What Counts as Deviance? (The Social Construction of Crime) — Quiz

According to Durkheim, what is the common element that defines crime across all societies?

In Becker's labeling theory, what is 'secondary deviation'?

What was the key finding of Chambliss's Saints and Roughnecks study?

Which of the following best describes a 'moral panic' as defined by Stanley Cohen?

What methodological implication does the labeling perspective draw about official crime statistics?

What did Sutherland's concept of 'white-collar crime' reveal about the traditional criminological frame?

How does the domestic violence case illustrate the social construction of crime categories?

What does Goffman mean when he describes stigma as reducing a person from 'a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one'?

Explain what Wacquant means by arguing that the penal system's function extends 'well beyond crime control,' and connect this to the labeling tradition's claims about who gets labeled.

What is 'deviance amplification' in Cohen's moral-panic model, and what role does it play in the construction of crime waves?

Why does the constructionist position not entail relativism about harm, and why is this distinction important for the sociology of deviance?

Drawing on at least four authors or studies from this topic, evaluate the claim that 'who gets labeled as deviant tells us more about the distribution of power in a society than about the distribution of rule-breaking behavior.' In your answer, address both the strengths and the limitations of this claim.