RUPP/Institute of Foreign Languages Global Studies 202

Department of English Veng Mollika (VMK)

Date: __________ Name: ______________________ Class: _______ Status: ______________

Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control (2)

I. Key Terms:
Supply the correct terms that correspond to the given definitions. Wrong spelling will result in
mark deduction.
1. refers to the system of police, courts, and prisons set up to
deal with people who are accused of having committed a
crime.
2. is the proportion of released convicts who are rearrested.
3. is defined as the death penalty.
4. is the killing of several victims in three or more separate
events.
5. refers to a crime that is punished more severely because it is
motivated by hatred (dislike, hostility, animosity) of
someone’s race–ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation,
disability, or national origin.
6. is the practice of the police, in the normal course of their
duties, to either arrest or ticket someone for an offense or to
overlook the matter.
7. is to make deviance a medical matter; a symptom of some
underlying illness that needs to be treated by physicians.

II. Vocabulary
A. Match the words with their definitions.

Words Definitions Answer

1. bypass a. to make someone feel very angry and shocked 1. ____
2. fiduciary b. to take strong and often violent action against the 2. ____
3. impassioned government, usually with the aim of taking power 3. ____
4. outrage
away from them 4. ____
5. dislodge
6. exemplary c. to avoid obeying a rule, system, or someone in an 5. ____
7. intricacies official position: 6. ____
8. death row d. the complicated details of something 7. ____
9. recess e. involving an arrangement by which someone has legal 8. ____
10. revolt control of someone else’s money or property 9. ____
11. a slap on the wrist f. to make someone leave a place or lose a position of 10. ____
power 11. ____
g. full of strong feeling and emotion
h. the part of a prison where prisoners who will be
punished by being killed are kept

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i. excellent and providing a good example for people to

follow
j. the inner hidden part
k. a punishment that you think is not severe enough

B. Choose the option that corresponds to the underlined word or phrase in each of the
following sentences.
1. Yet, the most common route to success, the school system, presents a bewildering world.
(____)
(A) ever-changing (B) imaginary (C) natural (D) perplexing
2. Yet, the most common route to success, the school system, presents a bewildering world.
Run by the middle class, schools are at odds with the background of the poor. (____)
(A) are in conflict (C) are parallel
(B) are in disagreement (D) are incompatible
3. The poor’s speech, for example, is built around nonstandard grammar and is often laced
with what the middle class considers obscenities. (____)
(A) offend (B) disagree (C) violate (D) include
4. Under federal law, causing the death of a worker by willfully violating safety rules is a
misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison. Yet to harass a wild burro on
federal lands is punishable by a year in prison. (____)
(A) vicious crime (B) blue-collar crime (C) petty crime (D) victimless crime
5. To prevent revolt, a flagrant violation by a member of the capitalist class is occasionally
prosecuted. The publicity given to the case helps to stabilize the social system by
providing evidence of the “fairness” of the criminal justice system. (____)
(A) grave (B) massive (C) widespread (D) blatant
6. What do you think would happen if groups that have been denied access to power gain that
access? You might surmise that one of the things they would change would be the legal
system. (____)
(A) guess (B) ascertain (C) affirm (D) assert
7. Social class funnels some people into the criminal justice system and diverts others away
from it. (____)
(A) dislodges (B) channels (C) propels (D) induces
8. When someone is convicted of a third felony, judges are required to give a mandatory
sentence, sometimes life imprisonment. (____)
(A) custodial (B) stiff (C) lenient (D) compulsory
9. If a goal of prisons is to teach their clients to stay away from crime, they are colossal
failures. (____)
(A) extremely big (C) painfully apparent
(B) absolutely catastrophic (D) very ignominious
10. In the absence of fundamental changes that would bring about an equitable social system,
most efforts are, unfortunately, like putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. (____)
(A) balanced (B) reasonable (C) even-handed (D) accountable

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III. Gap-Filling:
Complete each gap with an appropriate expression found in this chapter.

1. How can a legal system that proudly boasts “justice for all” be so inconsistent? According
to conflict theory, this question is central to the analysis of crime and the c__________
j____________ s____________ —the police, courts, and prisons that deal with people who are
accused of having committed crimes.
2. Conflict theorists point out that the law is really an i_______________ o____ o____________, a
tool designed by the powerful to maintain their privileged position.
3. Not able to build prisons fast enough to hold all of their incoming prisoners, the states and
federal government have hired private companies to operate additional prisons for them.
About 120,000 prisoners are held in these “for-profit” p____________.
4. If a goal of prisons is to teach their clients to stay away from crime, they are colossal
failures. We can measure their failure by the r____________ r_______—the percentage of
former prisoners who are rearrested.
5. C____________ p_______________, also known as the death penalty, is the most extreme
measure the state takes.
6. P____________ d____________, the decision whether to arrest someone or even to ignore a
matter, is a routine part of police work. Consequently, official crime statistics reflect these
and many other biases.
7. There has been a growing tendency toward the m__________________ o_____
d____________. In this view, deviance, including crime, is a sign of mental sickness. Rape,
murder, stealing, cheating, and so on are external symptoms of internal disorders,
consequences of a confused or tortured mind.
8. Thomas Szasz, a renegade in his profession of psychiatry, argues that m____________
i____________ are neither mental nor illnesses. They are simply problem behaviors.

IV. Comprehension Questions:

Based on your background knowledge and your

understanding of the chapter, answer the
following questions in complete and
grammatically correct sentences. Write your
answers on an A4 paper.

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1. Refer to your answer to the first question on the previous handout [GS202_Part3_Chapter
8_Deviance and Social Order (1)] and provide the possible sanctions on each of the deviant
acts.

Sanctions of deviant acts in…

the family the school the society

2. How do conflict theorists explain deviance?

3. What are common reactions to deviance in the United States?

4. Are official statistics on crime reliable? Why or why not?

5. What is the medicalization of deviance?

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