if they are criminal or not. Criminals are a primative species which are not fully developed. Strengths of Lombroso's theory correct answersCharles Goring (1913) found that criminals have low intelligence rates meaning that it is linked to genetics. Ceasare Lombroso is the father of modern criminology meaning that he has started criminology which helped made other people want to study it. ...

xyy theory (jacobs) - xyy syndrome is where men have an extra y chromosome - xyy men are said to be more aggressive and violent - jacobs argued that this was true as xyy men are overrepresented in prison populations (15 per 1000 in prisons, 1 per 1000 in general population) twin studies (lange & christiansen) - is crime a heritable trait? - testing the concordance rates of criminal activity between mz and dz twins - lange - mz twins had higher concordance rates than dz twins - chri...