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CRIM 249- EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERSAnomie - Answers-lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group.
relative deprivation - Answers-How well one thinks one is doing in comparison to
another group.
reference group - Answers-The group one is comparing themselves to.
means deficiency - Answers-as the way that achieved goals are blocked for some
people, but open or smooth for others, resulting in a lack of opportunity for success for
the individuals who were blocked.
conformity - Answers-accept both conventional goals and conventional means
conformity - Answers-following the law
innovation - Answers-accept conventional goals and reject conventional means
innovation - Answers-stealing food to fee your family
Ritualism - Answers-rejecting the conventional goals and accepting the conventional
means
retreatism - Answers-rejecting the conventional goals and rejecting conventional means;
withdraws themselves
ritualism - Answers-a teacher who does not care or support their students.
retreatism - Answers-an alcoholic or a drug addict
rebellion - Answers-reject both the conventional goals and means and substitute new
goals and means
rebellion - Answers-hippies, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism
collective consequences of anomie - Answers-- subcultures can develop over time
around collective adaptations to conditions of anomie and means deficiency.
- focal concerns of the lower class and how they can make crime more likely (trouble,
toughness, excitement, fate, and autonomy- used to cope or adapt to crime).
autonomy - Answers-demonstrating/telling others what to do
Albert Cohen - Answers-violence is an adaptation to anomie- induced status frustration,
gang violence as an alternative status system.
, Blau and Blau - Answers-high violent crime is the price paid for high inequality
Failure to achieve positively valued goals - Answers-first type of strain
1. disjunction between expectations (i want) and actual (what actually happens) events
2. the disjunction between perceived standards of justice or fairness and actual events-
the un/fair treatment of sentencing - Answers-first type of strain and its subtypes
removal of positively valued stimuli- lost of items or people - Answers-second type of
strain
presentation of negative events or stimuli- punishments and harm - Answers-third type
of strain
size, recency, duration, clustering - Answers-the degree of negative emotional impact
varies by these characteristics of strain
size - Answers-major or minor problem
recency - Answers-the currency of or how soon a strain had occurred
duration - Answers-how long the strain lasts
- longer= more strain
clustering - Answers-when a bunch of strains occur at the same or near the same time
- especially important
adaptations to means deficiency - Answers-conformity, innovation, ritualism, retreatism,
and rebellion
reinterpreting strain events in a positive way, "coping" - Answers-first adaptation to strain
anger/frustration, "lashing out"(the frustraton/aggression relationship). - Answers-the
second adaptation of strain
goals, values, attitudes of person before strain occurs - Answers-the fist influence
adaptation to strain
person coping resources learned in the past- how you have learned to deal with
negative situations in the past. - Answers-the second influence adaptation to strain
conventional social support: material and emotional - Answers-the third influence
adaptation to strain
Institution Anomie Theory (IAT) - Answers-- Developed by Steve Messer and Richard
Rosenfield (1990s and 200s)
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