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Defining Crime and Deviance
In this crime and deviance worksheet, learners answer questions and provide examples of various types of deviant and criminal behavior and compare it from culture to culture.
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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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Defining Crime and Deviance
In this Defining Crime and Deviance instructional activity, students answer nine questions about crime according to several theorists and schools of thought.
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Crime and Deviance
In this Crime and Deviance worksheet, students read and answer questions, including applying theories to current events and writing a response to an essay question.
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Social Reactions to Crime and Deviance
For 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, students answer eight questions about deviance by defining, explaining, and identifying reasons for their answers.
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Crime and Deviance 11
In this sociology worksheet, students respond to 12 short answer questions regarding some explanations for crimes and deviance.
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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.
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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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Chapter 8: Deviance and Social Control
For this deviance and social control worksheet, learners respond to 14 fill in the blank questions and 15 matching questions pertaining to crime and how societies attempt to control it.
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The Functions of Crime and Deviance
In this Functions of Crime worksheet, students respond to various writing prompts including examining theories and theorists and explaining key concepts.
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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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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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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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Deviance: Functionalist Explanations
For this Deviance: Functionalist Explanations worksheet, students read five pages, then complete several exercises including creating prompt cards, labeling actions appropriately, and deciding what are strengths or weaknesses of theories.
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Traditional Marxist Perspectives on Crime
For this Marxist Perspectives on Crime worksheet, students read five pages and then proceed to complete several exercises such as supporting and rejecting a thesis, completing sentences, and categorizing statements.
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.
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.
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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.