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Defining Crime and Deviance
In this crime and deviance worksheet, students answer questions and provide examples of various types of deviant and criminal behavior and compare it from culture to culture.
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Introduction to Deviance
In this Introduction to Deviance worksheet, students read some background passages, then perform several exercise such as answering questions about the reading and writing about their own opinions.
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Crime and Deviance
In this Crime and Deviance worksheet, students answer seventy-eight questions, then respond to ten essay questions on these topics.
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Social Reactions to Crime and Deviance
In this Reactions to Crime and Deviance worksheet, students answer six questions about this topic. Suggested point values for each question are given.
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Social Reactions to Crime and Deviance
In this Reactions to Crime and Deviance worksheet, learners answer eight questions about deviance by defining, explaining, and identifying reasons for their answers.
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Defining Crime and Deviance
For this Defining Crime and Deviance worksheet, students answer nine questions about crime according to several theorists and schools of thought.
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The Functions of Crime and Deviance
In this Functions of Crime worksheet, learners respond to various writing prompts including examining theories and theorists and explaining key concepts.
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Explanation for Crime
In this Explanation for Crime worksheet, students fill in a chart about the seven elements of social theory of deviance. Point values are provided.
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Crime and Deviance
In this sociology worksheet, students respond to 6 short answer questions pertaining to crime and defiance and their social construction and relativity.
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Explanations for Crime
In this Explanations for Crime worksheet, students complete a chart by describing how four concepts have been used to explain female criminality.
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Explanations for Crime
In this Explanations for Crime worksheet, students answer questions in extended response form about crime and the theories behind it.
University of Iowa
Ui: Sociological Theories of Deviance: Definitions and Considerations [Pdf]
In this activity, students participate in a jigsaw activity to learn about the major theories of social deviance - anomie theory, control, differential association, and labeling. They then examine the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943 while...
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Theories of Deviance
A comprehensive look at different theories of social deviance and their variants. These include rational choice, structural functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theories.
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Deviance: Structural Functional Theory
Explains how structural functional theory can be used to explain social deviant behavior. Describes four functions of deviance that were identified by Durkheim, and the deviant and conformist ways that individuals respond to...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cliffs Notes: Theories of Deviance
Read about four theories related to deviance and criminology which have emerged within the past 50 years.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Introduction to Sociology: Theoretical Perspectives on Deviance
Why does social deviance occur? Read about three theories that are grouped according to the three major sociological paradigms: functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Sociology: Sociological Theories of Deviance
Outlines the four main perspectives of what social deviance is: social strain typology, structural functionalism, conflict theory, and labeling theory.
Other
Stat Soft: Statistics Glossary
Dozens of statistical terms are defined and illustrated in this glossary.