Practice Quiz Chapter 01

. The study of "rule breakers" in society is associated with ________.

. Adherents of the ________ perspective would contend the idea that all rules and laws are endorsed by everyone in Canadian society.

. ________ law is a form of public law that governs the relationships between individuals and the state.

. According to Hagan, social deviance is best understood as ________.

. Canada's first anti-drug legislation was introduced in ________.

. Chapter 1 uses the example of ________ to illustrate the concept of "moral panic."

. A ________ is an enterprising person (or group of people) who wants to bring a particular non-criminalized behaviour under the purview of criminal behaviour, whether or not there is societal consensus on its dangers.

. Modes of regulation often included in the study of moral regulation usually imply social controls exercised on ________.

. The simple possession of an opiate in Canada can result in ________.

. A study in England by Reiner and Livingstone (1998) found a decrease in the number of portrayals of property crime, but a steady rise from the 1950s to the mid-1990s in treatments of ________.

. An example of a matter that pertains to administrative law would include ________.

. To be found guilty of most criminal offences in Canada, there must be both ________.

. In the United States offences are categorized as either felonies or misdemeanors. In Canada, the equivalent would be ________.

. The reason why so few cases go to court in Canada is mainly due to ________.

. A main critique of the moral panic perspective originally put forward by Cohen (1973) concerns the idea that ________.

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