SCC Deviance and Crime 5

Question 1

The 'school-to-prison pipeline' concept highlights how:

Accepted Answer

Disciplinary policies in schools disproportionately push marginalized youth toward incarceration

Answer

The school-to-prison pipeline describes how punitive school disciplinary practices — especially zero-tolerance policies — disproportionately affect minority students and increase their likelihood of entering the criminal justice system.

Question 2

Which sociological concept describes a neighborhood's capacity to regulate itself through shared norms and collective action?

Accepted Answer

Collective efficacy

Answer

Collective efficacy, developed by Robert Sampson, refers to social cohesion combined with the willingness of community members to intervene for the common good, which is inversely related to crime rates.

Question 3

Intersectionality, when applied to criminology, examines how:

Accepted Answer

Multiple social identities such as race, gender, and class simultaneously shape criminal justice experiences

Answer

Intersectionality recognizes that race, class, gender, sexuality, and other identities interact to create overlapping systems of discrimination that affect who is policed, prosecuted, and imprisoned.

Question 4

Recidivism refers to:

Accepted Answer

An offender's relapse into criminal behavior after being punished or treated

Answer

Recidivism is the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend, and recidivism rates are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of correctional programs.

Question 5

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of 'hate crime' as a sociological category?

Accepted Answer

An assault motivated by the victim's race, religion, or sexual orientation

Answer

Hate crimes are offenses motivated by prejudice against a victim's membership in a social group, and they carry additional legal penalties because of their symbolic threat to entire communities.

(SCC) Sociology Certificate Course Practice Test

(SCC) Sociology Certificate Course Practice Test

SCC Deviance and Crime 5