Concepts
People may look at someone and see only a person's disability rather than that person's abilities, the disability may operate as __________.
What is a master status?
Refers to when a family member tries to earn extra money, hide evidence of accidents, or directly provides drugs to an abuser in an effort to keep the peace.
What is codependency?
Analysis that focuses on the changing ways we define any particular drug over time.
What is symbolic-interaction analysis?
Research analyzing the link between crime and social class shows that most arrests for street crime are of __________________.
Who are people of lower social position?
A part of the Social Security system that serves people sixty-five and older.
What is Medicare?
What is social epidemiology?
Using any illegal substances or using legal substances (such as a prescription drug) in a way that violates accepted medical practice?
What is drug abuse?
The ways in which drugs can be helpful and harmful to the orderly operation of society.
What is structural-functional approach?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation compiles an annual publication of crime reports from police departments across the country.
What is Crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Report?
Defined by the World Health Organization, this is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.
What is health?
What is binge drinking?
Refers to subsequent offenses committed by people previously convicted of crimes.
What is criminal recidivism?
Marxist theory sees crime as a product of..
What is social inequality?
A condition involving thinking, mood, or behavior that causes distress and reduces a person's ability to function in everyday life.
What is a mental disorder?
Programs such as DARE are examples of a general policy.
What is education?
An individual adjusts to the regular use of painkillers and needs to continue using these drugs in order to feel comfortable.
What is dependency?
An assault that is motivated by antigay feelings on a person believed by the offender to be gay.
What is a hate crime?
Argues that control theory discourages crime by having strong social ties that integrate the person within the community.
Who is Travis Hirschi?
Approximate percentage of the U.S. population that has no medical coverage.
What is 9%
What is half?
Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members.
What are norms?
Refers to a violation of criminal laws enacted by the federal, state, or local governments.
What is crime?
Emile Durkhiem reasoned that crime is quite normal and performs important functions for the operation of society.
What is structural-fuctionalism?
When was 1933?
What is 38%?