Female crime and deviance Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Biggest myths of suicide - Answer- Caused by unhappiness Caused by mental illness Impact of suicide myths - Answer- These myths cause unjust unhappiness to the friends of family of the suicide victims. They start to look for signs of what changed in the person causing uneasiness and doubt. Why doesn't unhappiness cause suicide? - Answer- Unhappiness is universal condition of life (Durkheim). Human desire is infinite It cannot be satisfied. Champagne suicide (Cohn) - Answer- Suicide ...

Sociology Clep Exam Questions and Answers 100% pass Absolute poverty - Answer- A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist. Achieved status - Answer- A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts. Activity theory - Answer- An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted. Adoption - Answer- In a legal sense, a process that allows ...

Dangerous & Violent Offenders Study Guide Exam 2|65 Questions with Verified Answers Physical assault that is perpetrated sexually - CORRECT ANSWER Define Rape What type of crime was rape originally & traditionally? - CORRECT ANSWER Property crime/stealing women from the men who owned them Know the Latin term for rape and its definition - CORRECT ANSWER Rapere: To steal About the ancient laws against rape from the code of Hammurabi - why was rape prosecuted? What were the consequences...

Nursing 4- Mental Health Exam Questions with Complete Solutions 100% Pass elder abuse -Answer-the abuse or neglect of older family members the incidence of elder abuse is -Answer-climbing. Verified cases are becoming more prominent and more people are getting charged. elder abuse demographic -Answer-Avg age 77-78 more white than black more black than hispanics types of elder abuse -Answer-Physical abuse Sexual abuse Psychological or emotional Neglect Abandonment Financial or materia...

social definition - Answer- what society believes is wrong within a community. for example, moat people in the UK would think it is wrong to have sex with a 14-year old, but in other cultures in different countries it might not be seen as a problem because society doesn't label it as one. legal definition - Answer- in our society, it is the legal system which defines crime. for example behaviour that breaks the law and for which you are punished by the legal system. actus reus - Answer- l...

WGU C273 (2022/2023) Rated A+ C. Wright Mills coined the term sociological imagination sociological imagination the vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society Sociology systematic study of social life and human society. The sociological perspective looks for the "general in the particular Émile Durkheim one of the first sociologists to specify what exactly is "social" about our individual actions and decisions Social Facts (Durkheim) "types of ...

Ethics - ANSWER-The discipline of determining good and evil and defining moral duties is the definition of Morals - ANSWER-The principles of right and wrong is the defined in your outline as Law enforcement code of ethics Canons of police ethics law enforcements oath of honor - ANSWER-sources where the codes of ethics are laid out for law enforcement professionals A law enforcement officer is seen as both a Crime Fighter and Public Servant. Which of the following characteristic is l...

Absolute poverty - ANSWER-A standard of poverty based on a minimum level of subsistence below which families should not be expected to exist. Achieved status - ANSWER-A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts. Activity theory - ANSWER-An interactionist theory of aging that argues that elderly people who remain active will be best-adjusted. Adoption - ANSWER-In a legal sense, a process that allows for the transfer of the legal rights, responsibilities,...

theories of crime (wjec level 3 criminology) questions and answers 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 -...

What is sociology? - ANSWER-The study of people and their actions. They study culture beliefs norms values and attitudes NOT MOTIVATION Max Weber - ANSWER-German sociologist that regarded the development of rational social orders as humanity's greatest achievement. Saw BUREAUCRATIZATION (the process whereby labor is divided into an organized community and individuals acquire a sense of personal identity by finding roles for themselves in large systems) as the driving force in modern society....