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Assignment:
Short answer questions
1. What did Durkheim mean when he said: "Crime is everywhere and always". Hint: he didn't mean that crime rates are increasing and getting worse.
2. Jack overheard a classmate say they bought an essay online to hand into a class, and jack stayed up all night and missed a party to write an essay for the same class. How would jack explain these different choices using strain theory and control theory.
3. A friend of jake's has been disciplined for cheating on an exam again, after being suspended last year for plagiarising a research paper. According to labeling theory, why would a friend engage in the same kind of behaviour?
4. The excerpt in your textbook from Being Sane in Insane Places shows the impact of one's status and the social context in explaining how we are treated (believed, judged, respected). What does the author mean when he uses the expression: "the stickiness of a psychodiagnostic label"?
5. What was the importance of the Milgram OR the Zimbardo experiment in our understanding of why good people can sometimes do immoral or illegal things that may harm other people?
6. Statistics Canada data show crime rates are gendered and racialized. Explain that statement in your own words.